Tap Steps
Famous
Tappers
Musicality Terms
How Many?
Movies/Musicals
100

A step having two sounds: a brush and a spank.

What is a shuffle?

100

A tap and ballroom dancer known for his elegant style; he appeared in many films with his partner, Ginger Rogers.

Who is Fred Astaire?

100

The speed of a piece of music.

What is tempo?

100

Shooting Stars June Recitals 

What is 18.

100

Kick Your Knees up, Step in Time

What is Mary Poppins?

200

A step having four sounds: dig, spank, toe (or ball), heel.

What is a paradiddle (or paddle)?

200

An African-American tap dancer who brought tap more on its toes; he often danced with Shirley Temple.

Who is Bill "Bojangles" Robinson?

200

A rhythm playing three notes in the space of two.

What is a triplet?

200

Tap levels at Shooting Stars 

What is 5.

200

Based on the real-life Newsboy Strike of 1899.

What is Newsies?

300

A step that can be done in place or turning, made up of the movements: step, shuffle, leap, toe-tip.

What is a Maxi (Maxie) Ford?

300

A team of tap-dancing brothers who performed a highly acrobatic technique known as "flash dancing."

Who are the Nicholas Brothers (Fayard and Harold Nicholas)?

300

The pattern or arrangement of musical beats and silence.

What is rhythm?

300

Tap screws in a room full of 30 tap dancers?

(block spilt sole tap shoes) 

What is 180.

300

A movie and musical in which Peggy Sawyer, a small-town girl, dreams of tapping her way to Broadway stardom.

(hint: we learned a combo during musical theatre week)



What is 42nd Street?

400

A step historically used to set tempo that repeats for several measures; the basic step is a stomp, hop, step, flap, step.

What is a timestep?

400

The founder of Syncopated Ladies, a female tap dance band.

Who is Chloe Arnold?

400

When a dancer or group of dancers perform with no music. 

What is acapella?

400

Years Ms. Nicole has been at Shooting Stars?

What is 12?

400

Mumble is the worst singer in the world, but he can tap dance brilliantly. 

What is Happy Feet?

500

Movement combining a brush and a scuff on the same foot.

What is a Riff?

500

A child who began her film career at the age of three in 1931?

Who is Shirley Temple?

500

The word to describe an unaccented beat

What is off beat?

500

Sounds in a Maxi-Ford Pull Back on the right and left?

What is 12?

500

A 1952 film starring Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, and Donald O'Connor.





What is Singin' in the Rain?

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