Important People
Vocabulary
History
Tap on stage and film
100

This performer is known to have filmed a famous rainy scene with a fever

Gene Kelly

100

Cramp Roll 

Step Step Heel Heel


100

What musical has an iconic tap dance opening?

42nd Street

100

Bill Bojangles Robinson stars with a young curly haired girl 

Shirley Temple

200

This duo is known for tap dancing off pianos and sliding down staircases

The Nicholas Brothers
200

Maxi Ford

Stamp Shuffle Step Tip


200

Vaudeville performers would finish their shows with this now iconic rhythm

Shave and Haircut 2 bit

200

This movies final scene boasts over 10 tap dance pioneers jamming together including Dr. Jimmy Slyde and Sammy Davis Jr.

Tap 

300

This persons teachings aren't just elementary, they're rudimentary

Steve Condos


300

Shuffle Hop Step

Irish

300

Bill BoJangles Robinson's most famous performance wasn't performed on a stage but he moved up and down a...

Double sided staircase
300

Gregory Hines stars with Mikhail Baryshnikov with multiple scenes blending tap and ballet

White Nights

400

McArthur Genius Award winner that has been pushing tap into concert stages like the Joyce

Michelle Dorrance

400

This step communicated the tempo between the dancers and the musicians

Time Step


400

Plantations in the South banned these in 1740 to disconnect their enslaved people from what they thought was communication 

Drums 

400

Savion Glover brought this Broadway work to stages in 1996 and won Best Choreography telling the story of Black men

Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk

500

His birthday signifies the May 25th holiday, National Tap Dance Day

Bill "BoJangles" Robinson


500

The National Tap Dance Anthem 

Shim Sham Shimmy

500

This dance originates from West Africa and is the root of what we call Tap dance today

The Djouba

500

This movie is known to have "one of the best dance scenes in history" and stars big names like Bill BoJangles Robinson, Katherine Dunham, and the Nicholas Brothers

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