True or False
True or False-- a shuffle is a traveling step.
What is False?
Step shuffle switch called is called this.
What is a Buffalo?
A paradidle has this many sounds.
What is 4?
Demonstrate a traveling tap step!
Good Job! (Maybe...)
Modern tap shoes were invented in this year.
A. 1890
B.1900
C.1920
D.1950
What is C. 1920?
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Ms. Tearzah was this age when she got on her first professional Tap Company.
What is 12 Years old?
A step that has 3 sounds is called this.
What is a Triplet?
A flap cramp roll has this many sounds.
What is 5?
Describe a wing.
Scrape out with the sides of your toe taps and spank step (pullback) inward.
This Broadway show is a showcase of street/rhythm tap dance
A. Tap dance kid
B. Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk
C. StompD. 42ns Street
What is B. Brink in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk.
Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk is a musical revue telling the story, through tap, of black history from slavery to the present. The musical numbers are presented along with supertitles, projected images and videotapes and with continuing commentary.
True or False - you put your weight on a stomp.
What is True!
Brush forward with your heel is called this.
What is a scuff?
A wing has this many sounds?
What is 3?
Name and demonstrate a step that changes weight.
ex- shuffle hop step
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Name one famous tap dancer.
Ms. Tearzah will let you know on this one :)
True or False-- The tap dancers national anthem is known as the Shim Sham.
What is True
Pull on one foot and land on the opposite foot is called this.
What is a grab off (switching pullback)?
A double pickup has this many sounds?
What is 4?
Demonstrate one of the exercises that was in our recital dance!
Show me!
This Person is not a famous tap dancer
A. Anna Pavlova
B.Ginger Rogers
C. Bo Jangles
D. Fred AstaireWhat is A. Anna Pavlova?
She was a famous Russian Prima Ballerina.
True or False-- Wings would be counted "and a one, and a two, and a three, etc."
What is True?
Stomp, hop shuffle step falap step is called this.
What is a Triple Time Step?
A triple time step has this many sounds?
What is 8?
Demonstrate a military time step.
Show me the correct step(s).
Modern tap dancing originated in this continent.
A. Australia
B. Europe
C. Africa
D. North America
What is D. North America?
Tap dance originated in the United States in the early 19th century at the crossroads of African and Irish American dance forms. When slave owners took away traditional African percussion instruments, slaves turned to percussive dancing to express themselves and retain their cultural identities.