Tap Steps
A step having two sounds: a brush and a step.
What is a flap?
A tap and ballroom dancer known for his elegant style; he appeared in many films with his partner, Ginger Rogers.
Who is Fred Astaire?
The speed of a piece of music.
What is tempo?
The founder of Syncopated Ladies, a female tap dance band.
Who is Chloe Arnold?
A 1952 film starring Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, and Donald O'Connor.
What is Singin' in the Rain?
A step having four sounds: dig, spank, toe (or ball), heel.
What is a paradiddle (or paddle & roll)?
An African-American tap dancer who brought tap more on its toes; he often danced with Shirley Temple.
Who is Bill "Bojangles" Robinson?
A rhythm playing three notes in the space of two.
What is a triplet?
A tapper who gained fame from her collaborations with Postmodern Jukebox.
Who is Sarah Reich?
A movie and musical in which Peggy Sawyer, a small-town girl, dreams of tapping her way to Broadway stardom.
What is 42nd Street?
A step that normally travels forward or backward, made up of the movements: shuffle, hop, cross.
What is an Irish?
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)?
The pattern or arrangement of musical beats and silence.
What is rhythm?
A child prodigy who starred in The Tap Dance Kid on Broadway and won a Tony Award for Best Choreography for Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk.
Who is Savion Glover?
A Cole Porter movie and musical that is a retelling of Shakespeare’s The Taming Of The Shrew. The movie starred Ann Miller.
What is Kiss Me, Kate?
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?
A tapper known as the "Queen of Tap Dancing" on the silver screen; she starred in several movies during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Who is Eleanor Powell?
A rhythm that gives unequal weight to beats of the same value; "stressing the upbeat." Often thought of as more laid back.
What is swing rhythm?
A performer who was in over 40 movies, including White Nights with Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Who is Gregory Hines?
A 1921 musical that was adapted and re-staged in 2016 with choreography by Savion Glover.
What is Shuffle Along?
A sideward's motion of the feet incorporating an outward and inward scrape with the outside of the foot, then the inside.
What is a Wing?
A tapper who revolutionized tap by playing with rhythms and offbeats; he is often called the "Father of Rhythm Tap."
Who is John Bubbles?
Accenting a note or notes that wouldn't normally be accented; rhythmic stresses or accents on the "off beat."
What is syncopation?
Who set the record for having the most tap sounds in one minute (1,163) on June 23, 2011?
Who is Anthony Morigerato?
A 1943 film that featured many famous tappers, most notably the Nicholas Brothers, performing what many consider the greatest musical dance number ever filmed.
What is Stormy Weather?