Tap Steps #1
A step having two sounds: a brush and a brush back
What is a shuffle?
A step that is a brush and a step
What is a flap?
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, brush, toe, heel.
What is a Paddle and roll?
What is a cramproll?
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 can be done in place or turning, made up of the movements: step, shuffle, leap, toe-tip.
What is a Maxi (Maxie) Ford?
This step is named after a famous child dancer, who was also an actress, about 75 years ago.
What is a Shirley Temple?
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?
It's another name for a brush back.
What is a spank?
When we warm up in tap, at the barre, it's the amount of shuffles do we do before "ballchange turn".
What is SIX?
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?
It's another name for a Paddle and Roll
What is a Paradiddle?
It's my favorite fun, made up step, that I put in almost every tap dance.
What is "heel-diggy-thingy"?
Accenting a note or notes that wouldn't normally be accented; rhythmic stresses or accents on the "off beat."
What is syncopation?
A tapper known for her youthful, powerful energy and fast footwork. She is a 2015 MacArthur Fellow and has her own tap company.
Who is Michelle Dorrance?
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?