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How to Buy Tap Shoes

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Summary: Learn how to buy proper tap shoes with expert tap dancing instruction from a professional dancer in this free online dance lesson and choreography video clip.

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By Sarah McLellan
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Sarah Mclellan was born in Australia, and she started her dance and theater training at age 2. Her mother taught at her studio called the Dianne McLellan Dancers. She studied Ballet...read more

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"Hi, this is Sarah McLellan in New York City here at June Parody's Dance Studio. On behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to teach you today some basic and beginning tap moves. Come on in! So one of the most important things that is good for tap dancings is you tap shoes. You can find many different styles of shoes and I'm going to tell you a little bit about my shoes and what makes them different. So I actually grow up wearing tap shoes that had a heel on them. These I think work really well for that old school Broadway style the very rhythmics basic tap dancing. What happened was when I moved to New York, I kind of was emerged into this kind of different style which was much more based on the old poofing and the kind of that side of tap dancing in which everybody was wearing these flat tap shoes. I found that very interesting and these are actually hand built and hand stitched on the bottom. As you can see I had these ones for quick a few years now but once you have a pair that you really love they last for quiet a while. But very important tap plates on the bottom with a little sound underneath which is what enables you to make that sound on a wooden floor or on a dance floor. So get yourself a pair of tap shoes and you are ready to go. So if you are starting off tapping and you are looking for the right kind of shoe I would suggest probably going for the flat shoes first. You can call your local dance studio or even look it up online and find the best shoes for you."

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