Video: History of Tap Dancing

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Learn about the history of tap dancing in this free video lesson for beginning tap dance.

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bagelt Aug 02, 2008
pretty good videos for tap dancing beginners!!!
bagelt Aug 02, 2008
pretty good videos for tap dancing beginners!!!

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My name is Sue Fletcher I'm going to be showing you some basics of tap dancing beginning level tap dancing I'm going to show you things from how to how and where to buy shoes to some basic steps. I've been tap dancing for over 2 decades and I've been teaching for about 16 years I'm originally from Seattle which is from where I learn to tap dance. And I taught at the University of Washington I taught 2 different private dance schools as well it's something I really really enjoy. I hope you do to tap dancing is a really incredible form of dance it's kind of rare to find now a days what with you know like hip hop and other types of dance kind of taking over. But tap is really kind of fun and interesting and exciting and it's also one of the oldest forms of a dance that originated in America. It's been around for 130 years and it started off in the late 1800's mostly on the East coast of the United States basically, what kinds would do is chew up pieces of gum and stick them to the bottle caps and stick the bottle caps to the bottom of there shoes to make sounds. And it just kind of evolved from there they started making actually taps for tap shoes out of nickel and they still do that and it's just become quit of interesting and fascinating form of dance and became very very popular in the 1930's during the whole vauldville thing. I don't think it's a dying art I love tap I want to do it for the rest of my life I hope you enjoy it.

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