Modern Tap Dance

Modern Tap Dance
Author: Benjamin Feliksdal
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2003
Genre: Tap dancing
ISBN: 9789080769922

Rhythm Time

Rhythm Time
Author: Camille Long Hill
Publisher:
Total Pages: 78
Release: 1977
Genre: Tap dancing
ISBN:

Tapping the Source

Tapping the Source
Author: Brenda Bufalino
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Dancers
ISBN: 9781930337152

Bufalino explores the recent history of tap dance and shares stories about her early training and professional career experiences, as well as the wisdom gleaned from her mentor, partner and collaborator, the late Charles Honi Coles. As a master teacher and biographical performer known for her fluid musicality and extensive vocabulary, Ms. Bufalino's stories, techniques and philosophy will inspire and encourage everyone to find the timber and rhythm of their voice, whether in tap shoes or hiking boots, on the piano or the typewriter, on a mountain trail or on the floorboards.

The Essential Guide to Tap Dance

The Essential Guide to Tap Dance
Author: Derek Hartley
Publisher: The Crowood Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2018-03-26
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1785003909

From the propulsive rhythm of the African dancer, to the swinging ragtime of the American jazz age, tap dancing has evolved into a unique blend of cultural expression, improvisation and creativity, open to all ages and abilities. With clear step-by-step instructions, The Essential Guide to Tap Dance covers basic steps such as the shuffle, pick up and paddle, before building these into traditional combinations such as the time step and shim sham. Additional material includes the history and development of tap dancing; rhythm and musicality; learning the language of tap dancing; the role of improvisation and choreography and finally, the basic steps to advanced techniques. This is the perfect companion to instruct the beginner tap dancer and expand the more experienced dancer's technique, offering full-colour pictures, helpful instruction and essential notes on this vibrant and accessible dance form. Illustrated throughout with 138 colour photographs and line artworks.

Thelma's Tap Notes: Tap Into Life: a Guide to Tap Dancing for Adults

Thelma's Tap Notes: Tap Into Life: a Guide to Tap Dancing for Adults
Author: Thelma Larkin Goldberg
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2015-07-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781514736326

Thelma's Tap Notes presents Tap into Life: A Guide to Tap Dancing for Adults. This second book in the series is both a do-it-yourself for the adult learner as well as a guide for teachers. Three levels are offered with specific goals, the technique required to reach them, and hundreds of exercises and combos in 11 fundamental skill areas: Music Theory, Walking and Stepping, Rudiments, Ball Changes, Double Heels, Shuffles, Slaps and Flaps, Spanks, Paddle and Rolls, Time Steps and Improvisation. In addition, detailed notes for the Shim Sham, Coles Stroll, and the B.S. Chorus are included as well as a Timeline of Tap History and Bios of famous tap dancers. A DVD will be available soon at www.thelmastapnotes.com.

Tap Dances

Tap Dances
Author: Anne Schley Duggan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2012-05-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781258344498

Tap Dancing America

Tap Dancing America
Author: Constance Valis Hill
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2014-11-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190225386

Here is the vibrant, colorful, high-stepping story of tap -- the first comprehensive, fully documented history of a uniquely American art form. Writing with all the verve and grace of tap itself, Constance Valis Hill offers a sweeping narrative, filling a major gap in American dance history and placing tap firmly center stage.

Inside Tap

Inside Tap
Author: Anita Feldman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1996
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

How to be a better foot musician with your rhythms, increase your speed. Uses rhythmical concepts and notation to convey process.

Tap Dancing

Tap Dancing
Author: Robert Audy
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1976
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780394716442

Published in 1976 by Vintage Books, Robert Audy's How to Teach Yourself to Tap has plenty of pictures of Robert Audy and a female partner. At 28cm x 21.5cm, this soft cover book with 116 pages is kind of big for an instructional book. Mr. Audy and his publisher went all out. Typical basic steps sometimes get two full pages of photos that attempt to illustrate how to do that particular step. The Robert Audy Method This book is designed very nicely for beginners with lots of pictures and a simple straight forward layout. Still, it's pretty difficult to learn to dance from a book, so in at least three instances I found that a routine presented in this book was carried over to one of Robert Audy's tap dance records. Cross promotion. Good marketing skills. The book presents the steps used by Gene Kelly during Singin' In The Rain, by Fred Astaire for Stepping Out With My Baby and by Ann Miller for That's Entertainment. These three tunes are featured in Robert Audy's record Tap Dancing For Beginners, also released in 1976.--Description taken from Shinichi Matsumoto's Tap Wonderland.