TAP DANCING (Is it still relevant today?)

What happened to tap dancing? Tap dance was known to be used to help those who were interested in making dance their career. It was introduced to those who needed to practice perfect body posture along with the dance ballet. Tap dance assisted with making you a more well-rounded dancer in the art of dance. Tap helps the dancer listen to music closely, it helped you to feel the music in a new way. Tap turned your feet into human piano keys, that would encounter you to listen and count the rhythm of the beat in music.

There are so many different dance styles out, we have the ballet, mime dancing, hip hop dance, and salsa dancing. However, the one dance that seems to have gone irrelevant, and lost in the past is the classy, and sassy dance style of tap dance.

Tap dancing is a type of dance that was characterized by using the sounds of the metal taps placed onto the heels and toes of shoes to strike the floor. Tap dance was known to be used as a form of percussion, which was coupled with interpretative body movement. Tap dance was knowingly used in a form as means of expression.

The start of tap dancing was used in minstrel shows. The minstrel show was an American racist entertainment developed in early 19th Century, the shows presented a variety of comic skits, dancing, music show performances that was formed to mimic African culture in plans to make fun of people of color. However, the tables turned, what was supposed to be used as a hate demonstration and evil turned into something beautiful. African culture used what was to degrade their culture and depict their descent in a false light, instead they made tap dance famous, jazzy, upscale and a classy dance style.

Tap dance was considered as a long-lasting legacy form of professional entertainment. Tap consist of many styles, such as, classical, postmodern, Broadway, and rhythm jazz tap etc. The most used style of tap was rhythm tap it is performed by tapping the feet and sliding to the beat, some tap dancers would use sand on the floor or a stage to make the sound more enhanced when sliding the feet to the rhythm of the music. Sound cool right??? Yeahhh! It is a jazzy dance that makes the crowds go wild at the sound of the tapping feet, when performed on stage. Who would have thought that if you add metal on the bottom of shoes, it will make beautiful music like it does? A joke turned Genius, right??? Lol

In addition, if your plans are to become a professional dancer, it is recommended you take tap classes as one of your study courses in school. It is said that tap dance is very necessary in the art of dance and will help your dance career extremely. High school student s who knew dance would be their passion and career focus are now College students who wish they would have learned the art of tap in their earlier years to be a head of the game. Its when you start college you find out that you realize you should have taken your passions serious. Instead of waiting until college, you could have prepared yourself.

In conclusion, tap is a beautiful dance style, so why has it been forgotten or placed on the back burner? When it prepares dance majors to be at their absolute best in dance. Tap is a foundational dance that has been around for a long time and should be acknowledge as one of the initial starts to dancing. Hey, so if you like the content you read, do not forget to like and feel free to send a donation tip, just click the send tip options below this story, to help continue the journey of bringing great content. Thank you in advanced.