tap dance
Percussive foot performance
Tap dance is a style of dance in which the performer wears shoes with metal plates on the heels and toes, creating rhythmic clicking sounds with each step.
The feet become percussion instruments, and skilled tap dancers can produce complex syncopated patterns.
As a verb, to tap-dance can mean to evade or deflect: The senator tap-danced around the question.
- vaudevilleTheatrical variety entertainment
- soft shoeTap without taps
- syncopationStressed unexpected beats
- footworkSkilled lower-limb movement
- BroadwayManhattan theatrical district
Fred Astaire · hoofer · shuffle · flamenco · wings · clogging · rhythm · Charleston · minstrel shows · Gregory Hines · heel · toe · stage · show stopper · brush · jazz · clickety-clack · metal
- dancesballet, waltz, tango, salsa, hula
- American dancebreakdancing, hip hop, hustle, Charleston, lindy hop
- American dancesCharleston, twist, jitterbug, cakewalk, lindy hop
- dance photographystudio shots, action shots, motion blur, leaps, jumps
- dance stylesballet, tango, salsa, waltz, hip hop
- physical performancemime, pantomime, acrobatics, contortion, juggling
tap danceballet
Classical dance on pointe
classical ballet · contemporary dance · modern dance · lyrical dance · interpretive dance
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