Come and meet those dancing feet… no, not the tapping toes of the classic musical 42nd Street, but a different street entirely in Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe’s world premiere tap dance revue ...

The Tap Dance Kid (1983) now strutting fitfully at Ensemble Theatre, has a basic problem at its core in that the title character is not the main focus of the story. What derails Tap Dance is that ...

What happens when a child’s dream clashes with a parent’s vision for the future? “The Tap Dance Kid,” on stage at Houston’s Ensemble Theatre, brings that question to life through electrifying ...

Jay Gatsby lives in West Egg. Daisy Buchanan lives in East Egg. And the new musical about them that opened Thursday at the Broadway Theatre lays a big egg. It’s debatable whether one of American ...

Diane Davisson knew she had to tap more than her feet to preserve the legacy of tap dancing. The producer, choreographer and dancer tapped into the movement’s history, as well as on the shoulders of ...

THINGS HE WANTED THE WORLD TO UNDERSTAND, THE GIFT AND THE VALUE OF BLACK BRILLIANCE. HEY. TELLING STORIES ABOUT BLACK HISTORY THROUGH MUSIC AND TAP DANCE. BREANA ALI HAS BEEN TAP DANCING SINCE SHE ...

For their Christmas offerings, most dance companies wade into the fertile ground of "The Nutcracker" or forget about the whole season. For the past six years, Anacrusis Modern Tap Dance has skipped ...

Join ATDF for a special Awards Ceremony featuring surprise guests, film clips, and live performances honoring the recipients of the 2024 and 2025 Hoofer Awards, Tap Preservation Awards, and ...

Musical theater dance is the type of dancing—usually ballet, jazz, hip-hop, or tap—used in choreographed sequences for musical theater. Once upon a time, in the Golden Age of Broadway, there were two ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! A three-day tap-dancing festival in Philadelphia commemorates the art form’s rich ...

Tap dance is as much a part of Americana as blue jeans, barbecue or the Statue of Liberty. While not as popular today as it was during its “Golden Age” from 1920 to 1940, the American art form has ...