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Tap dancing has been a popular dance for decades. Learn tips and techniques from a dance expert on popular tap dancing moves in this free video series of dance lessons.

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Tap Dancing Combination Tips
Here are some great intermediate tap dancing combination tips and techniques to know if you need to travel across the stage. Watch as a dance expert shows you tips on exactly how to combine several exciting tap dance moves in a free video clip.

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Tap Dancing Lessons: Flap Ball Change
The flap ball change is a great intermediate tap dancing technique to know. Watch as a dance expert shows you tips on exactly how to do this exciting tap dance move in a free video clip.

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Tap Dancing Lessons: Flap Double Heel
The flap double heel is a great intermediate tap dancing technique to know. Watch as a dance expert shows you tips on exactly how to do this exciting tap dance move in a free video clip.

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Tap Dancing Lessons: Flap Heel
The flap heel is a great basic stationary or moving intermediate tap dancing technique that everyone uses. Watch as a dance expert shows you tips on exactly how to do this exciting tap dance move in a free video clip.

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Tap Dancing Lessons: Flap Heel Grapevine
The flap heel grapevine is a more advanced intermediate traveling step tap dancing move to know. Watch as a dance expert shows you tips on exactly how to do this exciting tap dance move in a free video clip.

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Tap Dancing Lessons: Flap Shuffle Hop
The flap shuffle hop is a great intermediate tap dancing combination to know. Watch as a dance expert shows you tips on exactly how to do this exciting tap dance move in a free video clip.

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Tap Dancing Lessons: The Cincinnati
The Cincinnati is a great intermediate tap dancing technique to know. Watch as a dance expert shows you tips on exactly how to do this exciting tap dance move in a free video clip.

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Tap Dancing Lessons: The Double Irish
The double Irish is a great intermediate tap dancing combination to know. Watch as a dance expert shows you tips on exactly how to do this exciting tap dance move in a free video clip.

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Tap Dancing Lessons: The Grapevine
The grapevine is a great intermediate traveling tap dancing step to know. Watch as a dance expert shows you tips on exactly how to do this exciting tap dance move in a free video clip.

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Tap Dancing Lessons: The Jazz Square
The jazz square is a great stationary intermediate tap dancing technique to know. Watch as a dance expert shows you tips on exactly how to do this exciting tap dance move in a free video clip.

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Tap Dancing Lessons: The Lindy
The Lindy is a great intermediate stationary or moving tap dancing technique. Watch as a dance expert shows you tips on exactly how to do this exciting tap dance move in a free video clip.

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Tap Dancing Lessons: The Sugar
The sugar is a great intermediate tap dancing technique to know for Broadway style dancing. Watch as a dance expert shows you tips on exactly how to do this exciting tap dance move in a free video clip.

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Tap Dancing Lessons: The Trench
The trench is a great intermediate tap dancing technique to know for old fashioned choreography. Watch as a dance expert shows you tips on exactly how to do this exciting tap dance move in a free video clip.

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Tap Dancing Lessons: Toe Pick Turn
The toe pick turn is a great intermediate tap dancing technique to know. Watch as a dance expert shows you tips on exactly how to do this exciting tap dance move in a free video clip.

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Tap Dancing Lessons: Trench & Toe Pic Turn
The trench and toe pick turn is a great intermediate tap dancing technique combination to know. Watch as a dance expert shows you tips on exactly how to do this exciting tap dance move in a free video clip.

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Summary: The rhythmic foot stomping we call tap dancing emerged in the 1830’s from a blend of cultures in Manhattan’s original melting pot, the Five Points neighborhood (recently depicted in Scorsese’s film Gangs of New York.) Essentially a blend of African shuffle and Irish jig, tap dance became extremely popular in the first half of the 20th century. The metal plates attached to the bottom of the dancer’s shoes create a percussive rhythm which could either accompany music, or be used as an instrument itself. This popular form of entertainment soon found its way from amateur street performances, to Vaudeville, Broadway, and eventually film and television, where millions were inspired by the moves of Sammy Davis, Jr., Gregory Hines, Fred Astaire, and Gene Kelly.

A recent resurgence of tap enthusiasm came in the 90’s with the infusion of new dancers, such as Savion Glover, who began to incorporate a more personal style into their performances, and essentially made tap dancing “cool” again. In this free video dance class, learn how to tap dance as a beginning tap dancer. An experienced tap dance instructor will walk you through these exciting steps that you need to know. These lessons include steps like the Lindy, the Sugar, the Grapevine, the double Irish and the Cincinnati.

About the Expert

Expert: Rene Preciado is a tap dance enthusiast, teacher and dancer. Rene has been tap dancing for the past fifteen years. She’s been teaching tap dance to people of all ages for the past seven years. She currently is the instructor of a Tap Dance for Adults class at the Jewels Cheer Gym in Richmond, California. Rene Preciado has won the regional dance championships in 1997, 1998 and 1999.