The History of Tap Dance

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Hi, this is Sarah McLellan in New York City here at June Parody's Dance Studio. On behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to teach you today some basic and beginning tap moves. Come on in. So I'm going to give you a little bit of a history about tap dancing. Today everyone thinks of tap dancing as pretty much the style dancing that came from Broadway and the movies but it actually came from the dance styles in Northern England, kind of clunk dancing. They use to put a couple of pennies on the bottom of there shoes to make sounds. It also came from Irish jigs, and Scottish wheels and things like that. But it even has ties back to African dancing in kind of like stooping and Picasso kind of dancing. So tap dancing today was definitely develop from those things in the 19th century became popular in the Untied States but it is definitely popular in many other parts of the world. So tap dancing today is definitely came a long way from where it came from. You can see it in moves, they are even using it in animation and in moves like Happy Feet and the Polar Express.

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