After years of development, tap dancing has absorbed elements such as jazz rhythm and improvisation. It is also a very interesting sport, more entertaining, more open and challenging, giving people the feeling of lightness, liveliness, freedom and rhythm.
In the development of tap dancing, there are several key figures-willaim henley Ryan is a great rhythmic dancer. He added African steps to Irish jig dance, emphasizing rhythm and percussion over melody. Later, three tap dancers laid the foundation of tap dancing. They were King Rastus Brown, bill robinson and John Paopao. Brown started a mature tap dance step, and his dance step is characterized by flat feet. On this basis, Robinson developed his own dance steps and highlighted the toe technique. Bubbles, on the other hand, created a dance step called CRAMPROLL, which is characterized by using both toes and heels.
Tap dancing is a kind of listening dance style. There is even a saying that great tap dancers are musicians. In the early tap dance competition, the judges even sat under the wooden stage, not looking at the dancers at all, but listening to their priorities in tapping rhythm. For tap dancing, the most important thing is whether the rhythm is clear. A good tap dancer can make it clear no matter how fast the rhythm is, how complicated the steps are and how light the voice is.
After nearly a hundred years of development, tap dance has formed different styles, and the two main branches are Irish tap dance and American tap dance. The oldest tap dance originated in America and is called hoof dance. Hoof itself means tap dancing, so tap dancers at that time were also called hooves, and the word hooves also had the meaning of black people, which indicated that tap dancers at that time were mostly black people, and also explained the origin of tap dancing and black dance.