In the tap dance performance, the performer wears special tap shoes, rubs and slaps all parts of his feet on the floor, making various tap dance sounds, and the dancers' graceful dance movements form a unique charm of humor, humor and expressiveness. 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. Tap dance originated from Broadway in the United States, and it is a folk dance. The English name of TAP DANCE is "tap dance", which means tapping and slapping. It was formally formed in the United States in the 1920s. Before this, Irish immigrants and African slaves brought their folk dances to this immigrant continent, and these folk dances gradually merged to form a new dance form-tap dance. 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.
history
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.
origin
Tap dance originated from the lower class in the United States, mainly combining Irish folk dance and African black dance. The form of this genre is relatively open and free, without too many stylized restrictions. Dancers don't pay attention to body dancing, but show off the complex skills of rhythmic beating under their feet. They often gather in the street to compete with each other. Its overall dance style is relatively simple and loose. Later, in the long-term development, this school was constantly influenced by many factors. For example, the influence of cowboys in the western United States, such as the influence of traditional black drums, may be the most important influence of jazz. Tap dance absorbs elements such as jazz rhythm and improvisation, which is more entertaining, open and challenging. In this way, it gradually formed a very rich dance form and became a tap dance school with a strong "black flavor" representing the United States.