slaves were not allowed to use instruments so they used their hands and feet
To dance... I own a pair and I go to a dance school so they were invented for dance. Dance producers say that they are used to catch people's attention as the sound is very different from other shoes and dance shoes!!!
Tap shoes were invented by a combinations of slaves bear feet walking across wooden boats, as well as the Irish jig. Thomas D. Rice was the first person to tap dance on stage.
The sources of tap dancing include the Irish solo step dance, the English clog dance, and African dance movements.
Sea Cruise and I want to be like you are good songs to tap dance to!
The Tap Dance Kid was created in 1983.
They make high heel tap dance shoes. They also make tap dance shoes with normal heals.
Yes, and no. Irish social dance is like tap but is not.
Tap dance came about from other forms of dance. The roots of tap dance are believed to have "begun in the mid-1800s during the rise of minstrel shows."
You can practise tap dancing anywhere in the world. There are many dance classes that teach tap dancing!
Tap dance allows dancers to express themselves and entertain others.
A uniquely American dance form, tap dance is the fusion of British Isles Clog and Step dancing with the rhythms of West African drumming (the tap sounds were used to replace the beats of the drums.) The creation of tap dance came from many different dance forms.
In the mid-1600s in America, before tap dance shoes were invented, the bare soles of slaves walking rhythmically across the wood decks of river boats combined with the energetic steps of the Irish jig and the Lancashire clog.