Well, there's the actual shoe of course, the soundboard, and the taps.
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You can tap in a tap shoe, you can do jazz in your jazz shoe, and you can do character, classical, or muscial or play ballet. You can even do pointe in ballet. In jazz shoes you can also do lyrical!
Well ballet is danced to slow music. It also has to be precise and accurate. Tap can be performed to slow or fast music. When you Tap dance you have to wear special tap shoes. These have a piece of metal on the bottom of the shoe called a tap, this is situated on the toe end of the shoe. When you move higher up the grades the will get a pair of shoes which have a tap on the bottom at the heel end of the shoe. When you dance this special shoe makes a tap sound. Put steps together and this makes a whole load of sounds which it made right can sound great and almost like a song. So that is the difference between Tap and Ballet.
Depending on where you live, you can get them at different dance stores. Depending on your age, from ages 6-9, you can get them at a shoe store.
You can get Jazz shoes all over, if your a person who has danced before and you know you shoe size for a ballet, jazz or tap shoe then you could easily buy online on... -eBay -amazon -zappos -discount dance But I would not advise buying jazz shoes online if you do not know you DANCE SHOE SIZE. Your regular shoe size can be much different from a dance shoe. For example I have a size 3 u.s but in jazz shoes I'm a size 6! Big difference! Any way sometime you can buy your dance shoes at your studio or at another studio (just call the studio and ask you never know!) another place you can get them is at (surprisingly) Pay less shoe store they have a small selection of ballet, tap and jazz shoes (only in black leather though). NOTE: By far my favorite dance shoe brand is Capezio Hope this helped!
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You can tap in a tap shoe, you can do jazz in your jazz shoe, and you can do character, classical, or muscial or play ballet. You can even do pointe in ballet. In jazz shoes you can also do lyrical!
Well ballet is danced to slow music. It also has to be precise and accurate. Tap can be performed to slow or fast music. When you Tap dance you have to wear special tap shoes. These have a piece of metal on the bottom of the shoe called a tap, this is situated on the toe end of the shoe. When you move higher up the grades the will get a pair of shoes which have a tap on the bottom at the heel end of the shoe. When you dance this special shoe makes a tap sound. Put steps together and this makes a whole load of sounds which it made right can sound great and almost like a song. So that is the difference between Tap and Ballet.
Depending on where you live, you can get them at different dance stores. Depending on your age, from ages 6-9, you can get them at a shoe store.
The sources of tap dancing include the Irish solo step dance, the English clog dance, and African dance movements.
You can get Jazz shoes all over, if your a person who has danced before and you know you shoe size for a ballet, jazz or tap shoe then you could easily buy online on... -eBay -amazon -zappos -discount dance But I would not advise buying jazz shoes online if you do not know you DANCE SHOE SIZE. Your regular shoe size can be much different from a dance shoe. For example I have a size 3 u.s but in jazz shoes I'm a size 6! Big difference! Any way sometime you can buy your dance shoes at your studio or at another studio (just call the studio and ask you never know!) another place you can get them is at (surprisingly) Pay less shoe store they have a small selection of ballet, tap and jazz shoes (only in black leather though). NOTE: By far my favorite dance shoe brand is Capezio Hope this helped!
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!