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.