What kind of dance is the Dance of the Great River: tap dance
Tap Dance
Tap dance (English: tap dance) is a modern dance style. It was formed in the North American colonies in the 1820s. At that time, Irish immigrants and African slaves brought their respective folk dances to the North American colonies, and gradually fused to form a new dance form. This form of dance is more open and free, without many formalized restrictions.
Dancers do not focus on the body's dance posture, but rather on the complex skills of toe-tapping and heel-striking rhythms. Tap dance is fast or slow according to the rhythm of different dance music, and mainly relies on the tap shoes to make the "kicking and stomping" sound.
Tap dance performance, performers wearing special tap shoes, with all parts of the foot, friction on the floor beat, issued a variety of tap sound, coupled with a variety of beautiful dance dancers, the formation of tap dance unique humor, wit and expression of a very rich charm.
After years of development, tap dance absorbed jazz rhythm, improvisation and other elements, but also a very interesting movement, more self-indulgent, but also more open and challenging, giving people the feeling of light, lively, free and full of rhythm.
Tap dance originated on Broadway in the United States, a folk custom. Before that, Irish immigrants and African slaves brought their respective folk dances to this immigrant continent, and these folk dances gradually fused to form a new dance form - tap dance.
Tap dancing is a style of dance that is used to listen to, and there is even a theory that a great tap dancer is even a musician.
In the early days of tap competitions, judges even sat underneath the wooden stage and didn't look at the dancers at all, but rather listened to the weight of their percussive rhythms, and most importantly for tap, the clarity of the rhythm. A good tap dancer, no matter how fast the rhythm, how complex the steps, how light the sound, can be clear.