Tap Dance History (beginning)

Tap Dancing gets its routes from?

• Irish Step Dancing

• Traditional African Dancing

• 1 and 2

• 1 and 2 and Jig

Tap Dance emerged in the...

• 1600s

• 1700s

• 1800s

• 1850s

Where in the US did tap emerge?

• South

• North

• East

• West

Tap dance developed from...

• A tap master traveling to teach people

• Trial and Error

• Listening and watching each other dance on the streets

• Observing sounds found in everyday life

Early styles of tap used...

• clogs

• soft shoes

• hornailed boots

• crushed cans

In the early 20th century tap appeared paired with...

• broadway

• no music

• jazz music

• instrumental music

The absorption of what influences made tap rhythms more challenging?

• Eurpoean and Latin American

• Chinese and Africa

• Latin American and Afro-Carribean

• Afro-Carribean and European

Ideas of tap began on a...

• cargo ship

• ship carrying slaves

• farm

• dock

What African American dance was prohibited by Slave Laws (that had the greatest impact on tap)?

• Juba

• Odi

• Vosho

• Kwangwaru

Metal taps were put on shoes in the... (approx)

• 1910s

• 1920s

• 1930s

• 1940s