Tap Dance Study - Dance Class 1&2

This style of tap emphasizes complex footwork by using syncopated rhythms, they are responsible for most of the innovations in tap.

• Tap Dance

• Hoofers

• Class Acts

• Flash Acts

___ _____ is all about footwork and rhythm.

• Tap Dance

• Hoofers

• Class Acts

• Flash Acts

Combines tap dance and acrobatics.

• Tap Dance

• Hoofers

• Class Acts

• Flash Acts

Emphasizes whole body movements.

• Tap Dance

• Hoofers

• Class Acts

• Flash Acts

This tap dancer rose to fame at the age of six years old . She was known as a Class Act and for dancing with Bill Bojangles Robinson.

• Shirley Temple

• The Nicholas Brothers

• Ginger Rodgers

• Gene Kelly

This tap dancer is a Class Act. She starred in the Broadway show "Girl Crazy". When the show closed she moved to Hollywood and played Fred Astaire's love interest in many shows.

• Savion Glover

• Bill Bojangles Robinson

• Ginger Rogers

• Fred Astaire

This tap dancer was known as a Hoofer. He starred in the movie "Tap" and won a Tony award for his performance in "Jelly's Last Jam".

• Fred Astaire

• Gregory Hines

• Ginger Rogers

• Bill Bojangles Robinson

This tap dancer starred in the movie "Happy Feet" as Mumble. He is a Hoofer.

• Shirley Temple

• Savion Glover

• The Nicholas Brothers

• Gene Kelly

This tap dancer was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer, and actor. He broke into Broadway in 1917 in "Over The Top". He was a Class Act tap dancer best known for dancing with Ginger Rogers.

• Shirley Temple

• Ginger Rogers

• Bill Bojangles Robinson

• Fred Astaire

This tap dancer is a Class Act. He wanted to be a professional athlete but his mother redirected him. He starred in the movie "Singing In The Rain".

• Gene Kelly

• Ginger Rogers

• Gregory Hines

• Savion Glover