The serious dance picture in Chicago this fall isn`t, on the surface, very rosy. The Hubbard Street Dance Company, the city`s most popular modern dance troupe, is taking a one-year sabbatical, ...

“I predict a resurgence of sophisticated levels of tap dancing such as those experienced during the heyday of vaudeville.” These are the words of Jimmy Sutton, a well-respected tap master and ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by “Spirited,” a revisionist “Christmas Carol,” leads with tap, thanks to the choreographer Chloé Arnold and her team, Ava Bernstine-Mitchell and Martha ...

"I'm a tap dancer," said Jason Samuels Smith. "Some people would say a hoofer. Some people would say foot percussionist. Some people would say organic mathematician!" There are a lot of ways to ...

Flashes of footwork and a flurry of sound filled the Debbie Allen Dance Academy as tap dancers gathered for their weekly improvisational jam session. Dancing on and in between the beat, dancers spoke ...

Tap dance is as much a part of Americana as blue jeans, barbecue or the Statue of Liberty. While not as popular today as it was during its “Golden Age” from 1920 to 1940, the American art form has ...