Big band music plays over the speakers as pixie-haired Gloria Latimer’s tootsies click and clack across the onyx-colored flooring inside Ormao Dance Company. The longtime tap dancing teacher ...

As adults, we often only get a chance to do our best John Travolta, Janet Jackson or Fred Astaire impressions at weddings and other special events. We think of “dance class” as the realm of leotards ...

NEW YORK - Tap Dance is an essential American Art form, but its artistry has been weighed down by the history of racism in United States. In an era of racial justice, one New York City dancer sees the ...

Although tap dancing has fallen out of play somewhat in modern film, it is still very much alive onstage and is one of the most popular forms of dance taught at studios across the nation, including ...

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 ...

Now here's something we don't see and hear every day: nearly two dozen people tap dancing outside. On most Saturday mornings, their novel sounds and smiles fill Riverbend Park in Cambridge near ...

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 ...