TAP DANCE

Tap-dancing lessons have slapped percussive meant, is a kind of modern dance style. Formed in the 1920s in the United States. When Irish immigrants and African slaves their folk dance to the United States, fuses gradually formed a new dance forms. This dance form is more open freedom, not many formal restrictions. Dancers does not pay attention to body movements, but focuses on tiptoe and heel hit rhythm of complex skills.

introduction

summary

Tap show, performers dressed in special tap shoes for use in each place, feet on the floor friction close-hauled, send all sound, plus the dancers in tap all sorts of graceful poise, forming tap peculiar humor, witty and strikingly expressive a charm.

Through several years' development, the tap absorbed jazz rhythm, improvisational performance and other elements, also is a kind of very interesting game, more ZiYuXing, also more open and challenging, the sense that gives a person is light, lively, freedom and rhythm is dye-in-the-wood.

Sources from the United States Broadway, tap dance of a kind of folk customs. The TAP is slapping buckle strike means, its formal formation is in 20 years of the United States. Before this, Irish immigrants and African slaves their folk dance brought to the immigration continent, these folk dance combined gradually formed a new dance forms - tap.

In both tap in the development process of several critical figures - WILLIAM HENRY LANE is a great rhythm dancer, he put African dance to join Irish jig, emphasize rhythm and blow than melody. Thereafter, and mainly have three tap laid the foundation of the tap, they were a KING RASTUS time, BILL ROBINSON, JOHN BUBBLES. This time the harnessing of mature turbo-charged, his steps characteristic is much flat leg shapes, subsequent ROBINSON on this basis he developed his own moves, highlighted tiptoe technology. And BUBBLES are created called CRAMPROLL dance, his steps characteristic is at the same time using tiptoe and heel.

This is a kind of is used to listen to the dance style, even have a saying that a great dancer is a musician tap. In the early years of the tap game, the judges even sit wooden stage below, fundamental watch dancer, but hear they fight rhythm priorities; to tap, it is important to rhythm is clear. A good person, whether tap of how fast rhythm, more complex dance, more light voice, can do it clearly.

history

Tap after nearly 100 years development, formed the different styles, most of the two branches, is Irish style tap and American style tap. The oldest tap to calculate originated in the native American, called HOOFING the genre. HOOFING itself has in tap, dancing mean, so when the tap dancing HOOFER, who is also called HOOFER this word and black meaning, this shows that when the tap for black, also explains tap dance with black yuanyuan.

The origin

The lower people tap originated in the U.S., mainly is the Irish folk dance and dance black African union. This genre form is more open freedom, not many stylization restrictions. Dancers does not pay attention to body movements, but showing off the complex skills feet hit rhythm, they often gather in street each other sports. Its overall dance wind comparative guileless, lax. Later in the long-term development, this genre ceaselessly by many factors. For example American cowboy impact, as black traditional auspicious drum rhythms of influence to wait a moment, one of the most important influence may be the jazz, tap the influence of music rhythm, absorb the jazz improvisation and other elements, more ZiYuXing, also more open and challenging. Thus, gradually formed abundant dance forms, and become the representative of American, "black taste" thick tap genre.

classification

TAP DANCE

American tap, in America, national large fusion Irish dance and softness of traditional African nation music and the sacrifice of original dance union, to form development. A free easy to form, the pursuit of rhythm of complex expression. As Africa national art a new ascension, American Negro TAP inherited nature IS mixed in the primitive that freedom, "TAP IS NOT MAP" has always been as the essence of American TAP by carry on. Bill Robinson Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, in the development of tap plays a tremendous role. In 1989, is in his birthday on May 25, set the international in tap section of the date. One of the great commemorative meaning is self-evident.

In Hollywood, American tap dance slice era as a big screen and the most charming dance part, be familiar with people from all over the world, let American tap and develop to a peak. From cute little Shirley, to Hollywood two big names commissioned Fred Astaire (Fred Astaire) and Gene Kelly (Gene Kelly from), they in the film in tap dance performances, fan drunk billions of people. Famous film is a gene kelly's "singing IN THE RAIN (SINGIN IN THE RAIN)", "AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (AN)"; IN PARIS as Fred astaire's Royal Wedding Wedding "" never LongGuo cars,"; The Band Wagon Shirley temple of the January the captain, "" little rebellious," and so on. But in dance and slice era past after, American tap also entered schedule back-loaded.

Until the 1980s, rhythm tap Gregory king Hines Gregory friendly, the emergence of a new American in tap style is shown in the big screen version, realized the American tap Renaissance. His success, but also makes the past that, because racial problems and in movies are repressed, finally can master black tap his superb art in front of the world tap widely show. Famous film has the TAP in TAP affair ", "Bojangles" (bill Robinson biography film), etc. Thereafter the youngest tap Savion Glover, will master in tap toward the rhythm of higher level. Australia's in tap dog combination, also for American tap into a new play.

JAZZ tap, also to hit rhythm of more complex than feet into fundamental, but only more emphasizes and JAZZ music cooperation and performance, also be this time one of the important forces tap-dancing lessons. The representative figure of the greatest indisputably tap the Bufalino Brenda female.

Irish dance

Irish tap Dao, the real name should be as "Irish dance - hard-core dance", Irish tap-dancing lessons wear is primarily a Irish people's traditional art form. But American Tap dance Tap just call. Ireland's characteristic, tap is Irish national treasure. It combines art performance, graceful dance moves dancer and amazing fitness. In recent years, the world has blown Irish dance of agitation, next, let us bring you into an Irish dancing world, let you clearly understand this kind of popular world dance.

Irish dancers dancing the Irish dance, is no upper body movements, prolapse of both hands nature, stick with hip, lower body feet always keep cross posture (45 degrees). An Irish in tap and soft shoes and hard shoes respectively, in soft shoes, boys and girls dance that jump is different, because soft shoes dance both boys and girls, girls shoes different aspects of a bit like ballet shoes, won't make noise while the men's shoes heel part is hard, so can sound.

Irish tap-dancing lessons as Ireland traditional folk art, and its really get understanding and attention, or from the "river dance" stage began. Those who love this art dancer, will be more advanced tap into its own national concept fusion tradition, finished Irish tap Dao catharsis. Now we have seen in the Irish dance, we will see the dancer upper body will have a little action, it is the dancers improvement in traditional Irish dance is only lower-body action. Irish tap WangMai grams. Michael Flately is the most famous Irish dance dancer. The river dance ", "Lord of the dance", "flame dance", "the Celtic tiger" are famous Irish tap play, incomparably splendid!