BASED ON PROFESSIONAL DANCE EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE:
MANUAL FOR STEP-BY-STEP TAP DANCE TRAINING
MODERN TAP DANCE by Benjamin Feliksdal
A manual for tap dance training and mastering tap dance skills.
ISBN 9080769924, Bekebooks, Amsterdam
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Learn the lively feetwork as the authentic Hoofers did or get to know the variant form of Broadway Tap. Stamping and slapping feet. Combining tap steps, learning to make loud and clear sounds in different rhythms. The knowledge of differences in styles: Rhythm Tap, Jazz Tap, Ballet Tap, Soft Shoe, Broadway Tap. Good tap dancers should produce clean and clear sounds and execute a wide variety of rhythms. Learn basic exercises like: toe tap, brush, hop, slaps, brushes, flaps, shuffles, cramp rolls and Time Steps.
As students make progress in tap dancing, soon they will discover that intermediate and expert steps are often combinations of basic movements and step technique. This is the most logical way to accomplish a superior basic Tap Technique. Technique is defined by the most elementary tap steps in the beginning phase, using different foot placements, different accents on the taps and adding shuffles, slaps or hops and different timing.
Alignment
Every tap dancer should develop a good body posture, good arm placements and a feeling of confidence being able to move in a rhythmic and dynamic pattern of movements.
Weight transfer
Important to learn to control the balance shifting weight from one foot to the other and keep exact timing to the music.
