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3 sie 2016 · “Tap Dance in America: A Chronology of Tap Performance on Stage, Film, and Media” sets the record straight and dismisses critical commentary that has rendered tap dance history virtually invisible.
16 gru 2009 · This is the first comprehensive, fully documented, intercultural history of tap dance, a uniquely American art form, that explores all aspects of the intricate musical and social exchange that evolved from Afro-Irish percussive step dances like the jig, gioube, buck-and-wing, and juba to the work of contemporary tap luminaries.
21 cze 2019 · Tap dance originated in the United States in the early 19th century at the crossroads of African and Irish American dance forms. When slave owners took away traditional African percussion instruments, slaves turned to percussive dancing to express themselves and retain their cultural identities.
8 mar 2021 · significant and a crucial component in tap dance history, particularly during the 1970s and 80s when female tap dance artists worked to bring tap out of its decline in popularity by saving, transforming, reinvigorating, and propelling tap dance into its future. As a female tap dancer, choreographer, and tap dance educator, I believe it is
22 lis 2015 · In New York, Donald Byrd, a prominent African-American choreographer, recently presented a piece, “The Minstrel Show Revisited,” that links nineteenth-century minstrelsy—which was a breeding ...
18 mar 2024 · The research project Tapping the Margins was undertaken by Ann Kilkelly and Mary Neth from 1999 through 2005 and focused on women in tap dance. Their scope was unprecedented: to analyze constructions of gender, race, class, and sexuality in tap history.
1 sty 2010 · This is the first comprehensive, fully documented, intercultural history of tap dance, a uniquely American art form, that explores all aspects of the intricate musical and social exchange that...
