"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 ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! A three-day tap-dancing festival in Philadelphia commemorates the art form’s rich ...

Move over, Fred Astaire. There's a new group of tap dancers in town. But they might not look as you expect. The sound of synchronized rhythms flow up the stairs from the lower floor of the Lincoln ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The challenge of casting the Encores! revival of “The Tap Dance Kid” exposes some of the complications of tap, show business and Black history. By ...

Arthur Duncan, who kept tap dancing visible and relevant across the country on television when most had relegated it to the past and who also broke ground as a Black entertainer, has died at 97.

THINGS HE WANTED THE WORLD TO UNDERSTAND, THE GIFT AND THE VALUE OF BLACK BRILLIANCE. HEY. TELLING STORIES ABOUT BLACK HISTORY THROUGH MUSIC AND TAP DANCE. BREANA ALI HAS BEEN TAP DANCING SINCE SHE ...