A legend of tap dance for seven decades has died. Maurice Hines gained fame with his brother Gregory as the Hines Brothers, delighting audiences on stage, television, and film. Jeffrey Brown has our ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Manchester native Aaron Tolson has a successful career as a professional tap dancer and teacher. But this year he’s dipping into a different art form: writing children’s books. The book is set in ...

Tap dancers speak their own secret language—and they speak with their feet. “That’s sort of [tap dancing’s] foundation,” Andrea Patella, BC ’21, the vice president of Columbia’s tap-dance group ...

Ja'bowen Dixon offers instruction in one of the classes available at M.A.D.D. Rhythms Tap Summit 2019 Credit: Courtesy M.A.D.D. Rhythms As of this year, October 1 becomes M.A.D.D. Rhythms Day in the ...

Hosted by the Board of the American Tap Dance Foundation & the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the Library for the Performing Arts, this special event will include a Lifetime Achievement Award to ...

Receiving an award as a leader in dance education from one of the nation’s top tap companies would have been recognition enough for the Department of Dance at Hope College. It’s next-level to have had ...

Alde Lewis and Zamira Williams hit the boards in The Tap Dance Kid. Credit: Photo by Carlos Figueroa @JPEGSbyCarlos Alde Lewis recalls dancing on Broadway with Tommy Tune as his director and ...

Kentwood Players, a community theater group based in Westchester, is putting on Broadway’s classic tap-dancing musical, “42nd ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Some conservative media took offense at a joy-filled holiday video shot at the White House. They’re missing the point. By Gia ...

The Marshall L. Davis, Sr. African Heritage Cultural Arts Center’s (AHCAC) Winds of Heritage Dance Company “Revelations in Rhythm,” a live performance celebrating African rhythms and American tap ...