Seattle’s Jessie Sawyers calls herself a visual musician. Her instruments are her tap shoes. “Tap can play that role as the percussion element. I have done a couple of gigs around town where literally ...

"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 ...

Flashes of footwork and a flurry of sound filled the Debbie Allen Dance Academy as tap dancers gathered for their weekly improvisational jam session. Dancing on and in between the beat, dancers spoke ...

For Tony Award–winning tap dancer Savion Glover, words don’t mean a thing: He talks with his feet. A rumble of For Tony Award–winning tap dancer Savion Glover, words don’t mean a thing: He talks with ...

Caroline Julian loves the sound her feet make. It doesn’t matter whether she’s in her kitchen or on the world stage of competitive tap dance in Riesa, Germany. “Tap is very much how you sound, it’s ...

It’s more than tap routines. It’s tap roots. And tonight, at the College of Southern Nevada, “Tap in Time” not only traces those roots but salutes two tap dance legends who call Las Vegas home. Before ...

Audiences have seen the once-trivialized art of tap dancing reclaim its powerful African American identity, deepen its expressive potential and hone its speed and intricacy to unprecedented levels.

Emmy nominee Dulé Hill, most recently on Broadway in After Midnight, performs “Fabulous Feet” from the 1983 Tony-nominated musical The Tap Dance Kid in the second installment of the Encores! Inside ...