Ebony Cross was only a third-grader when she made her two best friends take tap-dancing lessons with her. Now, at 17, Cross drags them to tap lessons half an hour early and does impromptu practice ...

AS SOON AS I heard the sharp clicketyclack of my teacher’s tap shoes on the floor, I was smitten. People look joyful when tap dancing for a reason. Dancing boosts energy. Add in the satisfying, ...

Get ready to snap your fingers to a swinging number the moment Old Soles takes the stage. The name is an oxymoron, as the dance group is anything but old. It’s made up of four high school students ...

They’ve been tap-dancing on construction sites for 24 years now in the touring show “Tap Dogs.” And Dein Perry knows from experience — it’s not easy. The blisters. The bruises. The aches and pains and ...

READING, Massachusetts (KTRK) -- Forget moves like Jagger. Maybe it's the moves of a grandfather and granddaughter that we need to be watching. A woman says she posted on Facebook a small clip of her ...

The sound of tap shoes on Shore Cultural Centre’s hard wooden floors became highly apparent upon walking through the doors of The Cleveland Tap Dance Conservatory. The new dance group, started by ...

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.

There is a chance you saw me tap-dancing, off-Broadway, in 1961, assuming you were in the audience when I and three classmates tap-tap-tapped our way across the stage of the P.S. 52 auditorium in ...

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 ...