What is Tap Dancing?

 

Tap dancing was originally a type of American Theatrical dance demonstrating percussive sounds from taps on the bottom of the dancers shoes. Tap shoes have two metal plates on the bottom, one at the ball of the foot and the other at the heel. As the dancer moves their feet  in different ways they create various different characteristic sounds which look and sound great! There have been a number of influences to this type of dance such as; the English clog dance, the Irish solo step dance and Afrian dance movements.