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1 Chapter 1 : Dance Class Learn to Dance at the Online Dance Studio Miss Christy's Dance Class: Tap "This video is an excellent way to learn or review tap theinnatdunvilla.com instructor moves slowly and teaches the steps as well as the proper names of steps. Take a beginners dance class at home. Choose from eight different classes and get moving. All are available on DVD or instantly via video on demand. Each class acts as a gold standard introduction to the dance - we feature some of the finest dance teachers in the world. Dance along in your introductory class, and read our in-depth written guides. Together they are absolutely the best confidence-booster. Ready to have a go? Ballet for adults Have you ever wanted to be a ballet dancer? We can make a ballet dancer out of anybody. And our teacher used to teach the Royal Ballet. Yes, you read that right. Go to the online ballet class Modern dance workout Dance your way to weight loss with our Modern Dance Workout. Start your workout right now Go to the Hip Hop class Ballroom Love Dancing with The Stars? Or Strictly Come Dancing? Latin Turn up the temperature a bit and grab a gorgeous partner by the hand. Meet Brian and join his online classes Salsa basics Salsa for complete beginners. Salsa for complete and utter beginners. Absolutely everyone can pick up these super-simple steps, no matter how many left feet you have. Dance the salsa today Belly dance Go on, admit it. Not only a whole guide on everything you need to know, but the divine Helen Santa Maria has recorded a free video class just for DanceClass. Now, just have a go. Take one of our classes either online or on DVD and dance along at home where nobody will ever see you. Finally, read our guide to learning that style. Second, it shows you inside a real dance lesson. This way you get to see how a good dance teacher instructs their pupils. Last, of course, you can use your class on its own, every time you need an at-home workout, or if you do sign up for local lessons, use it as your practice session between classes. You can jump straight to our class pages here No problem We take a pretty unique approach to encouraging adults to take up dancing. Why just one of each? Can I do this? All these and more are answered on our FAQs page. Page 1

2 Chapter 2 : can you teach yourself to dance like ballet pointe, tap? Yahoo Answers How to Learn to Tap Dance. In this Article: Getting Started Learning the Basic Steps Improving Your Technique Community Q&A Tap dancing is an exciting dance style that uses metal-plated shoes to create complicated clicking noises. Tap Dance "What is Tap Dance? And the greatest thing about it is that you can learn it surprisingly quickly. Make Some Noise Somehow, we all seem to have a good ear for Tap and know what it should sound like. That means that if you are prepared to pay close attention to your teacher, you will be able to monitor your own progress after a fairly short space of time â your built-in Tap dance ear will be a constant tutor. The music played in Tap lessons helps a lot too. You know the stuff we refer to as toe-tapping? Well, there you go! So any big band numbers or tunes from the hit jazz shows like Chicago will be bellowed out in your class just to add even more drama and theatrics to the proceedings. This is a big dance. It sizzles with fun and energy. But with all that enthusiasm comes a little word about exercise content for beginners. That means you have to start small and quiet, giving great concentration to learning each step well, so it sounds as well as looks accurate. For your first few lessons, you may not use anything other than your feet to tap with and your hands to clap with. But fear not, after just a couple of lessons, you should at least be doing routines that last long enough to get the heart rate up a little. Men, women, young, old, fit and not-so-fit, big and small. They all can learn how to Tap well. And it does seem to attract a huge cross-section of people. There just seems to be a lot of people who secretly harbor a desire to at least try a bit of Tap dancing once in their life. And so you will find all sorts of people in beginners Tap classes. Of course, very few just turn up once to try it and never appear again. It really is the dance for everybody. So throw your sneakers away, tie on your Tap shoes, and prepare to be transported into a magical toe-tapping world Page 2

3 Chapter 3 : How to teach yourself tap dancing? Yahoo Answers Tap Dancing: How to Teach Yourself to Tap [Robert Audy] on theinnatdunvilla.com *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Illustrated lessons provide a convenient way to learn tap steps and techniques at home and range from warm-up exercises to three complete routines a la Kelly. Workouts What is tap dancing? A rhythmic type of dance where dancers tap their feet in tap shoes against a hard surface to create sound and rhythm. What is the history of tap dancing? I often hear adults say they are too old to learn to tap dance, but the adults I teach and the ones I talk to who are taking lessons online, universally enjoy it. In fact I find adults learn quite a bit faster than children. With a good amount of practice, practically anyone can be good. Our Beginner Lessons are a good place to start! A beginner might just want to start out with a Capezio CG09 or similar. They are cheap for a reason. How much should I practice? How good do you want to to be? Two half hour practice sessions a week will yield decent progress. If you really want to get good fast, try a half hour to an hour every day. How many classes should I take a week? As many as you can! The more you take, the better you will get. Who should I take from? Taking from a variety of teachers will quickly broaden your vocabulary and give you a wide array of techniques to pull from when you need them. Are there bad teachers out there you should avoid? How do you spot them? Look for teachers who are not specific in demonstrating or teaching a step and who cannot give you clear and detailed answers to your questions. A good teacher usually has a specific way they want you to do steps and a good reason why. Your teacher should be able to explain those clearly to you. Can you really learn how to tap by watching videos? Yes you can learn steps, technique, and routines but if you really want to be great you need feedback from an experienced teacher. The ideal situation is to have someone there beside you to give you real time corrections, however if you just want to learn some basic tapping and have a good time a video will do just fine. Our Small Beginner Bundle is an awesome package for beginning tappers! What kind of floor should I use? This can do serious damage to your body. I tap on 2 layer of OSB with 2 by 4 inch squares of double thickness exercise mats glue on the bottom to give me cushion. You could get a 4ft by 4ft piece of plywood or particle board or OSB from a store like Home Depot or Lowes and put that on top of an exercise mat or other type of non- skid cushion. Beware of simply placing the wood on carpet as I found it tended to move around as I tapped. What should I do? Clean sounds take time. Some things you can do to clean your sound include: Imagine dipping your toe tap in paint. Every time you brush, shuffle, flap, etc. Flex your foot more and sooner. Immediately after the ball tap hits the floor it needs to be lifted off of it. If it stays against the floor even for a second it can scrape. Getting it off the floor faster prevents it from staying down long enough to scrape. This goes with number 2 above but is worth saying again. Pointing leads to scraping. Adjust the placement of your first sound. If you try to make it touch the floor either in line with the other foot or slightly in front of the other foot you may have more success. This can only be taken so far though. This works for shuffles as well. What can I do to get them? There are two main approaches to these: I do the traveling approach for pullbacks and the other approach I actually call pick- ups. For pullbacks with the traveling approach here is what I recommend: Traveling more results in students getting sounds a lot of the time. That will result in scrapes. If you lift them too high, you will not get sounds. I lift mine about 2-3 inches of the floor. Relax or tighten your ankles. This is different for everyone. In that case relax them more. On a scale of 1-10 if 10 is super tight and 1 is super loose my ankles are about a 4 or 5. What can I do to get wings? There are different techniques for wings. The ball tap only covers the top part of the foot. What IS touching the floor is the rubber on the bottom of your shoe. I teach my students to try to get the spank sound when their feet are at their furthest outward point. Now technically if you watched me do wings you would see me do the spank a little bit in say 3-4 inches from my furthest outward point. So why do you? It will keep your spanks and landing separated though. How much should you lift? Probably as much as you can, but an inch or two should make a difference. First of all you need to be good. And not just good feet, though that will get you far. People want the whole package: If you have all that going for you then you need to get in front of the right people often. Who are the "right" people? Go to all the big tap festivals and workshops you can. The people teaching Page 3

4 at those are probably the "right" people. Introduce yourself to them. Be in front of them as much as possible. Ask them what you need to do to get where you want to be. If you are a stand out in their classes, are nice to them, and make it a point to be seen by them, they will learn who you are. As for tap in college I think college could be used to augment your tapping - maybe a major in theater or arts administration etc. But be realistic too Page 4

5 Chapter 4 : How to Learn to Tap Dance: 12 Steps (with Pictures) - wikihow It's always best to take tap dancing lessons from a professional instructor. If there are no classes in your area, or you cannot afford lessons, it is possible to teach yourself to tap dance, if you are committed to doing it. The following 3 videos cover 5 of the most used beginner Tap dance steps in Tap dancing today. They are taken directly from the The Complete Tap dance course for beginners. Watch them in order and try them at home. These online Tap dance lessons are full of exercises and lots of angles to make sure you can get everything from home. These 2 basic tap steps are very important to get before moving to the other videos below. These tap dance steps are from: Everything is broken down step by step and it even includes practice sessions to music. You can watch the lessons online or download them to your computer. These two Tap moves are very popular and are present in many combinations. The stamp is where you pick up your foot and press it into the floor and then changing your weight immediately. The stomp however is when you press you foot into the floor but without changing the weight. These 2 basic tap dance steps are very similar but you must understand how they differ. Get The Complete Tap dance course for beginners and learn 37 Tap steps. You want to lift off your foot and swing it from the back to the front making one single touch with the toe part of the tap shoe. This move will help you develop better balance as you must really stay on one foot for a long period of time. This lesson is from: Buy Tap dance shoes â If you are serious about learning how to Tap dance you need to get the proper shoes. It will speed up your learning progress and give you the real feeling right away. Master the Rhythm of your moves â Tap dancing is one of the most rhythmical styles of dance so you need to make sure you hone down the timing of every single move you are learning. Find fluidity in your ankles â The key is to make dancing look fun and easy. You need to relax them and let them be free in order to tap dance. Practice often â Tap dance steps require lots of balancing and coordination. It is not the type of dance style you can pick up in a few hours. Instead schedule regular practice to go over your moves if you want to be really good. We hope you enjoyed this free beginner series on how to tap dance. Please leave a comment below if you liked these videos. To learn other dance styles visit our online dance lessons page. Chapter 5 : 4 Ways to Irish Dance - wikihow Rod has a new higher quality Beginner Lessons Series with 12 fun lessons (about an hour each) that will teach you the basics of tap dancing. Also you can buy all the music used in his beginner. Chapter 6 : Self-teach myself to tap dance? Yahoo Answers Become a dancing fool with free online dance lessons at theinnatdunvilla.com, a site full of detailed text lessons complete with diagrams AND video clip demonstrations. You've got your Argentine Tango. Chapter 7 : Tap Dance Guide for Beginners Tap dance teachers are some of the most fun, energetic, enthusiastic you'll ever meet. There's something about Tap dancing that makes it impossible to be glum around. So if you are looking to be taught by a teacher whose presence is uplifting, Tap class is where you'll find them. Chapter 8 : How to Teach Yourself to Tap Dance There are parts of learning how to tap dance that are tricky. So the next you need to know is that you're going to want someone with a lot of experience to guide you. You want someone who can give you the tricks and techniques that make learning tap dance much more fun and easy. Page 5

6 Chapter 9 : Everything You Need to Know About Learning tap Dance For instance, the quick beats of tap dancing are very different from the long graceful moves of ballet dancing or the edgy movements of hiphop. Perhaps you could try ballroom dancing with a partner or even Irish dancing. Page 6