Tap dance

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Tap dance shoes

The tap dance in the 19th century in the United States developed and is now known all over the world. With two metal plates each, which are more durable than the wooden soles that were initially used, attached to the front and back of the shoes, rhythmic sounds are generated when dancing that match the visual impression and the music. The dancer thus also becomes a percussion musician . The English expression for it is onomatopoeic tap dance and the French claquettes .

steps
  • step: Loaded step on the metal plate of the ball of the foot
  • stamp: loaded step with the whole foot, powerful blow
  • stomp: unloaded step with the whole foot, powerful blow
  • toe: tapping with the tip of your foot
  • heel: create sound with the heel while keeping the ball of the foot loaded
  • ball or tap or touch: Unloaded blow with the metal plate of the ball of the foot on the floor
  • hop: jump on one leg
  • leap: jump from one leg to the other
  • brush: "dragging" an unloaded foot across the floor and producing a short, clean tone, forwards or backwards, is also carried out to the side
  • shuffle: double tone, unloaded forefoot "grind" back and forth across the floor (= brush back and forth)
  • flap: double tone from the falling knee, the loose foot hits the ground with the ball of the ball, bounces back briefly and a step completes the movement
  • ball change: double tone made up of an unloaded and a loaded “step”, acts a bit like limping when performed slowly several times in a row.
  • scuff: dragging the heel forward across the ground results in a blow
  • dig: One punch, heel , strong, forward
  • pull back: Two strokes, the first is generated by pulling back the loose foot with the front iron that you were standing on shortly before, the second by landing on the same iron
  • pick up: Two strikes, the first is produced by pulling back the foot on which one is standing on the heel with the front iron, the second by landing the other foot
Step combinations
  • cramp roll: Step combination of ball and heel with four strokes, the first stroke can be performed as a flap (results in five strokes) or as a shuffle step (results in six strokes)
  • time step (single): shuffle hop step flap step
  • time step (double): shuffle hop flap flap step
  • time step (triple): shuffle hop shuffle step flap step
  • maxi ford: step shuffle leap toe
  • shim sham: shuffle step shuffle step shuffle ball change shuffle step

Spanish flamenco may have influenced tap dancing. The tips of the shoes are nailed so that they produce an easily audible sound when dancing.

history

Tap dancing goes back to the 1830s. It originated in the Five Points neighborhood of New York , where different ethnic groups came together and held competitions to showcase their best moves. The result was a fusion of African shuffle or rubber boot dance and Irish, Scottish and English step dance . Most influential was the Irish jig . So a new American style developed.

The tap dance experienced a heyday between 1900 and 1955. At that time tap was the main style in the shows on Broadway and in American variety theater (Vaudeville). The big bands , which were very popular at the time , often hired tap dancers. For a time, amateur steppers were seen and heard on most American streets. At that time, tap dancing was almost identical to jazz dance , as jazz was the music to which the step was performed.

In the 1930s to 1950s, the best tap dancers switched to film and television.

The step came to Germany through Egon Bier, who learned to step with Fred Astaire. He was the first to teach tap dancing in his dance school.

In the 1950s, the dance style changed in the entertainment industry. Rock 'n' roll and a new style of jazz dance developed. From then on, jazz dance and tap dance developed in parallel as separate styles.

The show and tap dance world championship, which has been held in Riesa since 1997 , is now held once a year .

At the end of the 1990s, X-Outing developed in Russia as the “street version” of tap dancing. The genre of music to which X-Outing is mainly danced is called Drum and Bass .

Famous tap dancers

Notation

Spelling in German according to Duden: "Stepptanz" (because steppen is written with two P 's; however, German-speaking tapdancers prefer the English spelling and stick to "Stepdance" - as opposed to "Quilt")

Web links

Commons : Tap dance  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.ido-dance.com/