Tap Dancing History

At first when I heard I was going to have to go to a tap dancing performance for class I was a bit upset. I don’t have anything against tap dancing. I just wouldn’t normally set aside two hours to watch it. This was my first experience with tap dancing and I can gladly say that it was a wonderful introduction into this art, and I would love to see another performance. About a week before the show we watched a video that focused on the history of tap dancing. Ms. Dorrance talked about how tap dancing originated on the plantations and the slaves used it as a means to communicate after the slave masters had taken away the drums. She went on to talk about how tap dancing evolved as time progressed and its impact on the United States. Watching this video really opened my eyes to a lot of different things. I never knew that slaves used tap dancing as a means to communicate, and I never knew about all the tap dancing icons that in some way progressed tap dancing. This video piqued my interest in tap dancing and soon tap dancing went from being something I didn’t care about to something that has such a profound and

The first part of the performance was a bit slow for me it was just normal tap dancing, but then it started to really pick up for me. It was like the performers found a way to combine contemporary dance, and tap dancing, and I really enjoyed this part. I could see the passion in the performers’ bodies and I believe they did a wonderful job displaying those emotions. Some of their movements were slow and gentle while others were rushed and powerful. The part with the skinny bald man in the turtleneck (a.k.a Mr.Turtleneck) was a bit awkward. I was really worried about Mr.Turtleneck when he fell on the ground. He was a very slender man and his fall sounded really bad, it sounded like he got the wind knocked out of him when he hit the