Just like a comedian has a certain joke or a jazz musician has a riff that they know will get the crowd, a tap dancer always has a step.
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Tap dancing is all about the feet; you put your head down and don't really engage with anything but the rhythm in your head.
There are people who take tap class, do a tap dance. And then there are people who know the dance, who know why they take tap classes. Who know why they do 20 shuffles, or 50 shuffles, before they go on.
Tap's foundation is jazz, just like hip-hop, so relating tap-dancing to rap is natural for me.
There are many different styles of, and approaches to, tap. My own leans towards a more intellectual view: tap dancing not just for the sake of entertainment but to educate and spark emotion.
People who can dance and sing are often very good at comedy.
There's a whole new generation who know about tap dancing thanks to 'Happy Feet.'
When I first saw tap dancing, I immediately got it: the righteousness of being able to make so much noise with your feet!
If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.
I'm a tap dancer. Once you're a tap dancer, you're always a tap dancer. In 'After Midnight,' I get to dance, but I don't do a full tap number.
There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.
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