Tap dance

#tap dance#dancing#rhythm#shoes

Tap is dancing where you hear your own mistakes. The feet have to make several movements at once, and every deviation sounds immediately across the room. The pictures below split the movements so one thing at a time can be practised.

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Tap dance

A boy tap dances with bent arms and one foot tapping, with motion lines.

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Tap dance

A boy tap dances in black tap shoes with one arm stretched out.

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Tap dance

A girl tap dances in black tap shoes with motion lines at her feet.

About this visual support

The unusual thing about tap is that the sound is the result. In other dance a movement can be roughly right without anyone noticing, but here every foot is heard separately, and a delay of a tenth of a second sounds wrong to the whole room. That gives the learner constant immediate feedback, which can be motivating or pressuring depending on the day.

Visual support lets the parts be practised separately. A picture for the heel beat, one for the toe beat and one for the combination means one movement can be trained at a time without the whole sequence having to work at once.

A concrete tip is to practise the rhythm with the hands on a table first. The hand learns the beat faster than the foot, and once the pattern is there it transfers to the floor. In Routined the dance practice can sit as a short step on the days it falls, and the app can be tried for fourteen days at no cost.