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Michela Marino Lerman on the Timelessness of Tap Dance.

Tap dance is everything in one. It’s something that is ancient and of the future. It’s timeless.

Michela Marino Lerman December 14th, 2022
A mature Black woman with short, gay curly hair tap dances in front of a band. She is wearing white tap shoes, a black top and pants and a red, flowing cardigan.

Dianne Walker on the New Generation of Female Tap Dancers

Tap dance is a form of dance once dominated by men. However, today it is dominated by women.

Dianne Walker February 4th, 2022

Women Rising: Has the #MeToo Movement Smashed the Glass Ceiling for Women in Tap?

Writing in Dance Magazine in 1969 about Tap Happenings, those weekly tap dance jams at the Bert Wheeler Theater in New York City, critic Patrick O’Connor commented on dancers Sandra Gibson and Leticia Jay, the two sole female performers: “Gibson, the first of the red hot ‘soul’ mamas does a number, as does Leticia Jay, […]

Constance Valis Hill March 16th, 2020
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