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.
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, […]