Seattle’s Jessie Sawyers calls herself a visual musician. Her instruments are her tap shoes. “Tap can play that role as the percussion element. I have done a couple of gigs around town where literally ...
"I'm a tap dancer," said Jason Samuels Smith. "Some people would say a hoofer. Some people would say foot percussionist. Some people would say organic mathematician!" There are a lot of ways to ...
The trailblazing outlaw legend Waylon Jennings was an unshakable talent in the studio, and even more so on the stage. With a commanding presence, a demanding baritone, and a chilling confidence, he ...
No one involved in "Happy Feet" set out to make a blockbuster tribute to tap-dancing. But as it turned out, the movie about a hyper-rhythmic penguin who saves his flock with his dancing feet is the ...
Emmy nominee Dulé Hill, most recently on Broadway in After Midnight, performs “Fabulous Feet” from the 1983 Tony-nominated musical The Tap Dance Kid in the second installment of the Encores! Inside ...