North Texas has become a training hub for tap dancers, thanks in part to RIFF Dallas, an annual gathering now in its 12th year. Short for Rhythm in Fusion Festival, it attracts a couple of hundred ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Bril Barrett has been transforming lives through tap dancing in Chicago for decades, giving students a creative escape from the inner city. The National Endowment for the Arts has ...

The sound of tap shoes on Shore Cultural Centre’s hard wooden floors became highly apparent upon walking through the doors of The Cleveland Tap Dance Conservatory. The new dance group, started by ...

The Harman Senior Center has offered tap dance classes since 2015, courtesy of teacher Diana Dreeszen. She offers three different levels, to accommodate those with years of training and those picking ...

Award-winning tap dancer and choreographer Ayodele Casel discusses her rise to success. We're sorry, but something went wrong while fetching your podcast feeds ...

Ayodele Casel (creator, choreographer, performer) in performance for A.R.T.'s world-premiere production of "Diary of a Tap Dancer." (Courtesy Nile Scott Studios and Maggie Hall) “It’s a man’s world, ...

From a back room in the Harman Senior Center, past bingo flyers and bridge games, musical taps and laughter echoed across the hardwood floor. A handful of women, mostly retirees, gathered in a dance ...

If you haven’t heard or seen the Syncopated Ladies tap dancing troupe, you’re definitely missing out. Led by sisters Chloé Arnold and Maud Arnold, who have been tap-dancing since they were kids, the ...

Almost every athlete imagines representing Team USA and competing on the world stage. Hearing the Star Spangled Banner as the flag is being raised during the medal ceremony is the ultimate dream.

Sometimes the floors aren’t right — most dance studios have replaced their wood floors with marley, a vinyl-like material that is perfect for point-dancing, but terrible for tap. Sometimes the problem ...