Picture this: you're waiting in line at the grocery store, you're on the bus ride home, or you're sitting outside an office for a job interview. A song begins playing, either over the speakers or just ...

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 ...

The tap-tap-tapping heard Monday afternoons at Catalina Foothills High School isn't the typical construction sound people may be used to. Actually, the noise comes from Catalina Foothills Community ...

"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 ...

A group of North Texas women has been working hard to preserve a style of dancing that had its heyday in the early part of the 20th century. The Class Act Tap Company will soon celebrate 40 years of ...

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 ...

A useful trick for someone who always feels a little out of place. By Eric Boodman When I was 17 or so, I worked evenings at a dentist’s office. At first, it carried the thrill of a secret world: The ...