VAIL, Colorado ” In high school, I was a closet thespian. If anyone asked me to list my afterschool activities, I would smoothly edit out my love of dancing around in tap shoes. Then I scored a role ...

AVON LAKE, Ohio — There’s a unique sound that fills the rooms and halls inside the Independence Senior Living Center in Avon Lake, and it’s become the one of things keeping Pat Rust upbeat and full of ...

Big band music plays over the speakers as pixie-haired Gloria Latimer’s tootsies click and clack across the onyx-colored flooring inside Ormao Dance Company. The longtime tap-dancing teacher ...

Think of tap dancing and you’ll likely imagine a troupe of five-year-olds, with many tappers hanging up their metal-bottomed shoes after leaving primary school. Yet now, an increasing number of women ...

AS SOON AS I heard the sharp clicketyclack of my teacher’s tap shoes on the floor, I was smitten. People look joyful when tap dancing for a reason. Dancing boosts energy. Add in the satisfying, ...

If a crazy neighbor asks you to skydive, swim with sharks or bee-keep in the buff, say yes, yes to anything save tap class. It is far too dangerous. Putting out the trash one evening, I was corralled ...

A new type of seated class will make its way to the Amherst Public Library at the end of March. Active for Life Fitness in Westlake will introduce a seated Dancercise tap class at the library, 221 ...

Tap dancing is still alive and well in 2016, and many dance studios in and near the Detroit area offer lessons. Check out this list for an idea of some of the best in the area. Central City Dance can ...

“That’s who I am, and that’s what I do,” she said. News of Weber and her shoes spread through the community until a local musician, Eric Wainaina, approached her about teaching people how to tap, ...