Ebony Cross was only a third-grader when she made her two best friends take tap-dancing lessons with her. Now, at 17, Cross drags them to tap lessons half an hour early and does impromptu practice ...

Just a few feet west of the Ford Center, where a hundred dancing feet are tapping away in "42nd Street," the New York City Tap Festival held court for a weeklong series saluting the durable art of tap ...