Shannon Barnhart, founder of a dance studio in Omaha, reflects on her 53-year career teaching tap dance to thousands, ...

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 ...

For Tony Award–winning tap dancer Savion Glover, words don’t mean a thing: He talks with his feet. A rumble of For Tony Award–winning tap dancer Savion Glover, words don’t mean a thing: He talks with ...

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 ...

Tap festivals have been pivotal in passing on tradition. But New York’s has been canceled and the institution that supports it faces an uncertain future. By Brian Seibert If Chicago, St. Louis and Rio ...