Lessons in Tap - Week 1 [17/4/24]
LESSONS IN TAP Developing Our Skills - Week 1 [17/4/24] After our show, ‘One Night Only’ where we performed our Jazz Lyrical Mirror dance number that we had been working on over the last 10 week, we are now working on something new for our next show, ‘Spotlight’. The next style of dance we are moving onto in our dance lessons is ‘Tap Dancing’. As a class, we aren’t very experienced with tap dancing. Some have tapped before and some have never. I personally, I have never tapped before so I’m going to be learning from scratch. I am both excited and nervous to try and learn tap but I am very excited to challenge myself with a new dance style. Before we began learning anything, Rob, our dance teacher, told us what song we would eventually be dancing our tap sequences to. The chosen song is "Downtown" by Macklemore. "Downtown" is a hip-hop style song which wouldn't normally be the genre style choice for tap. This song is a good speed for beginners as it is fast e...