Tap Dance

  What kind of image do you have about ‘Tap dancing’? For me, I can think of excitement and fast rhythm when I think of it. In this post, I’d like to talk about one of the most delightful and energetic dances ; Tap Dancing. Tap dance is a form of dance characterized by a tapping sound that is created from metal plates attached to both the ball and heel of the dancer’s shoes. These metal plates, when tapped against a suitable surface, create a percussive sound and as such tap dance is both a form of dance as well as the act of playing a musical instrument. The influences of tap dancing may include African, England, Irish, and Spanish. Tap dance from different countries had it’s own unique characteristics but as time goes by, those features combined as one. 

   In S.Korea, tap dance started to introduce around 1940s, and a comedy music movie called ’Grand Hotel’ about tap dancing made people get interested in it greatly. Even nowadays, a number of celebrities proved that tap dancing is very useful for short term diet, which influences on wide spread of tap dancing among people. It’s not very hard to find tap dance institution in any cities in S.Korea or any countries around the world. Since tap dancing has a lot of benefits as well as excitement while people are dancing, it is going to be popular among general people for a long period of time as it has been so far.