Tap Dancing-Dancing to generate Music

Tap is an exciting form of dance where the dancers wear special shoes with metal taps. Tap dancers use their feet like drums to create rhythmic patterns and beats in time. The "tap" term comes from the tapping sound is produced when the little ballerina shoes, sheets of metal to touch a floor or hard surface.

Tappers & Hoofers:

One common style of tap dancing is called "a classic Tap." The classic, "tappers", using their hands and bodies to merge with ballet or jazz movement, touch their own habits. "Hoofers" trying to use every part of his shoes with his feet to make sounds like drums.

The Clogging is similar to tap dancing. Cloggers play with a movement of the body and goes down and tend to make sounds with their heels. Tap dancers are light on their feet, and tend to dance to the music, rather than the rhythms. Often Cloggers dance group, such as Riverdance.