Flash! Rhythm Tap Technique for Pull Backs, Wings, Slides, and Trenches
Flash! Rhythm Tap Technique for Pull Backs, Wings, Slides, and Trenches
With Dexter Jones and Margaret Morrison
Dexter Jones and Margaret Morrison lead a dance and history session for teachers on the technique of hitting tap’s most most exciting steps: flash material of pull backs, wings, slides, trenches (and over the tops, if we have time). Dexter will lead exercises and specific techniques to pass these essential, classic skills on to your students, and he’ll speak of his Broadway and performing experience with choreographers who have specialized in flash. Margaret will address how to start your very beginners with hop shuffling steps that get them ready for flash at higher levels. She’ll present videos and tap history that you can share with students. Flash emerged from the very earliest African-American Buck and Wing dancing at the turn of the 20th century and has a featured role in one of our oldest dances, the BS Chorus. Flash tap took the dance world by storm in the 1930s and 40s as tap dancers, like the Nicholas Brothers or the Miller Brothers and Lois, sought new heights of excellence to express the soaring horn lines of big band jazz.
Workshop is geared towards tap teachers. The dance segment will be for Intermediate/Advanced tap dancers. Students should wear tap shoes and have a dance space to work in.
Flash! Rhythm Tap Technique for Pull Backs, Wings, Slides, and Trenches
With Dexter Jones and Margaret Morrison
Dexter Jones and Margaret Morrison lead a dance and history session for teachers on the technique of hitting tap’s most most exciting steps: flash material of pull backs, wings, slides, trenches (and over the tops, if we have time). Dexter will lead exercises and specific techniques to pass these essential, classic skills on to your students, and he’ll speak of his Broadway and performing experience with choreographers who have specialized in flash. Margaret will address how to start your very beginners with hop shuffling steps that get them ready for flash at higher levels. She’ll present videos and tap history that you can share with students. Flash emerged from the very earliest African-American Buck and Wing dancing at the turn of the 20th century and has a featured role in one of our oldest dances, the BS Chorus. Flash tap took the dance world by storm in the 1930s and 40s as tap dancers, like the Nicholas Brothers or the Miller Brothers and Lois, sought new heights of excellence to express the soaring horn lines of big band jazz.
Workshop is geared towards tap teachers. The dance segment will be for Intermediate/Advanced tap dancers. Students should wear tap shoes and have a dance space to work in.
Flash! Rhythm Tap Technique for Pull Backs, Wings, Slides, and Trenches
With Dexter Jones and Margaret Morrison
Dexter Jones and Margaret Morrison lead a dance and history session for teachers on the technique of hitting tap’s most most exciting steps: flash material of pull backs, wings, slides, trenches (and over the tops, if we have time). Dexter will lead exercises and specific techniques to pass these essential, classic skills on to your students, and he’ll speak of his Broadway and performing experience with choreographers who have specialized in flash. Margaret will address how to start your very beginners with hop shuffling steps that get them ready for flash at higher levels. She’ll present videos and tap history that you can share with students. Flash emerged from the very earliest African-American Buck and Wing dancing at the turn of the 20th century and has a featured role in one of our oldest dances, the BS Chorus. Flash tap took the dance world by storm in the 1930s and 40s as tap dancers, like the Nicholas Brothers or the Miller Brothers and Lois, sought new heights of excellence to express the soaring horn lines of big band jazz.
Workshop is geared towards tap teachers. The dance segment will be for Intermediate/Advanced tap dancers. Students should wear tap shoes and have a dance space to work in.