Eighty-five-year-old Marian Steele's feet beat is racing. As her tap-clad shoe soles rebound snappily off the stage floor, they resound like intoxicating drumbeats. It's a joyful noise, a rap of the ...

Barry Thomas remembers a particularly strict tap dance teacher who always told him, “If you can’t say it, you can’t do it.” And though at the time he’d mentally flipped her off, it’s now become one of ...

Big band music plays over the speakers as pixie-haired Gloria Latimer’s tootsies click and clack across the onyx-colored flooring inside Ormao Dance Company. The longtime tap-dancing teacher ...

From a back room in the Harman Senior Center, past bingo flyers and bridge games, musical taps and laughter echoed across the hardwood floor. A handful of women, mostly retirees, gathered in a dance ...

Despite COVID-19 restrictions that have isolated dance students across the globe, Barnard dance classes are in full swing. In their Zoom rectangles, dancers listen to their lectures and clear spaces ...