Teacher’s wisdom: Sam Weber

Can you describe your approach to tap dancing?
Find the most efficient, least efforful way to execute each movement and be able to do the greatest number of sounds with the fewest movements necessary. For example, a shuffle isn’t two movements, as many people are taught; it’s one movement that produces two sounds. If you have to make a new movement for each sound, that adds up to a lot of movements in fast tap dancing! It’s very hard to dance that way, and it makes it difficult to keep steady time or to be rhythmically accurate.

via FindArticles.com / Dance Magazine

Leave a Reply