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Rent tap and other dance DVDs in convenient monthly subscription packages. Hundreds of titles in all dance genres, including many tap performance and instruction offerings.

Double Bass Productions run by owner/creator Mike Wittmers. Double Bass Productions has just released it's first instructional tap DVD titled, "The World Is My Drum Vol. 1". DBP also offers teaching notes, clothing/active wear and an open line of communication for any tap info that's sought out.

A manual for tap dance training and mastering tap dance skills. Modern Tap Dance by Benjamin Feliksdal, published in 2003 Bekebooks Amsterdam. ISBN 9080769924 Subjects: explaining the basics; 4 level syllabus: basics, beginners, advanced, expert; dance routines; learning to recognize various rhythms; anatomy and history of tap dance.

Beginner/Intermediate through Advanced tap instructional video, notes, and tap music CD. Download a portion of the video to view!

The official web site for the Hollywood short, Tap Heat

Homepage for Acia Gray's great book.

Mark Knowles' comprehensive book of tap staps

Celebrate the joy and artistry of tap dance with a stunning view of professional tap dancers in performance and rehearsal. Unexpected and evocative photographs capture the essence of what it means to be a tap dancer today, while instructional and inspirational quotes from the masters of tap, both past and present, give readers quirky, inside tips and anecdotes from those who have risen to the heights of the profession. Designed for dancers and fans alike, Top Tap Tips is just the book for the dancer in your life.

Corporate web site for Bloch, a well-known manufacturer of tap shoes.

Large dance studio in New York City that features many classes by well-known tappers.

Capezio, maker of tap shoes and other dance equipment

Corporate web site for Capezio, a well-known maker of tap shoes and metal taps.

Perhaps the only tap dance store in the world, Swingtap is also a small tap studio and home to Victor Cuno, a tap teacher and performer. Located in Paris, France.

Sell flooring for tap and other dance forms

The premiere agency offering business services to Tap dancers and Musicians. Representing Professional Tap Dancers, as well as other artists available for events worldwide. Free newsletter & calendar offering upcoming events. Includes a helpful variety of links for dancers and dance enthusiasts. See for yourself!!!

Homepage of Duff Tap Studio, Alexander Ivashkevich - the one professional tap dance school in Tallinn, Estonia

This Exclusive talent competition for adults only is now in its' 14th year! Talent from all over the world will compete for awards and cash prizes. Singers, Dancers, Musicians, Comedians and talent of all types will then compete for the World Dance Off. The MS. ALL AMERICAN SENIOR PAGEANT will be held during the cruise and the winner will be crowned.

An organization dedicated to the preservation of tap, blues, hip-hop and other vernacular styles. Home of the Harlem Jazz Dance Festival

A New York City non-profit tap dance company founded by tap dancers Brenda Bufalino, Tony Waag, and the late Charles “Honi” Coles.

Founded in 1998, The CHJDF is a collection of memorabilia, papers, photo's and film documenting the California History of jazz dance.

The mission of Colorado Dance Coalition is to cultivate unity within the dance community of Colorado by creating and promoting experiences that guide dance students and teachers to a greater appreciation of the art form and its history. The CDC will work collaboratively with dance artists from all over the world, thus providing local dancers opportunities to train and interact with the masters through workshops, classes, intensives, and performance. By opening eyes and hearts, the CDC hopes to perpetuate the spirit and respect of dance for many years to come.

Colorado dance Coalition was founded to cultivate unity within the dance community of Colorado by creating and promoting experiences that guide dance students and teachers to a greater appreciation of the art form and its history. The CDC will work collaboratively with dance artists from all over the world, thus providing local dancers opportunities to train and interact with the masters through workshops, classes, intensives, and performance.

A Colorado-based dance organization whose mission it is to bring master teachers, especially tap, to Colorado for classes, workshops, festivals, and performances. 303.482.1846 or info@ColoradoDanceCoalition.com

Dancer magazine's website aims to be the most complete source of news and information about dance, including tap. Check out the dedicated tap page, which includes performance, audition and festival information as well as Stacie Strong's tap blog.

Created in 2006, this is the Blog of the Brazilian Tap Bulletin "Divulgando o Sapateado Por Aí" in Portuguese -- tap news about Brazilian festivals, jams and shows, photos, articles, links and more.

The web site and tap production company of professional tap dancer Andrew Nemr

The site of professional tap dancer Andrew Nemr

Debbie Sternbach's tap site featuring her classes, performance group, and other info in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Official Website for professional tap dancer Brenda Bufalino. Includes her bio, tour schedule, books, instructional tapes, and other info.

The web site for professional tap dancer Charon Aldredge

The web site of actress, director, and dancer Chloe Arnold.

The web site of award-winning tap professional Danny Daniels. Features many instructional videos for sale.

This is a tap web site and free email newsletter managed since 1998 by Marcelo Batalha, a Brazilian tap enthusiast from Rio de Janeiro. A newsletter is delivered each week with information (sent in by tap dancers from all over the world, or found by searching the internet) about tap events, shows, sites, movies, and workshops. In Portuguese.

A band whose members attend the University of Massachusetts. The lead is tap dancer Ben Nathan.

Welcome to Ten Foot Five Productions. Since 1997, TF5's unique company of musicians, percussionists and rhythm tap dancers have astounded worldwide audiences creating music with 5-gallon paint buckets, metal cans and tap shoes as well as traditional instruments including; electric guitar, bass and drums.

Fearless, original, conceptual tap dance company in Chicago: Chicago Tap Theatre.

A Brazilian tap group, featuring young tap dancers from Rio de Janeiro. The group is directed by Cintia Martin, a respected Brazilian teacher, choreographer, and performer.

From Mexico City. A place to rhythm invention ... from the silence to the percussive dance, percussive noise. Making the Beat. We are an Artistic underground Crew. A team of creative mad men and woman, dancing toghether to make dance beat. We are rhythm makers... from Mexico. Tap dance - Body Drum - Percussive & Stomp Performance

Website with info about teaching, performing and bio for Heather Cornell, Artistic Director of Manhattan Tap. Also serves as a website for the company.

Web site of this San Diego based, hip-hop influenced, tap performance group.

Home of LA's Jazz Tap Ensemble, a professional tap performance group

STEPOLOGY, a San Francisco-based nonprofit corporation, presents the 2007 Bay Area Tap Festival. The Festival, now in its fifth year, celebrates the uniquely American art form of tap dance, and features Festival artists in a week of instructional workshop classes and a free panel discussion hosted by San Francisco Dance Center. The Festival culminates with the Bay Area Rhythm Exchange – a production which features Festival artists in a concert performance with live musical accompaniment at San Francisco’s historic Herbst Theatre. A diverse, multi-generational roster of today’s tap stars from Broadway, film, and the concert stage returns for the annual concert performance, which has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle’s Top Ten Dance Performances of the Year for both 2005 and 2006. The cast includes Channing Cook-Holmes (Riverdance, Gangs of New York, Bojangles), Festival Director John Kloss (Tap Heat), Deborah Mitchell (The Cotton Club, Black and Blue), Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards (Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk; Bamboozled), Sam Weber (Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood), and more!

Boston Summer Tap Festival web site

Gil Stroming's production company that produces the Break The Floor and Shake the Floor festivals.

Rhythm Tap Workshop, July 6-9, 2005, Boys and Girls; Youth and Adult Ages 13 and older, Beginning - Advanced. This workshop trains dancers in tap technique from exceptional tap professionals from New York and Los Angeles.

Site for the Chicago Human Rhythm Project

An annual tap festival held in Ithaca, New York.

MARCH 28 - 30, 2008 Finger Lakes Tap Dance Festival is a Tap Legacy program with the Ithaca College as the official host. Two days of workshops, check the website for details. Faculty includes Dr. Jimmy Slyde, Dianne "Lady Di" Walker, Michelle Dorrance, Rocky Mendes, Andrew J. Nemr & Baakari Wilder. See you there.

This week long Tap Festival will offer great opportunities to take with some of the best from the East & the West! Events include Master Classes (in Dance, History & Film), Panel Discussions, Tap Jams, Cutting Session, Student Showcase, and a Special Concert Performance!

STEPOLOGY, a San Francisco-based nonprofit corporation, presents the 2007 Bay Area Rhythm Exchange. Included in the San Francisco Chronicle’s “Top Ten Dance Performances” of both 2005 and 2006, this concert event returns to celebrate the joy and wonder of the uniquely American art form of tap dance with live musical accompaniment. The diverse, multi-generational cast of today’s tap all-stars from Broadway, film, and the concert stage features Channing Cook-Holmes (Riverdance, Gangs of New York, Bojangles), Festival Director John Kloss (Tap Heat), Deborah Mitchell (The Cotton Club, Black and Blue), Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards (Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk; Bamboozled), Sam Weber (Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood), and more.

Tap Superstar, Savion Glover, a 1996 Tony Award Winner, will return to the Rialto with a new show called Classical Savion. The quintessential master of tap and rhythm is not the first to attempt tapping to classical music, but the show's stunning intensity for nearly two hours non-stop has to be seen to be believed. The exquisitely subtle gradations of his tap beats are virtually those of a jazz instrumentalist, and bring a fresh, new element to orchestrations of Bach and Vivaldi. Choreographer and director Savion Glover made his Broadway debut as the title character in The Tap Dance Kid at the age of 12, appeared opposite Gregory Hines in the Broadway run of Jelly’s Last Jam, and won the Tony award for his dancing and choreography in the Broadway smash hit Bring In Da Noise, Bring In Da Funk.

New Eskndalo Website ( Percussive Rhythm Dancers in Mexico) Show Touring, Tap training, rhythm classes & workshop

An Extraordinary cast of the world’s foremost tap dancers together for four weeks this summer for the world premiere of Imagine Tap, a lavish, energetic and exhilarating celebration of tap dance, directed and choreographed by Derick K Grant. July 11, 2006 - August 6, 2006 Harris Theater, Millennium Park, Chicago

This site provides new information about Savion Glover's newest show, SAVION AT THE RIALTO, premiering in Atlanta November 25th - 30th.

Not strictly tap, but a great rhythm show and a great site. If you can’t get to see them in person, check out their video.

The official site for the touring Tap Dogs show

An All Star Tap Dance Concert featuring Tap Dance Stars of Broadway and Off-Broadway - ONE NIGHT ONLY - March 29, 2008 @ 8:00 pm at the Historic State Theatre of Ithaca - tickets available at www.stateofithaca.com Come and enjoy the Concert.