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The American Tap Dance Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose primary goal is the presentation and teaching of tap dance.Its original stated purpose was to provide an "international home for tap dance, perpetuate tap as a contemporary art form, preserve it through performance and an archival library, provide educational programming, and establish a formal school for tap dance."
2008 – "The Tap Preservation Award" from New York's American Tap Dance Foundation [9] 2008 – Inducted into the California Swing Dance Hall of Fame [ 10 ] 2007 – "Tradition in Tap Award" for Outstanding Achievements and Significant Contribution to the Art and Tradition of Tap Dance [ 11 ]
Tap City, the New York City Tap Festival, was launched in 2001 in New York City. [1] Held annually for approximately one week each summer, the festival features tap dancing classes, choreography residencies, panels, screenings, and performances as well as awards ceremonies, concert performances, and Tap it Out, a free, public, outdoor event performed in Times Square by a chorus of dancers.
James Titus Godbolt (October 2, 1927 – May 16, 2008), known professionally as Jimmy Slyde and also as the "King of Slides", was an American tap dancer known for his innovative tap style mixed with jazz. Slyde was a popular rhythm tap dancer in America in the mid-20th century, when he performed on the nightclub and burlesque circuits.
Brenda Bufalino after a performance with The Jefferson Dancers. Brenda Bufalino (born September 7, 1937) is an American tap dancer and writer. She co-founded, choreographed and directed the American Tap Dance Foundation, known at the time as the American Tap Dance Orchestra. [1]
Charles "Honi" Coles (April 2, 1911 – November 12, 1992) was an American actor and tap dancer, who was inducted posthumously into the American Tap Dance Hall of Fame in 2003. He had a distinctive personal style that required technical precision, high-speed tapping, and a close-to-the-floor style where "the legs and feet did the work". [ 1 ]
Eddie Brown (1918–1992) was an American tap dancer. ... the American Tap Dance Foundation inducted him to the International Tap Dance Hall of Fame in 2007. [2]
Rod has been a tap dance teacher and choreographer for 19+ years. [2] He has taught at numerous dance studios and conventions across the United States, and now teaches at three studios. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] According to Rod Howell, he had a love/hate relationship with tap dancing as he was growing up.