tap dance
noun
a dance in which the rhythm or rhythmical variation is audibly tapped out with the toe or heel by a dancer wearing shoes with special hard soles or with taps.
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Unrestrained/Refrains Rachael Worby’s Muse/ique orchestra is joined by tap-dancer Savion Glover and violinist/vocalist Charles Yang for an improvised program.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2019
Instead of a sidekick, there’s an obnoxious tap-dancer named Ray Malone who screeches like Jerry Lewis whenever he speaks, which, thankfully, he does not do often.
From Slate ● May 10, 2015
Savion Glover has been called the most creative tap-dancer in America today.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2014
There was an impressive floor show featuring the tap-dancer Omar Edwards and a trio of female dancers, as well as a rousing guitar set from the 16-year-old prodigy Solomon Hicks.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2011
Texan country singer Jerry Jeff Walker slurs his way through his lyrics but connects in a unique way, perhaps because he is the man who actually encountered the itinerant tap-dancer in a New Orleans jail.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 7, 2011
