| Tap Dance is the style of
American theatrical dance, well known for percussive footwork that marks
out certain rhythmic patterns on the floor. Some descriptive step names
are brush, flap, shuffle, ball change, and cramp roll.
The sources of tap include the Irish solo
step dance, the English clog dance, and African dance movements. Among the
slaves in the southern United States, these merged by the early 19th
century into folk styles, the modern descendants on which include
buck-and-wing dancing and southern United States clogging (both done in
leather-sole shoes).
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