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I was finally able to post a new video to eTapDance.com this week. In this video I am teaching about one of the most common mistakes that tap dancers make.

After covering that topic here recently, I decided I could go into more depth by creating a video for eTapDance.com members. I am also preparing several other videos that include more great tap combinations plus exercises you can use to improve your technique!

If you’re not yet a member, I hope you’ll consider signing up or at least joining the email list to receive continual updates about new videos, lessons, and online resources.

I have been active on Twitter for a couple of years through my @TerrenceTaps account but recently I created a separate account focused on spreading the news about all of the tap dance activities & announcements that people share with me! You can find it by visiting www.Twitter.com/TapDancingNews

You can also see the updates from the account posted on the left sidebar of this page. If you’re active on Twitter, please follow this account and tell other tap dancers about it!

If you have an announcement that you would like posted, just email it to me, or send me a message via Twitter. I look forward to following you!

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I could not be more ecstatic to share with you and announce the first ever New Jersey tap dance festival! Kicking off in 2010, Jersey Tap Fest will be an annually fantastic New Jersey tap dance event that will educate and serve diverse students with great passion for tap dance.

Founded by Hillary-Marie, Jersey Tap Fest provides repertoire classes to celebrate today’s young, emerging tap dance artists and master classes to celebrate the tap masters and allow them to train the artists who are the future face of the tap dance community. We are committed to tap dance by being dedicated to its advancement for the purposes of promoting and preserving its traditions, history and musicality as an American Art form. Jersey Tap Fest provides non-competitive opportunities of self-advancement and networking for the basic tapper, tap teacher, tap enthusiast, pre-professional and professional artist and tap master. This stimulating, demanding and rigorous program will serve diverse students with great passion for tap dance in the tri-state area, allowing them to improve their technical abilities and increase their overall knowledge of the art form. All participants will be awarded opportunities of performance to give them valuable experience in which they can reflect on. Over all,

Jersey Tap Fest is focused on serving tap dance, teaching its history, preserving its percussive traditions and promoting it for what it is, a cherished American art form.

Please spread the word and visit www.JerseyTapFest.com for a schedule of events, faculty listing and more information on this exciting tap dance event.

Interested in supporting Jersey Tap Fest? Please contact Hillary-Marie regarding contributions that will encourage, inspire and provide scholarships for young, eager tap students while furthering the American art form of tap dance. Your support for the tap dance community is greatly appreciated!

*Hillary-Marie*

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Performing Arts Company offers ‘An Invitation to Dance’ - The Santa Ynez Valley Performing Arts Company, under the direction of Christine Fossemalle, and the nonprofit umbrella of the Santa Barbara Dance Alliance, will present its 22nd season with its public performance of “ An Invitation to Dance.

Tops in tap: A Philadelphia festival hopes to click with beloved dance form - JAYE ALLISON was in the second grade when she went to a dance recital at the Academy of Music and watched in awe as performers with top hats and canes tapped out a perfect rhythm across the stage.

Michael Jackson’s signature move: Roots of the Moonwalk - KnoxBlabber “ItchyBro” posted this video of tap dancer Bill Bailey circa 1955. At the end of the clip, Bailey exits the stage with the “backslide,” a vintage version of the Moonwalk, Michael Jackson’s most iconic dance move.

Local dancer makes it onto ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ - TV tapper: Erik Moore, of Oviedo, dances at Focus Performing Arts Studio in Sanford. Moore made it to Las Vegas in a TV competition.

Just Dance - Susan Fisher put on her dancing shoes at age 3 and hasn’t been without them much since then.

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I am still in shock at the passing of Michael Jackson on yesterday afternoon. I write this post with watery eyes. No one can deny that he was one of the greatest entertainers ever. Oh how I wish I could see the jam session they are having on the other side right now!

It probably looks something like this. Enjoy these clips of Michael Jackson & the Jackson 5 performing alongside the Nicholas Brothers!

Here is another clip of Michael full out tap dancing that I had never seen before today (tapping starts at about 1:50)…what more can I say? He is the greatest.