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New Portable Tap Dance Floor WebsiteSeptember 1st, 2009Hard at work as always, I have spent the last few weeks developing the website for my new portable tap dance floor. The site features full details about the tap boards and a quick and easy ordering process. You can also see the floor in action on this video: Please check out the video & leave a comment about it below.
Fun Tap Techniques & ExercisesAugust 26th, 2009  photo credit: Stegsie
As the Summer draws to a close I am finishing my last batch of Summer tap intensives and workshops. As always, my students are teaching me more than I’m teaching them. One of the comments that I have heard a lot from students is that my classes are “so much fun!” While I would love to say this is due to my phenomenal teaching skills, I think it actually owes more to the freedom I have been giving my students to express themselves. Instead of drilling endless tap steps I have taken to giving students an “idea,” and then encouraging them to build upon it. If you’re interested in learning these exercises just pick up my tap improvisation DVD. The exercises on it can be used in class to help students have more fun with tap! Of course, you can always make up your own exercises; just design them so that students have to use their own creativity in the dance! Also, if you are interested in having me come out to your dance studio for a workshop or Master class, just use my contact page to email me. I am currently offering an incredibly low rate on tap workshops. Email me to learn more! Taps
Celebrating Ernest “Brownie” BrownAugust 24th, 2009
As Dr. Jimmy Slyde would say: “He has not left us. He’s left something for us” We will miss you Brownie! You taught us how to keep it copasetic. It is with great sadness to pass on the news that Ernest “Brownie” Brown passed away early this morning, Friday, August 21, 2009. He was a beloved member of the tap community, and will be greatly missed. Brownie began to dance professionally as a child, and had a career that lasted over 80 years. With longtime partner, Charles Cookie Cook, he was half of the celebrated vaudeville duo Cook and Brown. During the 1930’s and 1940’s, Mr. Brown headlined at New York’s Roxie, Radio City Music Hall, the Cotton Club, at London’s Palladium and the Latin Casino in Paris. Broadway veteran of “Kiss me Kate,” Brownie was a member of “The Original Copasetics.” Mr. Brown danced with his partner and protégé Reginald “The Hoofer” McLaughlin in Chicago in his later years, and they appear on a tap documentary called “JUBA – Masters of Tap.” Mr. Brown was given the ATDF “Hoofer Award” in 2004. Hillary-Marie
Let Me Promote Your Upcoming Tap Event!August 17th, 2009
I am in the process of updating my @TapDancingNews Twitter account with tap dance event announcements for August & September 2009. If you have something you would like for me to share please post it to the comments section here or email me about it. You can also message it to me on Facebook. Everything I post will be featured on Twitter as well as on the left sidebar of this blog. Note: I may not share every event that is submitted. Many factors go into whether or not I promote an event, including how crazy my schedule is!
Atlanta Swing Dancers And Tap!July 20th, 2009
Tonight I’m teaching an introductory tap class at Hot Jam tonight at 7pm, the weekly Swing Dancer jam session! Tap shoes are optional for this class and the cost is only $5. If you wanna Swing or Tap Dance, you’ll have a great time tonight. There is even a complimentary introductory Swing lesson right after my tap lesson! For more information visit the Hot Jam website.
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