Tap Dance Movie Long Overdue…
The recent release of “How She Move” has again started me to thinking that it’s high time for a new tap dance movie!
Don’t get me wrong “Happy Feet
With all of the movies that have come out in recent years featuring dance battles/love stories, I am very surprised that tap dancing has yet to be featured. After all, in it’s infancy tap developed as dancers used the art form to “battle” one another.
On the other hand, a part of me is glad that we haven’t been subjected to “Save The Last Tap Dance.” After all, how many times can they make that movie?? (Apparently, at least once a year)
Still, people really need to know how alive and vibrant tap continues to be.
Young people need to see that tap is not just something that was great back in the day, or something that cartoon penguins do in a fictional world. Instead, it’s something that real people are still doing in today’s real world!
…and might I add are doing it very well!
A well executed film could contextualize tap dancing in a way that would help others to see that it’s not a relic from a bygone era (which seems to be the widespread perception), but a contemporary movement that is preserving its past and creating its future simultaneously!
