Chicago has long been a breeding ground for tap dance, and the city’s flagship summer festival, Rhythm World, is back. Now in his second year on the job, director Jumaane Taylor looks to put his ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The Uptown Rhythm Festival will mix styles, including tap, swing and flamenco, that are flourishing despite problems of rehearsal and performance space. Max Pollak rehearsing at ...

The Marshall L. Davis, Sr. African Heritage Cultural Arts Center’s (AHCAC) Winds of Heritage Dance Company “Revelations in Rhythm,” a live performance celebrating African rhythms and American tap ...

The series visits Washington Park on Sunday, July 14 at the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center. Rhythm World 34 concert 1 starts here! The Chicago Human Rhythm Project welcomes you back ...

For more than three decades, hoofers-in-training have convened in downtown Chicago for Rhythm World. The meat and potatoes of this storied tap dance festival is its classes, which kicked off Friday ...

Rhythm tap dance masters Michelle Dorrance and Nicholas Van Young love the traditional toe and heel and a good piece of wood under their feet, but they also feel the urgent tug of the future. Their ...

U.S. National Tap Dance Day is celebrated on May 25 to honor this type of dancing that is full of energy and happiness. Learn ...

3 Maya Rudolph Will Make Broadway Debut in OH, MARY! Picking up from the more introspective tap that we've seen from Savion Glover, who has even danced at times with his back turned to the audience, ...

Tap dance is as much a part of Americana as blue jeans, barbecue or the Statue of Liberty. While not as popular today as it was during its “Golden Age” from 1920 to 1940, the American art form has ...