To wonder what the point of tap dancing is?

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My 2 DDs have started 'dancing' classes but the level of professionalism and outlay on dancing kit is not really proportionate (IMO)with the fact that they are just 2 little kids who want to go to a little dancing club. And tap dancing? WTF is that all about? Where do we even see tap dancing as a genuine form of entertainment? (apart from that irritating Vodaphone advert)...

lockets, I wasn't suggesting that she should want that.

piscesmoon - it's part of the second mortgage dancing classes they go to. If it were just tap, I'm sorry friends, I wouldn't bother...

look at these two guys. bionic legs. Irish dancing but they did tap too.

here

IsMargot. Great video.

I went to see Riverdance years ago. It was so brilliant I cried!

Actually you can really see the influence that tap has had on them.

I am at this thread!!! I love tap dancing, started when I was 5! As others have said it is technically difficult (very difficult as you mone up the grades). Plus it's fab for teaching rhythm and timing. Not to mention being fun, and a good way to socialise

oops mean move not mone!

....when I read the thread title, I mistakenly believed it to be referring to lap dancing, and had therefore formulated an elaborate and considered response.

Sigh.

Still. At least I avoided making any feeble jokes about falling in sinks. That would have been, frankly, unforgivable...

Retiredgoth2. Now you are here, what's your opinion on tap dancing?

lap dancing!!

Everybody's little girls are learning it nowadays!

Or bloody pole dancing

YANBU, I have always wondered the same thing. Came to the conclusion that it was invented by, is practised by and entertains luvvies, thats all.

I imagine tap to be good for fitness levels.

I do Pole dancing for fitness. I have one at home. Really good form of excercise for me as I get bored with our gym equipment.

I do tap classes and love it.

My DD, 12, does ballet, tap and jazz and just last weekend took part in a big show with her dance school which included some great tap routines from the older students which you could see they were all enjoying immensely.

I could watch Anne Miller, etc all day.

I believe I read that Hazel Blears does/did tap dancing.

ABetaDad thanks for throwing that little nugget of information into the ring - just when we were winning the OP round......

(Are you imagining Hazel in some fishnetts )

screamingabdab - I was trying not to so thank you for putting that in my head !

My cousins did tap dancing and were on Junior Showtime back in the early 1970s. My Auntie looks like exactly like Hazel Blears and she taught tap dancing.

No wonder my Uncle decided to found one of the first trans-continental trucking firms and did a lot of the driving himself - just to keep his eye in like .

I love tap dancing - good for rhythm - I can still remember my steps from 10years ago.

The point of it is - exercise, enjoyment and sicipline - same as with any dancing.

Unless the children hope to be professionals then I can see the point that there are other dance types for them to specialise in that are likely to be more opportunities in, but even then taps a good grounding in dance training.

shuffle hop step tap step step...

Brilliant exercise. Not drippy like ballet. Fab noise.

But tell me the point of dressage. My dd is obsessed. Now that is seriously bizarre!

MummyCharli - I'm that you're . Bruce Forsyth is what is means to me and I can't be the only one.

Seeker - have you seen how ripped those professional ballet dancers are? Drippy? Tap Dancing = Bruce Forsyth = outdated, old fashioned and irrelavent to modern culture.

ABetaDad

AAAAGHHH... I just realised who Hazel Blears was....well that is just case closed as far as I am concerned.