Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The challenge of casting the Encores! revival of “The Tap Dance Kid” exposes some of the complications of tap, show business and Black history. By ...

Maurice Hines Jr., who hit the L.A. area when he was 70 for a Beverly Hills run of his show "Tappin' Through Life," has died at age 80. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) The scene from the movie ...

TAP DANCERS are unique among terpsichoreans. They don't just interpret music, they make it. They don't merely keep the beat with their feet, they break it down, syncopate it, rework it and (especially ...

KATY, Texas (KTRK) -- Cathie Nicholas is continuing the legacy of her famous grandfather, Fayard Nicholas, and his brother, Harold. The Nicholas Brothers were a legendary tap duo known for their ...

Move over, Fred Astaire. There's a new group of tap dancers in town. But they might not look as you expect. The sound of synchronized rhythms flow up the stairs from the lower floor of the Lincoln ...

"I'm a tap dancer," said Jason Samuels Smith. "Some people would say a hoofer. Some people would say foot percussionist. Some people would say organic mathematician!" There are a lot of ways to ...

Maurice Hines, dancer and choreographer — and evangelist for the art of tap dancing — died Friday at age 80. Hines and his brother, the famed Gregory Hines, helped keep tap in the public eye. Maurice ...

Among the many amazing post-apocalyptic movies to come out of the early 1980s, few are as demented as Bronx Warriors, which features tap dancing gangs vs. biker gangs, plus a hero named Trash. In this ...