African American Tap Dance

In what ways do you think the African musical rhythms and early style of percussive movements blended with the clogging style of the British Isles and the jigs of Ireland to create a form of tap dance that is relative to what we do today? Tap dance original come from different ethnic like African, Scottish, Irish, and English clog dances, hornpipes, and jigs. In the late few decades of the 20th century, people are believed that African slaves and Irish employee are interchange their knowledge of tap dancing and it creates the tap dance in every generation from that time. Because of the competition of tap dance from different country, it makes this dance more challenge and popular in the world. In 1844 black dance William Henry Lane also known …show more content…
What was the Harlem Renaissance and how did it effect the development of tap dance? The Harlem Renaissance is rebirth African American. At that time, African American had a very difficult time in their life but this dance is changing their life, hope, and future. This dance is start from very simple. People are wearing soft shoe and swinging their body and step on and push down their feet on the floor. This is the simple way to perform for the people entrainment. Suddenly, the Hollywood put this tap dance on the Movie Musical and people enjoying it so it effects the development of tap dance on nowadays. It is surprise to see that we can use our body for many ways but we don’t even know …show more content…
The reason is that even though the generation is change, the dancing must be the same as the history of African culture dance. Additionally, if the dancer is making a mistake, it will change the meaning of the dance and the culture. Thus, the dancer master is teaching people when they are very young age. Then, we are seeing that the dancing style is the same as the decade. This rule is similar to every country of their culture because we don’t want new generation to forget about our own