Then, Meadmore's colleague, Keith Holland, recorded the Goddess tap dancing.
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There may be a kind of rhetorical tap-dancing going on here.
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This night, it's actually Rory's stress tap dancing that wakes her up.
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After careful research, he found a way: Bryant took up tap dancing.
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It includes musical performances and spontaneous tap dancing at a local café.
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The world needs more of that — and less tap-dancing sea lions.
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"The girl upstairs was like a tap-dancing elephant," Ms. Axen said.
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WHAT THE EYE HEARS: A History of Tap Dancing, by Brian Seibert.
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Basketball star Kobe Bryant once took up tap dancing to improve his game.
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It's like tap dancing with ballet shoes, skimming like a stone on water.
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I took tap dancing lessons last year, and I play in a band.
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Here it is, like Justin said about tap dancing, all in the feet.
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Her videos quickly went viral and soon she was tap-dancing on Fox News.
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But tap dancing lost momentum after the Second World War and never fully recovered.
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Surprisingly for a show staged by Mr. Glover, dance, and especially tap dancing, is backgrounded.
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She was still tap dancing, her friend Ms. Frank reported, the week before her death.
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The tap dancing was machine-gun precise, the singing was tuneful, the costumes were gorgeous.
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Abbie Kondel has a go-to trick for stealing the show during pageants: tap dancing.
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Ms. Dorrance is tickled that people might be surprised to see Ms. Meyers tap dancing.
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Highlights include tap dancing, a disco song about gravity and a heartfelt lament for Pluto.
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My mother, Joyce, grew up singing and tap dancing, something that not many people know.
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Tap dancing, wrote Bryant, would build his ankle strength while improving his foot speed and rhythm.
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O.J. Simpson (with a tap dancing John Travolta in the background), and Westworld's Evan Rachel Wood.
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Long gone are the days of witches flying through the air and upside-down tap dancing.
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There is a rhythm track made from Lofgren's tap dancing shoes run through an octave divider ("Eternity").
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Jurassic Park: The Musical will feature video, puppetry, moving sculpture, songs, tap-dancing, and blood (presumably fake).
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To keep tap-dancing with the people he loves, and for anyone else who wants to listen.
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It's like patting your head while rubbing your belly ... while tap dancing and reciting the alphabet backward.
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There's singing, tap-dancing, a brief cartoon, and even a sneak peak into the White House's "inclusivity corner".
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" Tatum says Gattelli remained confident in his tap dancing abilities "until the day I was about to crack.
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And, when he's had his fill of tap dancing, he envisions many more hobbies, including sculpting and carpentry.
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That's because, thanks to some time-travel tap-dancing, it's been sent by a different entity—not Skynet!
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He would say only that he wanted to make something rooted in tap dancing and American folk music.
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Mr. Rime trades in Mr. Mime's clown show with a tap dancing routine and a sweet bowler hat.
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Tap dancing can be traced back to the Five Points district, now known as Chinatown in New York City.
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This traditionally involves the contestants showing off skills that have included tap-dancing and baton-twirling, while skimpily dressed.
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One minute they could be serving you kimchi, and the next minute they could be tap-dancing on stage.
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Accompanied by the musician Jeb Colwell, he does this through physical comedy, oddball props, wry commentary and tap-dancing.
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Activities include ice treks, visiting with penguins (tap-dancing or otherwise), and visiting the sauna at the Russian Science Base.
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Move mouse to—sweet tap-dancing Wilbur Ross, I can't even finish reciting such an inane litany of needless actions.
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Gregory Hines is the tap-dancing American expat blackmailed by the K.G.B. into persuading Nikolai to rejoin the Kirov Ballet.
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She had us all convinced that she was once a pageant queen, Miss Brooklyn, and her talent was tap dancing.
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Then it goes awry with an odd battle sequence that features adult-size mice doing jazzy, hip-jutting, tap-dancing routines.
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"We have tap dancing and kick lines," said Ms. Sherman-Palladino, enthused during a break in filming on that March day.
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Or when I was tap dancing in Europe, I was trying to raise enough money to get my dog's plane ticket back.
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A group of young poets performed a long, powerful piece dedicated to the city, accompanied by a cappella singing and tap dancing.
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"Who knew that tap dancing during perimenopause could lead to pregnancy?" the actress and singer said in the statement and also tweeted.
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Not only is Evans tackling feminist prose, he's also tackling a new art form just for the hell of it: tap dancing.
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The piece touched on a lot of things, including Evans' love of tap-dancing and his bowing-out of the Marvel franchise.
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And as a kid, I took tap dancing lessons but never got good enough to ever get the taps on my shoes.
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They are common in Veracruz, where composers created the son, jarocho and jarabe, upbeat genres that revolve around guitars and tap dancing.
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Ellison, Morrison and García-Márquez descend straight out of Faulkner, improvising, signifying, playing the dozens and tap-dancing on his Yoknapatawpha head.
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It took mere minutes Wednesday morning for President Donald Trump to begin tap-dancing on the grave of Mike Bloomberg's presidential campaign.
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" That is the advice Buffett gives in Loomis' book about him, "Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012.
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On Saturday, the mother of three posted a video taken at the Hollywood Walk of Fame, showing her tap dancing on her star.
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Like Ward, Beruff has embraced Trump and has accused Rubio of "tap dancing" around the presidential nominee and only offering him lukewarm support.
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In the early 1950s he was the traveling music director for the boxer Sugar Ray Robinson when Robinson tried a tap-dancing career.
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Circles of kids competed to corkscrew their bodies at breakneck speeds, and often looked as though they were tap-dancing across hot coals.
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Reid fired back, saying that Smith was "Tap dancing for the NFL," and argued that the league had never operated in good faith.
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We forget we're in the burg where Charles Dickens witnessed Master Juba formulating tap dancing in an antebellum downtown dive in Five Points.
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I didn't want to be an updated version of that Sambo figure, tap-dancing and braying in joy at a succulent watermelon wedge.
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" Ms. Casel, 40, said in an interview: "I really, really, really want people to hear and experience tap dancing in a different way.
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C. P. Lacey glanced at his oversized silver watch and began tap-dancing across the floor of his cramped dressing room in Harlem.
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To learn more about the history of tap dancing, check out the video above, and subscribe to our YouTube channel for more explainer videos.
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There's even a cameo for a tap-dancing Dick Van Dyke, 93, who played Bert, the cheery London chimney sweep, in the 1964 film.
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After enlisting in the U.S. Army following the Korean War, Berry won a talent contestant with a stellar tap dancing routine, according to THR.
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Van Dyke, 92, who was given a standing ovation by the Hollywood audience on Thursday, has a cameo as a kindly, tap-dancing banker.
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His theory is that tap dancing today, like competitive hip-hop dancing in the early 2000s, is generally undervalued and ripe for a comeback.
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Instead, researchers say companies have been tap dancing around the law with little to no meaningful enforcement by European Union member countries and regulators.
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Tap dancing was one of a number of ways that he ensured his ankles were "activated and moving" in an effort to prevent injuries elsewhere.
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In La La Land, Emma Stone goes on a sing-and-dance journey through Los Angeles — and boy does all that tap dancing look tiring.
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After graduating from school, she moved down to the West Village to launch her tap-dancing career and live with her Yale dropout boyfriend, Isaac.
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She's also an excellent dancer but, as always, her drag looked like something you would have found on a Tap Dancing Queen Barbie from 1982.
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" Mr. Wilder, she said, "was a hoofer who had been tap dancing his entire life, and was at a much higher level than I was.
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Housemates leave Terrace House whenever they have achieved their goals: found love (couples usually depart together), finished their album, decided to pursue tap dancing abroad.
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There's also synchronized swimming siren Scarlett Johansson, tap-dancing Channing Tatum, philandering centurion George Clooney, gossip columnist Tilda Swinton, and a shadowy cabal of communists.
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The race to take over the Democratic National Committee chair has been optimistic but anxious, with the front-runners tap dancing carefully around the party's fissures.
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And when she gets really dirty, Ms. Schumer pairs jokes with pantomimes of tap dancing or a tip of a cap accompanied by a high-step.
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When my husband and I started planning a Hawaii vacation, we sat on the couch, laptops at the ready, our fingertips tap-dancing across our keyboards.
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Imagine tap-dancing skeletons Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2 experimented with atmosphere, space, and tone; orphaned deejay selek 2006-2008 was stuffed full of warp-speed squelching.
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"It used to be in every show in the 1920s to 1940s — you couldn't escape tap dancing — and that's nowhere near the case anymore," Mr. Seibert said.
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First, on THE GONG SHOW at 8 on ABC, he looks on as contestants show off strange talents like choreographed cow dancing and horror-tinged tap dancing.
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" In a recent interview with The New York Times, Mr. Fairchild, 30, described the ballet as "tap dancing with ballet shoes, skimming like a stone on water.
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I favored the soundtrack to "Annie," tap dancing my way across the lemon-lime colored linoleum kitchen floor for months after receiving the album as a present.
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One of those talents was Ms. Dallas, who was born in 1925 in Memphis and got her start tap dancing on tables in nightclubs on Beale Street.
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Until now, corporations have been allowed to collect vast troves of personal consumer data, while tap-dancing around what's precisely being collected and who it's sold to.
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"I've just been trying to find ways to incorporate solo jazz movement into my dancing while I'm tap dancing so that it seems more seamless," she said.
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The M*A*S*H star, 83, shared a sweet throwback video on Twitter Saturday, showing off his tap-dancing skills with a very special partner: his granddaughter.
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So he attempted some political tap-dancing, defending the controversial law as "common sense" even as he strongly implied that he had nothing to do with its creation.
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Ms. Steinem said she has been "tap-dancing hard" to help get the plans for the women's center through bureaucratic approvals and steered Ms. Leibovitz to the space.
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Rizzo smells goose through a chimney and eagerly falls down the chute and directly onto the flaming hot bird, tap-dancing atop the meat to resist the burns.
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His frenzied tap dancing becomes a stressed-out leitmotif: slapping on tables, rapping on doors, clapping to indicate the cuts while editing a film, tap-tap-tap-tap.
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According to The Cut, Elgort was recalling his experience tap dancing on stage the same award ceremony six years ago when his father, fashion photographer Arthur Elgort, was honored.
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His story, told with marionettes, shadow puppets and other forms of puppetry, includes challenges like climbing a tap-dancing spider's thread and plunging to the bottom of the sea.
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Using video projections and a tap-dancing griot, "Fly" illuminates the contributions of these soldiers, who fought overseas to protect the American rights that they were denied at home.
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There's tap-dancing, keytars, underwater tracking shots, and a stagey, dialogue-free closing sequence that might just be one of the most impressive moments caught on film this year.
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In Chloe's bathroom, she and James dive into her skincare secrets in each episode — you know, the usual, like tap dancing, making an ASMR video, and taking facial bubble baths.
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The star of the dance musical, Burt Gurney (Channing Tatum, tap-dancing and grinning like a maniac) appears to be an all-American male ingénue, but has a secret agenda.
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They are clever enough with the punch lines, but twists involving a volcano eruption, a buried treasure and a tap-dancing chorus of zombie insurance agents smell of general despair.
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Its flaws constantly threaten to consume it, but the film keeps tap-dancing on those flaws' heads, staying just a few steps ahead of the claws grabbing for its feet.
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" For other examples of the age-defying properties of dance, look to 93-year-old Dick Van Dyke vigorously tap dancing atop a desk in last December's "Mary Poppins Returns.
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Danger and absurdity go hand-in-hand in a screenplay whose joyful highlight has Aimee singing-and-tap-dancing her way out of a tight spot with the Mexican police.
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In a tap-dancing, costume-changing opening, Kevin Spacey began the Tony Awards with parodies of several nominated musicals, with surprise appearances from Stephen Colbert, Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Crystal.
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Somewhere between that school play he longed to stage and avant-garde performance art, Jurassic Park: The Musical will feature video, puppetry, moving sculpture, songs, tap-dancing, and blood (presumably fake).
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It's a stem-to-stern voyage of perfection that boasts impeccable casting, brilliant performances, adrenaline-pumping tap dancing, a bold, innovative set, superior musicianship and an infectious nightcap of sheer joy.
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In the first vignette, "Boys Syde," five guys become members of a boy band, who perform a wordless dance routine and then burst into solos: break dancing, tap dancing, hula hooping.
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Later, in a tap-dancing number, she shouted and, visibly frustrated, picked up the 3×6 sheet of plywood she had been dancing on, flipped it over, and started it again.
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Along with eating well, exercising regularly (tap dancing is one of her go-to methods) and avoiding alcohol, Zeta-Jones relies on a strict beauty regimen in order to maintain her look.
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This trick is best exemplified in a wonderful soundstage sequence depicting the filming of a scene from fictional musical Swingin' Dinghy, starring hunky Burt Gurney (Channing Tatum) as a tap-dancing sailor.
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I will not soon forget the loopy sight of Ms. Prince's Shirley tap-dancing her heart out (almost literally) to transmit messages in Morse code to passengers trapped a floor below her.
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Dr. Seligman's mother retired as a sales associate at Hunt Country Vineyards in Branchport, N.Y. She also ran a dance studio, The Young Prattsburgh Dancers, where she taught ballet and tap dancing.
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This is a show that never stays still, a deliberate mess that shifts moods and genres, tossing together tap dancing, beatboxing and multiple costume changes with the anything-goes spirit of vaudeville.
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He was wearing a Bryan Ferry mask and tap dancing with planks attached to his feet, in front of an audience of only four or five people, all of whom he knew personally.
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There were major stars, multiple costume changes, chorus lines tap dancing their hearts out and a giant groundhog — and that was all just during the opening number of the 71st Annual Tony Awards.
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White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett admitted on CNN after a little tap dancing on the issue that economic growth in the first quarter of 2019 could be zero if the shutdown continues.
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Gregory Hines brought tap dancing back to movies and Broadway; more recently, his protégé Savion Glover and the "it-girl of dance festivals" Michelle Dorrance have given it new life, Mr. Seibert said.
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But urban life continued to loom large onscreen: "Dancer" showcases 66 different Miamians joyously whipping their bodies down the sidewalks with their own chosen moves — sometimes twerking, sometimes tumbling, tap dancing or tangoing.
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The ballet would be danced entirely in sneakers (a rarity in a form still rooted in the difficult glamour of pointe shoes) and incorporate some of the hyperkinetic, intricate footwork of tap dancing.
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One, by the actor Brett Gelman, on the theme of 9/11, wove together Sammy Davis, Jr.,'s version of "The Candy Man," blackface, and nude tap dancing that turned into goose-stepping.
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There's a strong ethic of supporting each other in achieving their dreams — which have involved tap dancing, modeling, opening a restaurant and becoming a champion surfer — and the best part is, sometimes they do.
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And if people would stop asking me about it, maybe I could just be whichever Maria has decided to show up, instead of tap-dancing my way between Chill and Emotional until I'm dizzy.
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And yet, for a deeply reactionary spectacle that still involves baton twirling and tap dancing, the pageant has also produced a surprising number of renegades who bent or broke the rules with righteous flamboyance.
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His sworn enemy is not Trumpism per se, but the business-cozy politics of either party: corporate subsidies, tax loopholes and the tendency of "tap dancing politicians" to do the will of big companies.
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An army of beaming beauties in candy-cane colors participate in eight dance numbers that range from tap dancing to that famous razor-sharp kick line and other merry scenes of highly synchronized prancing.
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This is how, over the course of our show, she has ended up sailing through the air on a pretzel or licking a hamster water pipe or tap-dancing while singing about anti-depressants.
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Heather Deloach — best known for playing a tap-dancing kid in the music video for Blind Melon's 1992 hit "No Rain" — married Matthew Greiner at the US Grant Hotel in San Diego on Saturday, Oct.
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Every single time we watch this clip, we can feel our hearts grow three times their sizes, somewhere between Stone's dramatic fake swoon over Gosling and when he starts tap dancing on the park bench.
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But when Justin Peck choreographed "The Times Are Racing" for New York City Ballet, he designed the lead role with neither pointwork nor partnering; the part's chief stylistic feature, instead, is tap dancing in sneakers.
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He's a pugnacious, perma-green light who's happy to launch a picturesque jumper whenever a defender starts tap dancing at the sight of his jab step (or ducks under a pick 30 feet from the basket).
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Heather DeLoach — best known for playing a bespectacled tap-dancing kid dressed in a bee costume in the music video for Blind Melon's 1992 hit "No Rain" — has welcomed her first child, with husband Matthew Greiner.
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The grand 4963-minute production, technologically freshened up this year, features eight dance numbers that includes some tap-dancing, frolicking on a double-decker site-seeing bus and other merry scenes of impressive, highly synchronized prancing.
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This local celebration of tap dancing in all its many guises by the American Tap Dance Foundation returns for its 18th year with a diverse schedule of events, from workshops to award ceremonies to river cruises.
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Tap dancing, as a popular theatrical art form, suffered a near-death experience in the late fifties and sixties, only to be revived, in the seventies, through the efforts of a group of mostly female enthusiasts.
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The hallways were buzzing with not only presidential candidates and their followers, but comic book characters attending Megacon 2016 and young girls dolled up in hairspray and leotards for a tap-dancing competition in the same venue.
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The ad uses a tap dancer in the background to illustrate Ms. Abrams "dancing around the truth," which enraged some observers who connected the analogy to the trope of black Americans tap dancing in the segregated South.
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"I have seen and watched Michelle's work for a few years, and felt there is something in her that is larger than tap dancing," Kevin McKenzie, the artistic director of Ballet Theater, said in a telephone interview.
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She found me the best tap-dancing teachers in town to support my newfound love, and when I also expressed interest in hula dancing, she found the sole Polynesian dance group in Sacramento and signed me up.
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From pink fishnet stockings to top hats and canes, the number resembled like an aquatic rendition of the "Puttin' on the Ritz" bit in Young Frakenstein, only with sad, tap-dancing squids and a whole lot of glitter.
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In lieu of posting an endorsement, consider sharing a story that everyone can like: perhaps a feel-good story about an earthworm who found a home, or a small town tap-dancing cat who made it to Broadway.
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I'm used to fielding these questions, used to being lumped in as one of "them," although I find tap dancing irritating and have zero in common with a South African male double amputee professional sprinter convicted of murder.
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And, indeed, that effervescent production, which made Sutton Foster a star, erased, or at least plowed through, most misgivings with precision tap-dancing and quirky performances that emphasized sending up, rather than accepting, the mores of the 1920s.
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She was forced to trade the life she had with her children -- driving Angel to tap dancing classes, afternoons baking brownies -- for phone calls and visits to the Chillicothe Correctional Center, about 75 miles northeast of Kansas City.
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After a childhood in England's Lake District that Ms. Wright, 39, described as "Billy Elliot"-esque — she took tap-dancing lessons above a cricket club — she moved to New York to study at the Lee Strasberg Theater & Film Institute.
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Updated: 12:00 pm ET WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump all but came out tap-dancing Sunday after his attorney general, William Barr, wiped away nearly two years of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation with the stroke of a pen.
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In this, his initial pitch to Rebecca, he upsells his underdog status, and even if it's clear that Rebecca isn't it buying it, by the time he's through tap-dancing his way into our hearts, the rest of us totally are.
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There will be similar tap dancing around Meyer as U.S.C., which forced out its athletic director, Lynn Swann, last week, conducts a search for a replacement whose first order of business will be to determine the future of Coach Clay Helton.
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But he's tap-dancing for one viewer in particular: the fuming, demanding cable-news addict in the Oval Office, who has very specific opinions on what message he wants given to the media and how hard to give it to them.
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The Swedish artist Niki Lindroth von Bahr's prizewinning "The Burden," set in a grim, anthropomorphized Nordic city filled with singing fish, simian telemarketers and tap-dancing mice, has been growing on me since it showed at Film Forum this fall.
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While tap dancing was only one of Ms. Lee's many talents, it was in the revival of tap in the 1980s and '90s and the concerts and festivals that grew out of that revival that she found a late-career home.
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"I try to analyze extreme forms of gesture and movement in genres that follow specific codes, such as pole dancing, tecktonik, clubbing, vogueing, R&B, tap dancing, and the languages of everyday movement in different cultures," Bachzetsis told Frieze in 2013.
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As he changes into yet another natty outfit (the costumes are by T. Tyler Stumpf), he cedes the spotlight to his excellent band, the all-female Diva Jazz Orchestra, or to a young pair of tap-dancing brothers, John and Leo Manzari.
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In 1921, the show was loosely about a race for mayor in a fictional town; the production that opened this week, replete with tap dancing, is about the evolution of the original show and the lives of its creative team and star.
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" In the 1840s, tap moved to underground cellars around the Five Points area on the Lower East Side, "where people gambled, had liquor and danced," Mr. Seibert said, "and that's where a lot of the cultural mixing that produced tap dancing was happening.
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So when my new upstairs neighbors took their sweet time putting down a rug in the room above my bedroom (or lent it out to Savion Glover for midnight tap-dancing workshops), I didn't write a group email to every resident of my building.
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"I love the community here and how people in society that can't do what they want to do, just because of society's thoughts, can do it here," said a 10-year-old who drew a crowd as a tap-dancing unicorn in a sequin dress.
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"I love the community here and how people in society that can't do what they want to do, just because of societies thoughts, can do it here," said Gabrien Warren, 270, who drew a crowd as a tap-dancing unicorn in a sequin dress.
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The tap-dancing choreography alone would have made this song a hall of famer, but what makes it hard to beat are moments like Rebecca groaning, "Not on my chest!" as her ex-boyfriends do the "big finish" by leaping onto her dresser without breaking step.
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That central space is carved out for the women in his life: the mother who would move in with her adult son and live in his Manhattan apartment for two decades, and Temple, the tap-dancing child actress who would help fuel the artist's obsession with fame.
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The image of 6-and-a-half-foot tall Kobe Bryant tap dancing in a studio might seem amusing, but it highlights an important point, one that's supported by research: reaching out to experts in other disciplines is a proven way to find new solutions and boost innovation.
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The party, to which admission is free, will include an opening dance procession; storytelling with the performers Flor Bromley and Scott Raven; live music from El Sistema NY/NJ; tap-dancing tales with Joseph Webb; and a concluding D.J. dance frolic, as well as art making and face painting.
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Without members of the public in the hall to cheer on their fave candidate's zingers, candidates had to stay focused, answer the questions directly, and couldn't do any political tap dancing for applause, acting like a bunch of Tinkerbells begging for claps that'll keep them alive in the race.
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Saturday brings an evening of dance shared by Nico Brown, depicting his Midwest upbringing through minimalism; Poorna Swami, using classical Indian dance to explore "lust and lament"; and Caleb Teicher, paying tribute to the jazz great Chet Baker through Lindy hop, jazz dance and soft-shoe tap dancing (also on Sunday).
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Presented at the New Victory Theater by the Pasadena Playhouse/Crossroads Theater Company and recommended for theatergoers 10 and older, this production uses video projections and a tap-dancing griot to illuminate the contributions of these soldiers, who fought overseas to protect the American rights that they were denied at home.
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Presented at the New Victory Theater by the Pasadena Playhouse/Crossroads Theater Company and recommended for theatergoers 24200 and older, this production uses video projections and a tap-dancing griot to illuminate the contributions of these soldiers, who fought overseas to protect the American rights that they were denied at home.
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"Powell will have to do a lot of tap dancing," Bank of America Merrill Lynch economists wrote Friday in outlining how the Fed will need to account for expected slower U.S. growth, weak inflation and trade risks, without making it seem as if a serious downturn is in the offing.
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The Café Carlyle, with its tiny stage, is not the ideal club for an entertainer like Mr. Tune, whose stride on this night was almost as broad as the space he occupied, but he cheerfully made the best of it over an evening that covered much theater history and included a lot of tap-dancing.
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I still have to wear a brace to remind my left foot where the missing pieces used to hold it, but I'm still dancing, and thanks to the Kinect I can play Dance Central at home, instead of searching for a DDR armored platform that looks like it was built for a tap-dancing RoboCop.
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There are great jokes here (particularly a very strange bit about a Bobby McFerrin type who's so good at making sound effects with his mouth that he can make it seem like he's tap-dancing even if he's not), but in the early going, I'm most taken with Sherman's Showcase's willingness to try damn near anything.
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His voice and image were present, courtesy of an excellent film, directed by Daniel Schloss, tastefully mixing historical footage with re-enactments that flash through his life: the boyhood tap dancing, the pathbreaking with George Balanchine and New York City Ballet in the 1950s and '60s, the fateful decision to start a ballet school and company.
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Samples include documentaries about young dancers with developmental challenges, tap dancing and the choreographer Maurice Béjart; a handful of behind-the-scenes portraits of artists like Tiler Peck, Lucinda Childs and Trey McIntyre; and a tribute to the filmmaker Spike Jonze, who has used dance in fun and fresh ways in his work, from movies to Apple commercials.
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Mr. McNally says that Mr. Mantello not only works easily in different genres — "he can bend 360 from tap dancing to ice skating" — but that he also has a clear vision upfront; he also puts more effort into the physical production than many directors, making sure he has the right set, lighting, costumes and stage manager.
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They include Tony Yazbeck (who brings a pugilist's aggression to tap dancing in a "Follies" number); Chuck Cooper (who here becomes both Sweeney Todd and Tevye the Milkman from "Fiddler on the Roof"); Bryonha Marie Parham (a feverish Sally Bowles from "Cabaret"); Janet Dacal (Evita); Michael Xavier (bachelor Bobby in "Company" and the masked Phantom); and Kaley Ann Voorhees (Maria in "West Side Story" and Christine in "Phantom").
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The Spurs invited him to shoot by ducking under screens… Druh-mah-tick-ah-lee sagging off whenever he had a live dribble... And baiting him into contested shots when open looks outside the paint were available… That series followed a regular season in which LeBron drilled 40.7 percent of his threes, and, at 28 years old, appeared to be smack dab in the center of his incomparable prime, void of weaknesses, tap dancing atop every other player's ceiling.
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La La Land is everything you have heard: it's a technical masterpiece that will impress even the most logistically talented and organized among us; it's a full-throated endorsement of spectacle and song and Technicolor and tap dancing; it's a fine love story; it is nice to see Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling work together, as they're good at it and seem to enjoy it; it is, I think, very embarrassing for John Legend, who may or may not be playing a parody of himself.
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The choices are legion: Judi Dench gliding in as Old Deuteronomy, a Yoda-esque fluff ball with a huge ruff who brings to mind the Cowardly Lion en route to a drag ball as Queen Elizabeth I; the tap dancing Skimbleshanks (Steven McRae), dressed, unlike most of the furries — in red pants and suspenders, no less — leading a Pied Piper parade; or Taylor Swift, as Bombalurina, executing a joyless burlesque shimmy after descending on the scene astride a crescent moon that ejaculates iridescent catnip.
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Vice President Mike PenceMichael (Mike) Richard PenceThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters FEC chair calls on Trump to provide evidence of NH voter fraud Five years after Yazidi genocide, US warns ISIS is rebounding MORE spent the better part of his Monday morning tap-dancing his way out of the danger zone with President Trump after a New York Times article "Republican Shadow Campaign for 22019 Takes Shape as Trump Doubts Grow" rather credibly outlined how Pence is, in fact, choreographing a possible-to-likely 2020 run for president.
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Movie posters and photography make up a major part of the collection, and some examples offered include the stylish poster of 1943's Cabin in the Sky starring Lena Horne, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Ethel Waters; Paul Robeson in regal attire on the cover of 1933's Emperor Jones; tap-dancing legend Bill Robinson in his historic 1932 movie Harlem is Heaven, which features a number of entertainers from New York City's Cotton Club; a poster for 1937's "Underworld," one of Oscar Micheaux's many films from his independent career; and a rare 1927 German poster for the Josephine Baker movie The Woman from the Folies Bergères.
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