Europe-based Tap pro Pascal Hulin offers up a new YouTube video of a funk tap piece he choreographed featuring tap dancers Dorel and Costel Surbeck.
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Europe-based Tap pro Pascal Hulin offers up a new YouTube video of a funk tap piece he choreographed featuring tap dancers Dorel and Costel Surbeck.
A new instructional DVD by Rusty Frank reveals the art of Stan Kahn, one of the masters of relaxed "West Coast" style tap. Stan Kahn's Tap Dance Technique is a 2-disk DVD set that has one of Kahn's former students, Sam Weber, revealing Kahn's technique and philosophy.
Get the DVD on Amazon.com
Check out a video trailer below:
Savion Glover, the world's best tap dancer, will appear on Dancing With The Stars on Wednesday, September 26. Joining him on the show will be Maurice Chestnut, Marshall Davis, Ashley DeForest, Rhonda Jordan and Shaina Mitchell. We thank Savion for all he has done to promote the art form.
Happy Feet, the animated movie about a tap dancing penguin, is now on DVD. DVD extras include a private tap dance lesson with Savion Glover, two new fully animated sequences - Mumble Meets a Blue Whale, and A Happy Feet Moment; Two music videos - Gia's Hit Me Up, and Prince's The Song of the Heart; and a classic cartoon - I Love to Singa. Buy it from Amazon.
Tap dancer Mike Wittmers has released an instructional DVD for tap dancers titled The World Is My Drum. You can order it from his web site and also check out the online trailer. Looks interesting.
Up and coming tap dancer Jared Grimes has released a new instructional tap DVD titled Tap... Tap... BOOM! You can buy it on the Live At Broadway Dancer Center web site. According to the web site, "Join Jared as he blasts you out of your tap 'comfort zone' and into a place of self-expression. He will guide you through a warm-up and three explosive combinations. " The 60 minute video is also available on VHS (NTSC or PAL) or you can buy just the music CD.
The Tap Legacy Foundation is now selling LaVaughn Robinson Dancing History, a documentary about tap master LaVaughn Robinson whose tap career spans six decades. The 30 minute documentary was originally broadcast on PBS. A portion of the proceeds go directly to Robinson. You can buy the video (VHS only) directly from the TLF here.
