The Souls of Your Feet: A Tap Dance Guidebook for Rhythm Explorers

by Acia Gray

The Souls of Your Feet is a comprensive guide to the art and language of tap dance. Complete with basic technique and creative variations, this guidebook shows the beginning dancer how to build a strong foundation in this wonderful American artform as well as expand the experienced dancer's choreographic and improvisational creativity. Traditional tap dance figures and choruses to include The B.S. Chorus and The Shim Sham Shimmy are some of many basic structures covered in this guidebook. Numerous references are made to the legends of tap dance including Charles "Honi" Coles, Brenda Bufalino, Jimmy Slyde, Sarah Petonio, Savion Glover and many others securing the artform to its historical roots.

191 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1998

Reviews

[Adam Walker · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not meant for beginners or those with minimal training.