Ebony Cross was only a third-grader when she made her two best friends take tap-dancing lessons with her. Now, at 17, Cross drags them to tap lessons half an hour early and does impromptu practice ...

Tap dancing is often misrepresented and undervalued in popular culture, at best viewed as a lower art form when compared to ballet, modern and even hip-hop; and at worst associated with racist Black ...

Although Heidi Malnar has studied classical ballet and has “lots of respect for it,” she leans more toward what she calls “the noisier side” of the dance medium. More specifically, tap dancing. An ...