Tap dancing is a bore

I wanted to take tap dance classes as a kid so badly.

I was not allowed.

Tappa Tappa Tappa

I LOVE tap dancing!

Tap dancing only looks group when a whole group is doing it in unison on stage

Pushing it on us? What year does your calendar say? 1930's, 40's?

It's not. Watch No Maps on My Taps. It's fascinating and athletic.

Tommy Tune!

Presenting Bonnie Franklin!

Tapping kills!

Tap is not dead.

Tapping into the hearts of millions.

Tap is dead except on Broadway, which is currently dead

Tap is fun! What’s the matter with you?

I know a couple of fellas who would disagree with you. Moe and Joe. We used to work together, really tore up the lot. You can find these guys in the Smithsonian.

Tap your troubles away, OP.

Boring?

That made me smile, R15 -- and anything that makes me smile today is a good thing. Thanks!

WOW R16 !

You can take Follies and shove it up your ass. Give me a good tap number any day.

(FOLLIES traditionally includes a group tap number during "Who's That Woman," BTW).

I think it's a generational thing. Tap was much loved by "the Greatest Gen" and then the older Boomers who grew up with it (at least on TV and onstage) . Many younger people view it as an amusing, irrelevant oddity (like waltzing or clog-dancing). For some people, it has unfortunate associations with minstrelsy and racial/cultural appropriation.

I admire the level of skill involved, and I enjoy it when choreographers explore it in new ways. But a little part of me dies when, say, a new musical features very traditional tap as a means of wow-wing the audience. It feels cheap.

PS: was it Sontag who once called tap dancing "choreographed fascism?"