Tap dancing. It's not really a thing anymore, is it?

I shake my head at all the "dancing" on TikTok that doesn't really include a lot of foot movement, mostly upperbody and hands.

Tell that to Casey Nicholaw.

Seeing this thread, the first thing that came to mind is Jack challenging Ben (Gregory Hines) to a tap dance-off on Will & Grace.

I always loved it.

My mom always tells me a story about taking tap dancing classes at a neighbors house and being upset that everyone else already knew what to do, but I find it hard to believe this happened because we live in a country redneck area and this was in the 2000s. I just can’t imagine anyone around being experienced tap dancers. Maybe there’s a trailer park Fred Astaire out there.

Damn Gregory is attractive and cool.

I hate to exercise...

I think it died in the 1970s

I studied tap as a child in the 80s and then in college. I liked it. Pretty much anyone can be a tap dancer regardless of body type or age. You just have to practice. About 10 years ago, I went to Broadway Dance Center and started taking tap and ballet lessons again (in my 40s) for fun. Lilla Crawford was in my class. She had just played Annie on Broadway and filmed Into the Woods but the teacher kept getting upset at her for fooling around with her friend. I should go take lessons again. I'm 51. Probably too old to try ballet again but you can always do tap.

R5 are you a teenager? I'm surprised you know what tap dance is.

Nowadays a black man tap dancing might be called “problematic” by woke media and black Twitter. I said what I said. And not intelligent woke media, but the reductive type—you know the majority of it.

I hate to exercise, but I love to tap!

Lucy was going to star in TapDance Fever but Gary talked her out of it.

Long ago I did take tap for several years in a small dance studio from a middle-aged man my mother said was a bachelor. He was very elegant, almost balletic at times. I had to walk quite a ways back and forth, a few miles, something that would not happen today I think. Thoroughly enjoyed it and will always consider myself a tap dancer.

I love the sound of it.