Tuesday 26 May 2015

Tap Dance Tuesday

At first this looks like a rather unremarkable piece of footage from 1950s television, but wait . . . what's that on her feet . . . those couldn't possibly be toe shoes, could they?!?!?  Why in fact they are! I have now opened a door onto a weird and wonderful side of old tap dancing that I never knew existed: toe-tapping.  Here is a link I found to a bit of it's history.

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