Chicago has long been a breeding ground for tap dance, and the city’s flagship summer festival, Rhythm World, is back. Now in his second year on the job, director Jumaane Taylor looks to put his ...

For more than three decades, hoofers-in-training have convened in downtown Chicago for Rhythm World. The meat and potatoes of this storied tap dance festival is its classes, which kicked off Friday ...

“I do think it’s tap’s time, no pun intended,” said Heidi Malnar, artistic director of the Gulf Coast Theatre on Tap. Last year, Malnar founded a new dance company in the birthplace of jazz to revive ...

Rhythm tap dance masters Michelle Dorrance and Nicholas Van Young love the traditional toe and heel and a good piece of wood under their feet, but they also feel the urgent tug of the future. Their ...

The Marshall L. Davis, Sr. African Heritage Cultural Arts Center’s (AHCAC) Winds of Heritage Dance Company “Revelations in Rhythm,” a live performance celebrating African rhythms and American tap ...

The Chicago Human Rhythm Project (CHRP) has announced its upcoming 2024-25 season, a dramatic exploration of tap and percussive dance through an blistering array of events and initiatives including ...

Tap dance is as much a part of Americana as blue jeans, barbecue or the Statue of Liberty. While not as popular today as it was during its “Golden Age” from 1920 to 1940, the American art form has ...