Tap dance
Tap dance is a form of dance characterized by using the sounds of tap shoes striking the floor as a form of percussion. Two major variations on tap dance exist: rhythm (jazz) tap and Broadway tap. Broadway tap focuses on dance; it is widely performed in musical theater. Rhythm tap focuses on musicality, and practitioners consider themselves to be a part of the Jazz tradition.
The sound is made by shoes that have a metal "tap" on the heel and toe. There are different brands of shoes which sometimes differ in the way they sound.
"Soft-Shoe" is a rhythm form of tap dancing that does not require special shoes, and though rhythm is generated by tapping of the feet, it also uses sliding of the feet (even sometimes using scattered sand on the stage to enhance the sound of sliding feet) more often than modern rhythm tap. It preceded what is currently considered to be modern tap, but has since declined in popularity.
History
Tap dance has roots in dancing such as Irish dancing, English Lancashire Clog dancing, and Juba Dance. It is believed to have begun in the mid-1800s during the rise of minstrel shows. Famous as Master Juba, William Henry Lane became one of the few black performers to join an otherwise white minstrel troupe, and is widely considered to be one of the most famous forebears of tap dance.
'Tap Dancer' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Waiting in the Wings: The Musical (2014)
Actors: Christopher Atkins (actor), Brian Bailey (actor), Frank Keith Barber (actor), Frank Keith Barber (actor), John Paul Batista (actor), John Paul Batista (actor), Lindsey Nicole Brehm (actor), Jim Brewster (actor), Kyle K. Chang (actor), Ralph Coppola (actor), Robert Cox (actor), Scott Danaher (actor), Thomas Davis (actor), Thomas Davis (actor), Eric B. Anthony (actor),
Plot: Waiting In The Wings: The Musical is a feature film where two entertainers, destined for the big time, are mismatched in a casting office from two very different online contests. Tony, a stripper from New York, is cast in an Off-Broadway musical and needs to trade in his tear-away trunks for tap shoes and tights. Anthony, a naive musical theatre enthusiast from Montana, needs to decide if he can strip all the way down just to stay in town. Hilarity ensues as they realize that "to make it" they're gonna have to learn some new tricks.
Keywords: sag-indieGenres: Comedy, Music, Musical,
Waiting in the Wings: The Musical (2014)
Actors: Christopher Atkins (actor), Brian Bailey (actor), Frank Keith Barber (actor), Frank Keith Barber (actor), John Paul Batista (actor), John Paul Batista (actor), Lindsey Nicole Brehm (actor), Jim Brewster (actor), Kyle K. Chang (actor), Ralph Coppola (actor), Robert Cox (actor), Scott Danaher (actor), Thomas Davis (actor), Thomas Davis (actor), Eric B. Anthony (actor),
Plot: Waiting In The Wings: The Musical is a feature film where two entertainers, destined for the big time, are mismatched in a casting office from two very different online contests. Tony, a stripper from New York, is cast in an Off-Broadway musical and needs to trade in his tear-away trunks for tap shoes and tights. Anthony, a naive musical theatre enthusiast from Montana, needs to decide if he can strip all the way down just to stay in town. Hilarity ensues as they realize that "to make it" they're gonna have to learn some new tricks.
Keywords: sag-indieGenres: Comedy, Music, Musical,
Soft Money (2005)
Actors: Henry Anderson (actor), Richard Antos (actor), Alan Baxter (actor), Edward Bradshaw (actor), Jay N. Brown Sr. (actor), Michael Dunn (actor), Mitchel Dvoskin (actor), Todd Felertag (actor), Patrick Flynne (actor), Héctor A. García (actor), Robert W. Greenberg (actor), Tim Holm (actor), Michael Kelber (actor), John Michael Kondor (actor), Matthew Anci (actor),
Plot: A sinister millionaire hires three thieves to rob his own bank of a million dollars in a safe deposit box. They pull off the dangerous heist but are double crossed by the banker, who takes it all. They discover that the banker is using the money to fund a corrupt politician so they devise an elaborate plan to get even.
Keywords: heist, satireGenres: Comedy, Crime, Thriller,
Taglines: The Crime Thriller that gives a bang for your buck!
The Secret Kingdom (1998)
Actors: Troy Michael Andrews (actor), Constantin Barbulescu (actor), Florin Chiriac (actor), Eugen Cristea (actor), Joe 'Cool' Davis (actor), Andrew Ducote (actor), Ronald Dulan (actor), Marius Galea (actor), Silviu Geamanu (actor), Ion Haiduc (actor), Mihai Niculescu (actor), Gerald S. O'Loughlin (actor), Billy O'Sullivan (actor), Daniel Pasleaga (actor), Rasheed Ali Akbar (actor),
Genres: Adventure, Sci-Fi,Taglines: There's a whole world of trouble under the kitchen sink!
Friends 'Til the End (1997)
Actors: Carmine Cangialosi (actor), Rob Cassell (actor), Cliff Dorfman (actor), Chasen Hampton (actor), James Hazley (actor), Charlie Heath (actor), Gregory Itzin (actor), Harry Lennix (actor), Paul Linke (actor), John Livingston (actor), Jason London (actor), Adam Marsland (actor), Steven Martini (actor), Zack Phifer (actor), Christopher Aguilar (actor),
Genres: Drama, Thriller,Quotes:
Suzanne Boxer: You can't win!::Heather Rumley: YOU can't stop me!Heather Rumley: You're ruining my life!
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Actors: John Arceri (actor), Robert Alan Beuth (actor), David Burdick (actor), Al Christy (actor), Billy Crystal (actor), Peter Day (actor), Charles Dugan (actor), Steven Ford (actor), David Giardina (actor), Nicholas Glaeser (actor), Kyle T. Heffner (actor), Bernie Hern (actor), Joseph Hunt (actor), Bruno Kirby (actor), Bob Ader (actor),
Plot: Harry and Sally meet when she gives him a ride to New York after they both graduate from the University of Chicago. The film jumps through their lives as they both search for love, but fail, bumping into each other time and time again. Finally a close friendship blooms between them, and they both like having a friend of the opposite sex. But then they are confronted with the problem: "Can a man and a woman be friends, without sex getting in the way?"
Keywords: 1970s, 1980s, 26-year-old, 31-year-old, airplane, airplane-trip, batting-cage, blonde, bookstore, bumping-into-ex-girlfriendGenres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: Can two friends sleep together and still love each other in the morning? Can men and women be friends or does sex always get in the way?
Quotes:
Sally Albright: Harry, you're going to have to try and find a way of not expressing every feeling that you have, every moment that you have them.Harry Burns: Repeat after me. Pepper.::Sally Albright: Pepper.::Harry Burns: Pepper.::Sally Albright: Pepper.::Harry Burns: Waiter, there is too much pepper on my paprikash.::Sally Albright: Waiter, there is too much pepper on my paprikash.::Harry Burns: But I would be proud to partake of your pecan pie.
Harry Burns: I've been doing a lot of thinking, and the thing is, I love you.::Sally Albright: What?::Harry Burns: I love you.::Sally Albright: How do you expect me to respond to this?::Harry Burns: How about, you love me too.::Sally Albright: How about, I'm leaving.
Harry Burns: I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
Harry Burns: You were going to be a gymnast.::Sally Albright: A journalist.::Harry Burns: Right, that's what I said.
Harry Burns: Why are you getting so upset? This is not about you.
Sally Albright: I don't have to take this crap from you.::Harry Burns: If you're so over Joe, why aren't you seeing anyone?::Sally Albright: I see people.::Harry Burns: See people? Have you slept with one person since you broke up with Joe?::Sally Albright: What the hell does that have to do with anything? That will prove I'm over Joe? Because I fuck somebody? Harry, you're gonna have to move back to New Jersey because you've slept with everybody in New York and I don't see that turning Helen into a faint memory for you. Besides, I will make love to somebody when it is making love. Not the way you do it like you're out for revenge or something.::Harry Burns: ...Are you finished now?::Sally Albright: ...Yes.::Harry Burns: Can I say something?::Sally Albright: Yes.::Harry Burns: ...I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Harry Burns: It is so nice when you can sit with someone and not have to talk.
Sally Albright: The first date back is always the toughest, Harry.::Harry Burns: You only had one date. How do you know it's not going to get worse?::Sally Albright: How much worse can it get than finishing dinner, having him reach over, pull a hair out of my head and start flossing with it at the table?::Harry Burns: We're talking dream date compared to my horror.
Jess: Emily is terrific.::Harry Burns: Yeah. But of course when I asked where she was when Kennedy was shot she said, "Ted Kennedy was shot?"::Jess: No.
Angel Heart (1987)
Actors: Murray Bandel (actor), Darrell Beasley (actor), Stephen Beasley (actor), Loys T. Bergeron (actor), Oscar Best (actor), Sugar Blue (actor), George Buck (actor), Oakley Dalton (actor), Robert De Niro (actor), Dann Florek (actor), Stocker Fontelieu (actor), Joshua Frank (actor), Charles Gordone (actor), Michael Higgins (actor), Joel Adam (actor),
Plot: Harry Angel has a new case, to find a man called Johnny Favourite. Except things aren't quite that simple, and Johnny doesn't want to be found. Let's just say that, amongst the period detail and beautiful scenery, it all gets really, really nasty.
Keywords: 1950s, amnesia, animal-abuse, animal-attack, animal-cruelty, ashtray, assault, atheist, ballpoint-pen, baptismGenres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller,
Taglines: It will scare you to your very soul. Harry Angel is searching for the truth... Pray he doesn't find it. Harry Angel has been hired to search for the truth... Pray he doesn't find it. Nothing can prepare you for the ending of Angel Heart.
Quotes:
Louis Cyphre: Are you an atheist?::Harry Angel: Yeah, I'm from Brooklyn.Louis Cyphre: Alas... how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise, Johnny?
Louis Cyphre: You know what they say about slugs. They always leave slime in their tracks.
Louis Cyphre: The flesh is weak, Johnny. Only the soul is immortal. [darkly] And yours belongs to ME.
Harry Angel: Hey, you ever watch the Mickey Mouse Club? 'Cause you know what today... today is? Today is Wednesday. It's anything can happen day.
Ethan Krusemark: You'd have enjoyed our gumbo.
Pastor John: I want you to show right now how much you love God! I want you to show as your tithe! I want you to open up your hearts! And open up your wallets! And open up your purses! And give it up! Praise the Lord! Somebody's been talking about me, talking about I've been riding around in a Cadillac! If you love me, and you wanna give to me, then I should be in a Rolls Royce!
Pastor John: Hallelujah! Permit me to be transmittable, Hallelujah! Permit me to be reincarnatable, Hallelujah! Permit me to be reproducible, Hallelujah! For His Kingdom is yours! Today! Right now! Follow me! Follow me! Follow me through His peace! Yes! Oh Hallelujah!
[repeated line]::Harry Angel: I gotta thing about chickens.
Louis Cyphre: They say there's enough religion in the world to make men hate each other, but not enough to make them love.
Angel Heart (1987)
Actors: Murray Bandel (actor), Darrell Beasley (actor), Stephen Beasley (actor), Loys T. Bergeron (actor), Oscar Best (actor), Sugar Blue (actor), George Buck (actor), Oakley Dalton (actor), Robert De Niro (actor), Dann Florek (actor), Stocker Fontelieu (actor), Joshua Frank (actor), Charles Gordone (actor), Michael Higgins (actor), Joel Adam (actor),
Plot: Harry Angel has a new case, to find a man called Johnny Favourite. Except things aren't quite that simple, and Johnny doesn't want to be found. Let's just say that, amongst the period detail and beautiful scenery, it all gets really, really nasty.
Keywords: 1950s, amnesia, animal-abuse, animal-attack, animal-cruelty, ashtray, assault, atheist, ballpoint-pen, baptismGenres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller,
Taglines: It will scare you to your very soul. Harry Angel is searching for the truth... Pray he doesn't find it. Harry Angel has been hired to search for the truth... Pray he doesn't find it. Nothing can prepare you for the ending of Angel Heart.
Quotes:
Louis Cyphre: Are you an atheist?::Harry Angel: Yeah, I'm from Brooklyn.Louis Cyphre: Alas... how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise, Johnny?
Louis Cyphre: You know what they say about slugs. They always leave slime in their tracks.
Louis Cyphre: The flesh is weak, Johnny. Only the soul is immortal. [darkly] And yours belongs to ME.
Harry Angel: Hey, you ever watch the Mickey Mouse Club? 'Cause you know what today... today is? Today is Wednesday. It's anything can happen day.
Ethan Krusemark: You'd have enjoyed our gumbo.
Pastor John: I want you to show right now how much you love God! I want you to show as your tithe! I want you to open up your hearts! And open up your wallets! And open up your purses! And give it up! Praise the Lord! Somebody's been talking about me, talking about I've been riding around in a Cadillac! If you love me, and you wanna give to me, then I should be in a Rolls Royce!
Pastor John: Hallelujah! Permit me to be transmittable, Hallelujah! Permit me to be reincarnatable, Hallelujah! Permit me to be reproducible, Hallelujah! For His Kingdom is yours! Today! Right now! Follow me! Follow me! Follow me through His peace! Yes! Oh Hallelujah!
[repeated line]::Harry Angel: I gotta thing about chickens.
Louis Cyphre: They say there's enough religion in the world to make men hate each other, but not enough to make them love.
Angel Heart (1987)
Actors: Murray Bandel (actor), Darrell Beasley (actor), Stephen Beasley (actor), Loys T. Bergeron (actor), Oscar Best (actor), Sugar Blue (actor), George Buck (actor), Oakley Dalton (actor), Robert De Niro (actor), Dann Florek (actor), Stocker Fontelieu (actor), Joshua Frank (actor), Charles Gordone (actor), Michael Higgins (actor), Joel Adam (actor),
Plot: Harry Angel has a new case, to find a man called Johnny Favourite. Except things aren't quite that simple, and Johnny doesn't want to be found. Let's just say that, amongst the period detail and beautiful scenery, it all gets really, really nasty.
Keywords: 1950s, amnesia, animal-abuse, animal-attack, animal-cruelty, ashtray, assault, atheist, ballpoint-pen, baptismGenres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller,
Taglines: It will scare you to your very soul. Harry Angel is searching for the truth... Pray he doesn't find it. Harry Angel has been hired to search for the truth... Pray he doesn't find it. Nothing can prepare you for the ending of Angel Heart.
Quotes:
Louis Cyphre: Are you an atheist?::Harry Angel: Yeah, I'm from Brooklyn.Louis Cyphre: Alas... how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise, Johnny?
Louis Cyphre: You know what they say about slugs. They always leave slime in their tracks.
Louis Cyphre: The flesh is weak, Johnny. Only the soul is immortal. [darkly] And yours belongs to ME.
Harry Angel: Hey, you ever watch the Mickey Mouse Club? 'Cause you know what today... today is? Today is Wednesday. It's anything can happen day.
Ethan Krusemark: You'd have enjoyed our gumbo.
Pastor John: I want you to show right now how much you love God! I want you to show as your tithe! I want you to open up your hearts! And open up your wallets! And open up your purses! And give it up! Praise the Lord! Somebody's been talking about me, talking about I've been riding around in a Cadillac! If you love me, and you wanna give to me, then I should be in a Rolls Royce!
Pastor John: Hallelujah! Permit me to be transmittable, Hallelujah! Permit me to be reincarnatable, Hallelujah! Permit me to be reproducible, Hallelujah! For His Kingdom is yours! Today! Right now! Follow me! Follow me! Follow me through His peace! Yes! Oh Hallelujah!
[repeated line]::Harry Angel: I gotta thing about chickens.
Louis Cyphre: They say there's enough religion in the world to make men hate each other, but not enough to make them love.
The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936)
Actors: Murray Alper (actor), William Arnold (actor), Henry Arthur (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Benny Goodman Orchestra (actor), Jack Benny (actor), Billy Bletcher (actor), Bob Burns (actor), George Burns (actor), Gino Corrado (actor), Ernest Cossart (actor), Louis Da Pron (actor), Harry Depp (actor), Benny Fields (actor), Larry Adler (actor),
Plot: A cream-of-the-crop gathering of 1930's radio stars, who lend themselves to a storyline about a failing radio station which needs to put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation. An interesting mixture of the stars whose fame continued to grow, those who became bit players in show business history, and those who have been forgotten entirely, except at the Internet Movie Database of course!
Keywords: number-in-titleGenres: Comedy,
Quotes:
Telephone Girl: With whom would you like an audition?::Bob Black: Leopold Stokowski.::Telephone Girl: Sorry, the maestro is in rehearsal.::Bob Black: Yeah, but where's Leopold Stokowski?::Telephone Girl: Mr. Stokowski is in rehearsal now.::Bob Black: When do you reckon would be a good time to see him?::Telephone Girl: Well, I suggest that you come back the second Tuesday in June 1984, at 6:00.::Bob Black: Thank you, lady. [Starts to leave, then comes back] Now lady, do you mean morning or afternoon?Jack Carson: I'm just a pilgrim on the path of least resistance.
