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Tap dancing for fun, fitness and entertainment

Tap classes provide a fantastic way to combine exercise, rhythm and coordination. The lively, rhythmic tapping sound made when the small metal plates on the dancer’s shoes touch a hard floor makes the performer not just a dancer, but also a percussive musician.

There are some basic things you will learn during your tap classes at STUDIO 19 Centre for Performing Arts and ballet academy in Eustis, Florida:

1. Tap shoes - Make sure your tap shoes are flexible and supportive of the foot. 
2. Posture - Stand tall with your weight slightly forward over your toes. Pull in the tummy muscles and tuck under your seat muscles, arms relaxed and chin and eyeline well lifted.
3. Relaxation - Relaxed knees and ankles make the tap sound so much better!
4. Tap tone and accent - There is no need to thrash the floor taping quietly with the odd louder moments makes tap more interesting to the ear 5. Time - Is the beat of the music which you dance to.
6. Tempo - The speed at which the music is played
7. Rhythm - This is where you can create patterns with tap steps to make unusual and intricate rhythms.
8. Timesteps - They are a series of steps to a repetitive rhythm, these develop throughout the grades from shuffle timesteps to pick-up timesteps and many more.
9. Tacit - This is where the music or the dancer is silent for a bar of music or more. When the music goes silent the dancer is expected to keep the rhythm going and be exactly on time when the music starts up again, very difficult sometimes.

Smile and enjoy your tap classes! Improve your fitness level and overall dancing ability.

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Students working at their full capacity

At STUDIO 19 Centre for Performing Arts and ballet academy in Eustis, Florida our students learn the art of dance with a major emphasis on self development, confidence, creativity and inner strength. We are renowned for our committment to high quality performance studies with dancers across all grades and disciplines, including modern, tap, jazz, hip hop and contemporary.

You can take dancing as a hobby or for fitness, you can also challenge yourself to reach your full potential by learning many styles of dance classes for adults. We strive to promote the joy of dancing to all students of all abilities. Whether you want to dance to learn and have fun or want to follow your dreams to their full potential, Studio 19 caters for all levels, from the recreational students to the more serious.
 
Come and enjoy our tap dance class. Our tap dance class is well constructed to allow our students to gain good musicality and tap dance fundamentals.  Apart from being an essential skill for the professional dancer, tap dancing is one of the most enjoyable and rhythmic forms of recreational dance as well as one of the most entertaining and challenging. It certainly develops a great sense of rhythm and some definite fast foot work.

You will not only enjoy your dancing and gain good technical skills but you will finish each tap dance class with a sense of satisfaction and achievement. Bring out the dancer in you!

Send us an Email or Contact us to discover the benefits that our classical ballet, hip hop lessons, tap lessons and contemporary dance classes will bring to you and the growth of your children