Compare and Contrast
Tap Shoes Clogging shoes
Tap and Clogging is not the same
thing but they are similar. Tap is a sound that you make with your tap shoe and
the floor. Clogging is an old dance where you make contact with the floor and
your clogging shoe. The differences between them are they make different
sounds. These two dance styles are the hardest. At least they are the hardest
for me anyways.
Tap and clogging are different
because tap dancing is light on their feet. Clogging is mostly on their heels.
Tap is usually in a solo also, it’s never really in a group. Tap is the melody
of a song. Clogging is an up and down body and is done in groups. Clogging is
to the beats of the song. This information came from dance.about.com
Clogging dance has different
heritages like Irish, Cherokee Indian and others. Appalachian Mountain is where
clogging started. The others brought
their steps to the Appalachian and they mixed their steps together which made
clogging. Clogging has less than ten basic movements. To make more movements to
clogging they add on steps they make with traditional ones. Clogging is always
done with lively music. Blue grass is the traditional music for clogging. Now
people will clog to whatever they want as long as they can make the sounds out
to be clear.
Tap dancing developed in the United
States in the 19th century. "Black and whites both experienced tapdancing". Tap shoes and the tapper can
make sounds with a slide, tap, stomp and click of the metal plate. When dancing
to Jazz music Tap is focused on the music more than the dance. Broadway Tap is focused
more on the dance.
Tap and Clogging is similar because
they both have similar steps. Some steps are the same but they sound different.
Both shoes for tap and clogging have metal pieces at the bottom of their shoes.
They both can dance to anything to make beats. Clogging and Tap have
traditional dancing also. Sometimes cloggers do wear tap pieces on the bottom
of their shoes to make a clearer sound.
I think that you picked a great topic to do your blog post on. People always get confused on the difference between tap and clogging.
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