On Broadway: put a line of tap dancers on stage, and the show stops--guaranteed. From: Dance Magazine | Date: May 1, 2004| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2004 Dance Magazine, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Throughout most of the 1920s, '30s and and '40s, tap ruled Broadway musicals. It was the dance vernacular, a home-grown popular entertainment that had sprung from the uniquely American intersection of African and Irish dance forms. With its upbeat rhythms, relaxed posture and freewheeling energy, tap seemed to breathe the air of democracy--especially once it migrated from the country's theater stages to its even more popular movie screens.

But when the forces unleashed by Agnes de Mille and Jerome Robbins transformed the dance element in musical theater from a pleasant ...

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