American Tap Dance

Name: American Tap Dance
Start: 2026-09-20T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-20T16:30:59+02:00
Location: Öblarner Haus für Alle

Sunday 20 September · 10:00Öblarner Haus für Alle · steiermark

What's it about?

10:00 12:30 WS 1: 55,- for beginners 14:00 16:30 WS 2 55,- for participants with prior knowledge Workshop 1 + Workshop 2 95,- Course location: ÖHA großer Saal The main focus of this beginner workshop is on teaching the basic steps. The most important steps and sounds, as well as one of the best-known and most popular step combinations, will be learned in a playful way. There will also be room to incorporate one's own ideas and improvisations into the dance sequences. History of Tap Dance: American tap dance originated in the 19th century in the USA from a fusion of the dance styles of Irish immigrants and West African slaves these worked on the plantations of the Southern states and were punished if they used drums, so they began instead to express the complex rhythms of their cultures by stamping their feet and their bodies. The Irish dancers brought the precise footwork, while the African-American styles brought complex rhythms and improvisations. Artists like Bill "Bojangles" Robinson shaped the dance in Hollywood films and the jazz clubs of the 1930s. Today, tap dance is an internationally recognized art form. Seminar leader: Renate Gebhard, dancer and actress. 10 years of tap dance lessons with Karin Ould Chih and workshops with Lane Alexander (Chicago). Renate comes from the Stuttgart area and has been living in Salzburg for 2 years. Until 2011, she performed at various off-theaters in Germany, directed amateur theater groups, and teaches tap dance (also for children). What to bring: Comfortable clothing Closed shoes without heels, "loud shoes" (with cleaned leather or hard rubber soles so that sounds can be heard) If you have tap dance shoes, you are welcome to bring them, but please tape the metal plates with duct tape to protect the floor.