Choreographer Mary Six Rupert instructs her students to let their fingers do the dancing. The former Rockette teaches a special Mount Sinai Hospital dance class for disabled patients called “Tap ...

Big band music plays over the speakers as pixie-haired Gloria Latimer’s tootsies click and clack across the onyx-colored flooring inside Ormao Dance Company. The longtime tap dancing teacher ...

For tap dancer Michelle Dorrance, it starts with the basics. “The history is present in the vocabulary we use, in the movement, in some of the rhythmic patterns and sensibilities,” said Dorrance, ...