Its steps, movements and storytelling were cultivated through minstrel and vaudeville acts and energized ... The Merrimack ...

Traveling acts still plied their trade throughout the extensive network of small-town theaters and venues once known as vaudeville ... economics of tap dancing took a stumble during and just after ...

Last winter, Michelle Dorrance and her company tap-danced to “The Nutcracker Suite” in the White House. In a Christmas video first lady Jill Biden posted on X last year, tap dancers dressed as flowers ...