Despite the Great Depression, enrollment soared at tap dance schools throughout the country.
"Take voice lessons, or go to tap-dance school, or even go to Europe and learn something".
There was showbiz in the family: his mother ran a tap-dance school in the basement of their building while his father (who'd anglicised their Italian family name from Masciarelli) directed industrial films.
Even so, there are times when Clinton has had to perform a tap dance, embracing "the Clinton school of economics" while carefully distancing herself from portions of her 69-year-old husband's legacy.
If it was tap dancing, he'd take tap dance.
They poked fun at the fashion crowd's need for entertainment, presenting the clothes on tap dancers they discovered at an Amsterdam dance school.
You admitted that you once did a tap dance to the song "Stray Cat Strut" to win a high-school talent contest.
The dance school and its parent organization, the Dance in Education Fund, are based in two large studios, where new offerings for adults and children include tap, musical theater, hip-hop and yoga.
I fought for a few: "But she has a 4.0 at veterinary school, and this one teaches autistic kids to tap dance!" Drew was unmoved.
On this campus, football comes first with the guys, football players come first with the coeds — yes, that's what female students were called back then — and school events usually culminate in ecstatic eruptions of tap dance.
Meanwhile, the school has started running extra classes, including jazz dance, tap dance and musical theatre.
