Autumn 2024
Changes

Dear Tap Happy Community Members,

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More big changes are coming to Tap Happy!

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Tap Happy was nomadic in the summer of 2024.  It has been on break since then.

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Thank you for your patience as Tap Happy undergoes some technological changes.

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Tap Happy Video Supplement:

• $20 for online access for the level in which you are enrolled through the end of 2023.

 

HOW TO REGISTER AND PAY 

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Follow these simple steps to register and pay:

 

1. Email Sara here and let her know which course you'd like to take.

2. Find the two forms from Tap Happy in your email Inbox.  Complete them using your keyboard; save; and attach them to your Reply email.

3. Use the “Buy Now” yellow button in the lower right footer at the bottom of any website page.

4. Pay the full amount due for your plan by 4:00pm on the day of your first lesson, at the latest.

5. Or, if using the Drop-In plan, pay by the day before your lesson.

 

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Course Descriptions

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Introductory Tap     NOT CURRENTLY OFFERED

INSTRUCTOR: Sara Draper | LEVEL: Absolute beginner

This class is for absolute beginners, even if this is your first dance class ever.  It is also a methodical review of fundamentals for those returning to tap dance after a very long break. A brand new session of weekly classes will introduce fun-loving adults who have always wanted to tap dance to the fundamentals, so you can begin fulfilling your dream now.  Sample tap dance in January, or get the entire 8-week course to prepare for the next level.

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Fast Beginning I Tap     NOT CURRENTLY OFFERED

INSTRUCTOR: Sara Draper | LEVEL: Progress to this after Intro Tap

The next step after Intro, here tappers learn two long combinations and a dance number to help practice skills and basic steps including soft shoe, waltz clog, and more.  Reinforcing and continuing from the Introductory level, this energizing course allows you to really get the basics under your belt and to learn a dance routine.  It prepares you to shuffle up to the next level!  This course will move quickly through Beg I material and may segue

into Beg II material.

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Beginning II Tap      NOT CURRENTLY OFFERED

INSTRUCTOR: Sara Draper | LEVEL: Progress to this after Beginning I Tap.

After getting basics under your belt in Beginning I, this course moves you up to the next level.  You'll learn popular, standard steps, more advanced technique, and a variety of routines as you move through a year's worth or so of Beginning II level courses. Arms, style, and formations are honed here. You'll feel like you're "shuffling off to Buffalo" with Broadway and Hollywood tap dancing stars!

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Intermediate Tap      NOT CURRENTLY OFFERED

INSTRUCTOR: Sara Draper | LEVEL: Progress to this after Beg Tap II

Our most advanced level, this class accommodates tappers beyond the Beginning II level who love to learn dance routines. Interesting new steps, syncopation, turns, and full-body dancing are features of this exhilarating class.  Jazz, swing, and Broadway tunes accompany our dancing.  

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