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Tapniquetm
The tap technique part of Rad Tap r

                                "...is the missing link in tap dancing." 
                                                    Dance Teacher Now Magazine

"Rad Tap® is the real, natural way to tap dance, it's the future of tap." 
                                                              Sam Webber, of the Jazz Tap Ensemble

 "I use an amazing loose ankle tap dance technique called Tapnique  to make those fast sounds that everybody hears and nobody sees.      Eve Kahn, International Tap Association                                                                             


"This Tap technique is the very best I have even seen." 

Arthur Duncan

                                     

"RadTap is amazing." Donald O’Connor

                                                                                                                

"It's the future of tap."  Sam Webber

                                                            

"Rad tap is the missing link in tap...."   Dance Teacher Mag

Teachers use Rad Tap or Tapniquetm to improve skills and it gives them the technique tools they need to better teach their students how to tap like they were born dancing.  It also provides clients with advanced Supershuffle© choreography. 

In a nurturing environment, wearing extra comfortable shoes, with deeply relaxed muscle isolations, dancers and teachers learn how to trick their bodies back into natural accidents of released movement.  This movement produced all the original shuffles,riffles,walking riffs and much more. 

"It is ancient and cutting edge, I recommend this to serious tappers."  Lane Alexander

 This is the only workshop in the world teaching concealed Rad Tap Hidden Riffs©, Slug Slides©, Side Flips, Undertoes© and the amazingSupershuffle©

"That’s the first new thing I’ve seen in thirty years…" Honi Coles

 


Tapniquetm will blow your mind and free your body.

Fast natural tap dancing is not achieved by moveing your feet.

The sounds that appear to be made by the feet are actually  spiraling undulations  that flip out deeply relaxed legs.

Copying steps is a dead end search for your style.

Two brushes do not equal a shuffle.

Stop memorizing and start dancing


  • Effortless tap dancing is an amazing musical accident of the human body. It is a  natural musical magic trick originally discovered by untrained people with relaxed feet who couldn't tell us how it was actually done. Some of them were the most famous tap dancers in the world and were self taught.  Tapniquetm is the physical technique that they used to produce the fast effortless accidental sounds that nobody sees and everybody hears.

    Tapniquetm is the deep technique and technical understanding of the isolations and trigger points in your body that produce accidental extra sounds while moving in a deeply relaxed condition.

    The  magical sounds of tap dancing are the result of movement that starts in the shoulder, knee and hip. These natural comfortable trigger points of the body combined with the deep relaxation of the feet produce effortless shuffles, riffles, brush steps, walking riffs and much more.

    Your style is the magic of tap. Your style is found in your natural relaxed movement. RadTapâ dancers are musicians with our  full weight on the instrument. 
     
    We do not perform dance over music … we make music.

    Rad Tapâ is a state of mind with the clear technique to support it.
     

    Rad Tap Tapnique classes are nurturing and noncompetitive.


     


    Is Tapnique for you?

    The Rad Tap®training using Tapnique is designed for
    beginning and continuing adults (over 21 years) who
    want to develop their own style, get good or better at tap and achieve performance quality .

    Beginners, Performers and Teachers
    WELCOME

    To scheduleRad Tapâ Tapnique adult classes in San Francisco
    ( free comfortable state of the art tap shoes provided )
    you must call the SF Tap Dance Center.

    For current start dates emailto xtremetap.com.
    For more information call the
    San Francisco Tap Dance Center

    415 621 8277

    mailto:radtap@radtap.com

    Since 1973

     

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