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unusual facts about tap dancer



Ken Delo

His introduction to Lawrence Welk came from Arthur Duncan, the show's featured tap dancer who had known Delo from their days in Australia.

Martin Fong

Martin Fong is a film producer, director, cinematographer, stylist, actor, celebrity photographer, and is notable as one of the first major American tap dancers of Chinese descent to dance on the Las Vegas strip.


see also

Broadway Open House

Other Broadway Open House cast members were tap dancer Ray Malone, accordionist Milton DeLugg, announcer Wayne Howell and vocalists Jane Harvey, Andy Roberts and David Street.

Chitresh Das

In the San Francisco Bay Area, Chitresh Das and his Dance Company have been a mainstay of the local dance season and his company’s home season has included such masterpieces as “Gold Rush” (1990), “Sadhana” (1991), “East as Center” (2003), and his most recent award winning collaboration with tap dancer, Jason Samuels Smith, “IJS: India Jazz Suites” (2005 to present).

Derick K. Grant

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Grant began his training at the age of two at The Roxbury Center for the Performing Arts, and by the time he was eight years old, he has learned the "hoofin" style of tap from the master tap dancer Dianne Walker.

Drew Tyler Bell

A trained tap dancer, Drew, along with Rod Howell, created the online tap show Garage Tap in 2006, but it was cancelled after six episodes due to not having enough money and time to continue making new episodes.

Jamie Lynn

Jamie Pressnall (known as Jamie Lynn Pressnall, born 1976), tap dancer in the band Tilly and the Wall

Sidney Craig

Sidney Craig was a one-time child tap dancer who graduated from California State University, Fresno with a major in business and psychology.