From a back room in the Harman Senior Center, past bingo flyers and bridge games, musical taps and laughter echoed across the hardwood floor. A handful of women, mostly retirees, gathered in a dance ...

A gray-haired woman shuffles across the room, bending down to watch her feet on every step as if she's not sure what they might do next. Vicki Riordan belts out instructions to her, then calls, ...

My friend Ann puts me to shame by always trying new activities. She recently sent me a picture of one of them, her tap dance class, at their recital at Dance Corner in West Windsor. Her classmates, ...

PINEVILLE - Pam Green's philosophy about the tap class she teaches at the Louisiana Athletic Club in Pineville is simple. Have fun. "It's just a great group of ladies with a common interest," said ...

Eighty-five-year-old Marian Steele's feet beat is racing. As her tap-clad shoe soles rebound snappily off the stage floor, they resound like intoxicating drumbeats. It's a joyful noise, a rap of the ...

Barry Thomas remembers a particularly strict tap dance teacher who always told him, “If you can’t say it, you can’t do it.” And though at the time he’d mentally flipped her off, it’s now become one of ...

In the last 38 years, Henderson-area resident Lori Day has danced her way into the hearts of many. From children to seniors, Day has taught 15 to 25 jazz and tap dance classes a week since 1976. “It’s ...

Bored with the gym and tennis lessons, Marianna Orro was looking for a new exercise. She heard about a tap dance class and signed up with a friend at a studio outside Cleveland. In the middle of her ...

Do you dream of living to 100? Or is the thought of creaking into old age repugnant? If you dread aging, you might change your mind after meeting Louise Walker, the dance teacher who turns 100 on ...

Now here's something we don't see and hear every day: nearly two dozen people tap dancing outside. On most Saturday mornings, their novel sounds and smiles fill Riverbend Park in Cambridge near ...