Tap Dancing is the Story of America: Steve Zee at TEDxSoCal
Steve Zee, world-class tap dancer and candidate for president of the United States, performs regularly to sold out houses at the M Bar in Hollywood, CA.
Steve has danced with Gregory Hines and the Nicholas Brothers and has shared the bill with numerous tap notables. He has been a featured soloist in the Jazz Tap Ensemble, a member of Rhapsody In Taps and he has performed and taught across the United States, Canada, Brazil, France and Germany.
Steve's choreography is performed by professional dance companies and youth groups across the United States, Europe and South America and was featured at the Beijing International Dance Festival. He trained Kiril Kulish for the Broadway production of Billy Elliot for which Kiril won the Tony Award and has served as tap coach for pop icons David Lee Roth, Bette Midler and Toni Basil.
As a theater artist, Steve trained at UCLA, the Sorbonne/Université de Paris III and with the Piccolo Teatro di Milano. By the way, if you've ever seen tap dancing Hershey's Kisses on your television, then you have heard Steve dance!
Steve is on faculty in the dance department at Cal State University, Long Beach where he teaches a tap dance history course in addition to regular studio dance classes. He teaches ongoing weekly classes at the Tap Academy in Santa Monica, the Dance Arts Academy in Los Angeles and for the Gabriella Foundation in Los Angeles. He is the director of the nonprofit arts organization, LA Ironworks.
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always a pleasure to see Steve, whether performing, speaking, or both. love what he has done for the world of tap and all he has contributed to preserve tap's legacy in our culture.
Tap dancing and history and Ted Talk. 3 of my favorite things in one.
Nicholas Brothers are best of all time!
I took Steve Zee's "History of Tap Dancing" class at CSULB--the guy knows what he's talking about. Always a pleasure to hear/see him.
This ranks in my top 10 favorite TED talks of all time. And I'm not just saying that because I'm a tap dancer! Great stuff!! Kudos to the TED team for having Steve Zee as one of their presenters.
@charleyhogan5284
3 жыл бұрын
Found you
@aarongrooves
3 жыл бұрын
Tag!
@stephensandham4919
6 ай бұрын
Hello Aaron! I am a performer from Ohio and grew up doing swing dancing. We danced the shim sham each month and I wanted to get better. I found your tutorial and it was so helpful! Thank you good sir!
@aarongrooves
4 ай бұрын
@@stephensandham4919 That's amazing! I made that tutorial for some music educator friends, and I'm so glad it was helpful. Hope to shim sham together some day!
Don't forget English clubbing and Scottish Highland dance also gave to tap dance. African: the open legs, stepping forward. Irish: cross legs, tap behind with toes English: stomping, stamping Scottish: hooping and jumping.
Steve Zee ROCKS!!! Great presentation! Full of great history and tap knowledge.
Loved this!
Wonderful presentation. A 15-minute tease, really . . . . coulda listened for another 3 hours!
Loved it!! thx Zee
That was very interesting and informative. Thank you
I love tap!
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Excellent
Tap technique and great historical information. But not complete information. Eleanor Powell could outdance Fred Astaire all day long.
@bluedancelilly
6 жыл бұрын
He said he couldn't include all of the history.
awesome video! I have a new video I posted called "motivation" just starting to post more and more videos like once a week! check it out! hope you like it!
Complete and utter nonsense, tap dancing was developed from clogging or clog dancing, taken to America by English settlers, they wore English clogs , wooden soles with steel plates and leather uppers, it it nothing to do with the Irish or Africans.
@aarongrooves
4 ай бұрын
Not nonsense. There are dozens of percussive dance styles that humans have independently created over the millennia. Tap dance began on plantations and especially developed after American slaves had their drums banned. Minstrelsy was a huge part of the spread and evolution of tap dance, with Thomas "Daddy" Rice becoming an international star, even taking his Jumping Jim Crow routine (which he learned from watching enslaved African Americans) on European tours. Tap dance in particular is an African American dance in origin, but it took on a life and evolution of its own, and many people (and peoples) have contributed to it. It's still evolving...
@hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo
4 ай бұрын
@@aarongroovesJust not true, it developed from traditional indigenous English clog dancing, i never knew Africans had steel taps on their English clogs.
@aarongrooves
4 ай бұрын
@@hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo Ahh, you're trolling. Gotcha.
@hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo
4 ай бұрын
@@aarongrooves You've got nothing, i'm just stating facts.
@aarongrooves
4 ай бұрын
@@hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo Facts based on...? Your word?