Tap Dance Workshops

The workshop will teach participants how to tap dance and explore the history and development of the art form through videos and lectures with Ms. Mandy Petty, a professional artist who has been involved in the performing arts industry for over 40 years and has received the 25th Hong Kong Dance Awards Lifetime Achievement Award. Participants will learn to use their shoes to create various sounds and rhythms, as well as different dance combinations.

DETAILS

Date: Feb 21; Feb 28; Mar 7; Mar 14; Mar 28; Apr 11, 2025 (Friday)

Time: 1830-2030

Venue: The Jockey Club Global Graduate Tower (GGT) in room G19 Multi-Purpose room

Lesson 1: Feb 21, 2025 

Part 1: How to use the shoes to make simple sounds and rhythms (1 & 2 sounds): Heel, ball, stamp, step, flap, shuffle, ball change, pick-up

Part 2: What is Tap Dance and how did it begin?

Lesson 2: Feb 28, 2025

Part 1: Review steps from L1 and begin to combine them

Part 2: The Copasetics and The Cotton Club
 

Lesson 3: Mar 7, 2025

Part 1: Review steps from L1 & L2 and combine in longer combinations.

Part 2: Fred Astaire & Gene Kelly
 

Lesson 4:  Mar 14, 2025

Part 1: Continue to review steps from earlier classes, adding new vocabulary and combinations. Stylised combinations from musicals such as 42nd Street, Crazy for You and Anything Goes

Part 2: Musicals featuring Tap Dance

Lesson 5:  Mar 28, 2025

Part 1: Continue to review steps from earlier classes, adding new vocabulary and combinations. Stylised combinations from musicals such as 42nd Street, Crazy for You and Anything Goes

Part 2: Current international practitioners of Tap Dance

Lesson 6: Apr 11, 2025

Part 1: Recap and perform all steps and combinations learnt throughout the course, to family and friends.        

Part 2: The development of tap dance in HK

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REMARKS 

• This is a recognized event in the “Personal Enrichment & Community Service” category under the "Self-directed Experience" of HMAW1905: Behavioral Foundations of University Education: Habits, Mindsets, and Wellness. To receive 7.5 hours, you must attend the event in full and miss no more than 10 mins.

• Language: English 

• Fee: Free of Charge

• Participants are required to submit a refundable deposit of HK$200 (*Cash only), which will be returned upon successful completion of ALL classes. If the participant cannot attend all lessons, the deposit will be forfeited and used to offset the workshop operation expense (e.g. publicity printing)

• Interested participants are required to submit an online application and complete the payment by visiting Room 203, Shaw Auditorium within one week in order to secure their spot.

• Quota: 20 (For HKUST students and staff only)

• The organizer reserves the right in its sole discretion to make changes to the event program without prior notice. 
  主辦方保留自行決定更改活動的權利，恕不作另行通知。