About Tap

Streaming video - 1985

Director George Nierenberg's brilliant and blissful follow-up to No Maps on my Taps features stylistic performances and recollections by three of America’s leading male tap dancers: Steve Condos, Jimmy Slyde and Chuck Green. Condos thinks himself an instrumentalist who focuses on the ankles and feet, while Slyde discusses “visual dancers” and Green advises the use of port de bras. With an introduction by Gregory Hines, ABOUT TAP introduces viewers to a unique history of dance and strives to answer the question, “How does an artist discover their own individual style?”