TAP DANCE QUESTION! Do your toes make contact with the floor when you shuffle?
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I've been told that it's the ball of your foot that contacts the floor when you shuffle forward and backward. Does that mean your toes/toe area in front of the ball of your foot should not make any contact with the floor? How do you achieve this (that is: avoiding touching the floor with your toes/toe area in front of the ball, whilst still making contact with the ball of your foot)? Many thanks! Any advice or direction is greatly appreciated!
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Answer:
no the tip of your toe does not touch the floor when you shuffle. it should just be the bottom of your foot. if you start with the foot right under your body you should have no problem keeping you toe from touching the ground. If your toe is touching the ground in the begining of the shuffle you are probably putting your foot too far back before your foot hits the ground. Try to keep your foot as paralell with the floor as possible. you may be bending you ankle too much. I hope this helped (I have not taken tap recently but I did a couple years ago so It was a little hard to explain)
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Other answers
Yes, it is the ball of your foot that touches the floor when you shuffle. The reason being, is that if we shuffled with our toes, it would create a scratching/scraping sound with the floor as opposed to the desired snappy sound. Now, the top of your foot may still make contact with the floor sometimes, but the focus is on the ball. First, relax your ankles. Don't tense when you're trying to tap in general. When I first started tapping, I had trouble with this and I wouldn't be making the right sounds or executing the step correctly. So let your ankles free a bit. Not so loosey-goosey that they are flopping everywhere, but enough to move easily. Second, think about rotation. As you shuffle, you're supposed to make a tiny rotation inward, in other words, towards your supporting leg. It gives the shuffle some dimension, both to the ears and to the eyes. And it's easier to execute than a straight shuffle. Hope this helps.
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