AS SOON AS I heard the sharp clicketyclack of my teacher’s tap shoes on the floor, I was smitten. People look joyful when tap dancing for a reason. Dancing boosts energy. Add in the satisfying, ...

Ebony Cross was only a third-grader when she made her two best friends take tap-dancing lessons with her. Now, at 17, Cross drags them to tap lessons half an hour early and does impromptu practice ...

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 ...