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Videos

Instructional and Performance Videos

Setting up your home tap practice area during a pandemic:


Part 1: Dealing with excess noise and floor scratching

Part 2: A safe surface for dancing

Part 3a: Visit to a building supply store

Part 3b: Visit continued




CURRENT CHOREOGRAPHY AND CLASSICS


Note from Howard: I regularly add material to this page. Nearly all of these are low-tech videos and mainly for my students (as opposed to something that the archivists at the Smithsonian would want).  The routines are listed by name in alphabetical order. The most popular videos, predictably, are the Shim Sham, 1927 BS Chorus and Eddie Brown BS Chorus. 


Routines in Alphabetical Order


Afinidad

Full run-through tempo

Steps One

Steps Two 

Steps Three


As Time Goes By

Part 1 w music

Rehearsal w Hannah


Black Beauty

Run-through

Breakdown -- First Half


Blue Skies -- County Basie

Part 1 with music

Part 1 breakdown of steps

Part 2 with music

Full dance with music


Blue Skies -- Bing Willie

Part 1 with music

Part 2 with music

Part 3 with music


Blue Skies -- MattyB

Part 1 with music

Part 2 steps


Blues in the Night

Steps 1 and 2 no music

Blues in Night, Part 2 breakdown, no music 

Blues in Night, Part 2 continuous no music 

Part 1 w music

Part 2 w music


1927 BS Chorus

(Breakdown of four-step dance as taught by Eddie Brown)


Charlie Freak

Part 1, w music (for beginners)


Come Rain or Come Shine (beginners routine)

Part 1 with music

Part 2 with music

Part 3 splits with music


Con Alma

Run Through with music


Disco Inferno

Part 1 with music


Eddie Brown BS Chorus

Slow run-through of steps


Dirty Laundry

Part 1 with music

Part 2 with music


Foggy Day (Brubeck)

First Step

Part 1 (after intro) with music

Most of Dance at 85% of tempo

Last Section


Honey Coles Softshoe (DaPron version)

With Music


Me and My Shadow Duet

Section 2, Part 1 with music

Section 2, Part 2 with music


Me and My Shadow Group Number

Section 1 with music

Section 2 with music

Section 3 with music


Shim Sham (as taught by Leonard Reed)

Steps with slow music

Steps without music


Summertime

Part 1 with music

Part 1 breakdown of steps

Part 2 with music

Part 2 Breakdown of steps


Toy Trumpet

Part 1 w music, slow tempo

Part 1 w music, full tempo

Beginning to Solo w music, slow tempo

Step breakdown, no counts, from R foot chugs up to start of step hops section

Step breakdown, step hops with counts


Archived choreography/Exercises

Here's a gangly Howard performing on TV decades ago. Was TV even in color back then? Ouch.

Con Alma

Run-Through (most of the dance)

Irish Heart

Trio Section

Joey

Run through with music, low-ish intermediate level 

Master Class 2012

Steps

Song of the Volga Boatmen

Run through with music. (The six steps back on the diagonal should be a pullback combo.) Intermediate level.

Spanish Flea

With Music


Thriller

Steps (Intermediate)


EXERCISES

Brushes and shuffles

Flaps and heels

Riffs and scuffles

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