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Tap Teachers deserve quick and easy access to new knowledge and fresh inspiration, so they can be the best teacher they can be for their students. Join Hillary-Marie from iTapOnline.com in the Lost in the Shuffle Tap Dance Podcast as she shares her top tips and tricks for Tap Teachers, in hopes of growing the tap dance community one passionate tap dancer at a time by supporting the tap teachers who educate them. Each episode is packed with quick answers to questions from tap teachers all aro ...
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Improve Your Improv Workshop (excerpt)
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Enjoy this FREE 30 minute excerpt from Hillary-Marie's Improve Your Improv Workshop (August 2021).Af Hillary Marie
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All Your Tap Improv Questions Answered
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Join Hillary-Marie as she answers all of your tap dance improv questions (literally). After receiving over 300 questions from tap dancers and tap teachers all around the world, Hillary-Marie shares with you the most common questions about improvisation, including questions about technique, musicality, tap jam etiquette, teaching, working with live …
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There is a HUGE difference between teaching kids and teaching adults. Join Hillary-Marie as she breaks down many of these key differences for you so that you can cater your classes to the needs of your students. Because knowing, recognizing, and appreciating the differences between these groups of dancers, will help you thrive as a teacher, and the…
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Bonus episode! Hillary-Marie shares some inspirational Mile Davis quotes.
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Hillary-Marie shares a crazy story about the time that she met Oprah with her mentor, Harold Cromer.Af Hillary Marie
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How do you know you're ready to start teaching? How do you know you're ready to start learning how to teach? How do you know you’ve had enough training to start teaching? How do you know your students are ready to learn how to teach? Join Hillary-Marie for answers to these questions!Af Hillary Marie
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Weekly Tap classes vs. Workshops. They’re both important in your tap dance journey… But how do you know which one your should be putting your energy and finances towards? Join Hillary-Marie as she discusses the differences between weekly classes and workshops like tap festivals, convention weekends, intensive weeks, and masterclasses... and what th…
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3 Common Tap Dance Corrections (and what they really mean)
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You need to sit in the pocket. You need to finish your phrase. You need to loosen up. Sound familiar? Hillary-Marie discusses three common tap dance-specific corrections, and what they REALLY mean.Af Hillary Marie
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How do you measure a successful dance class?
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This one's for all the Tap Teachers out there. Take a moment and ask yourself... what does an awesome tap class look like? How do you know that the class you taught was great? For years now, Hillary-Marie has noticed a trend of dance teachers measuring a successful dance class by the choreography their students are picking up at the end of class. T…
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Pullbacks. Wings. Toe stands. Over the tops. All the tricks! What order should they be taught in? What age/level should they be introduced? Hillary-Marie shares two things that are super important to keep in mind when teaching trick steps to yourself (and two things that you should avoid at all costs).…
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Tap dance levels are tricky business. Why? Because there is no standard level that is acknowledged by the Tap Dance Community at large. This means that what is considered Advanced in one place can often be considered Advanced Beginner in another. How do you label the levels of classes at a dance studio? What about at a Tap Festival? How do you know…
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Bonus episode! Looking for good leggings?
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5 Tips for Creating Choreo on Portable Tap Floors
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Hillary-Marie shares 5 Tips for Creating Choreo on Portable Tap Floors that will help you turn the portable floor into a tool of inspiration, rather than a damper on your creativity. Whether you're choreographing for yourself, or for your students to perform outdoors, or indoors at a convention that only has Marley available, or in a theater on a c…
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Hillary-Marie celebrates her 100th episode by talking about Tap Dance Dreams, including the the dreams of Tap Dancers all around the world, including her own, and how they've changed over time.Af Hillary Marie
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Wish you could pick up choreography faster? Need help remembering it? Hillary-Marie shares 3 tips and tricks on how to do exactly that!Af Hillary Marie
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Bonus episode! Check out this Netflix show for some Tap Dance.
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Hillary-Marie discusses the two types of jumps that every Tap Dancer needs, and why these jumps are the key reason for tap dancers getting stuck in their pullbacks, wings, over the tops, etc.Af Hillary Marie
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Tap Floors Part 3 - How to Refinish Your Floors
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So you've got a gorgeous sprung wood tap dance floor, and now it's time to refinish it... Here's a step-by-step process on how to do it.Af Hillary Marie
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Do you REALLY need to keep your heels OFF the floor?
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If you’ve ever heard someone say... “Keep your heels off the floor” “Get those heels up” “Make sure you’re on the balls of the feet” “Don’t let those heels touch the ground” “Get on the balls of your feet!” Then this episode is for YOU.Af Hillary Marie
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Tap Dance History is one of the most heavily debated topics in the Tap Dance Community. Understandably so, because the Tap Dance Community is passionate about the culture and history of the art form bring honored and recognized. Join Hillary-Marie in this episode as she shares her heaviest hitting takeaways from one of a recent deep dive into Tap D…
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This question comes up all the time during iTap Chats. How long should a tap class be? In this episode, Hillary-Marie dives deep into the structure of her program at Grooves Unlimited and iTapOnline, and the best class lengths for specific ages and levels.Af Hillary-Marie
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#091 What age should you start teaching Music Theory in Tap Class?
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Not sure when or how to introduce music theory into your tap classes? No worries! In this episode, Hillary-Marie gives you her top tips and tricks on incorporating music theory as a regular part of your weekly tap classes.Af Hillary-Marie
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#090 3 mistakes you might be making in your tap practice
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Hillary-Marie shares with you 3 mistakes you might be making in your tap dance practice time, and how to solve them quickly and easily so you can become the tap dancer you truly want to be.Af Hillary-Marie
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#89 How to Introduce Jazz Music into Tap Class?
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As more and more Tap Teachers learn about tap dance history, they’re appreciating the connection of tap dance to jazz music. And this often leads to the question... how do I incorporate Jazz music into my Tap classes? In today's episode, Hillary-Marie is going to give you easy tips and tricks on how to introduce jazz music into your weekly tap clas…
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#88 Tap Dancers' Top 3 Mistakes when Practicing Fast Footwork
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Do you ever find yourself wondering... How can I dance faster without missing my sounds? How do you teach speed and clarity? In this episode, Hillary-Marie gives you the answers you need by sharing with you the three most common mistakes that tap dancers make when approaching fast footwork and how to fix them.…
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#087 How and When to Use a Metronome in Tap Class
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Not sure when or how to use a metronome in your personal practice or tap classes? No worries! In this episode, Hillary-Marie gives you all the info you need on how, when and why to use a metronome.Af Hillary-Marie
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#086 How to capture the wandering attention of your tiny tap dancers?
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Hillary-Marie shares 3 tips to capturing the wandering attention of your tiny tap dancers.Af Hillary-Marie
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#085 What's the BIGGEST lesson your tap teacher ever taught you?
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Hillary-Marie and the iTapOnline Community answer the question... what's the biggest lesson that your tap teacher taught you?Af Hillary-Marie
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#084 5 Tips to Energize Your Teen Tap Classes
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Hillary-Marie shares 5 quick and easy tips on how you can energize your teen tap classes this week.Af Hillary-Marie
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#083 What I wish my tap teacher taught me...
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The iTapOnline Community answers the question... what's the ONE thing that you wish your tap teacher taught you?Af Hillary-Marie
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Do you ever feel like you've exhausted all your options for across the floor steps? Hillary-Marie shares with you an exercise that will make sure you never run out of across the floor exercises.Af Hillary-Marie
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#081 Tap Teacher Questions Answered
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Hillary-Marie answers tap teacher questions from the iTapOnline Community, including best tap shoes for student, how to help dancers dance lighter on their feet, and what tap shoes looked like back in the day.Af Hillary-Marie
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#080 Tips for Teaching Perfect Pullbacks
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Hillary-Marie shares her top tips and tricks for teaching your students crispy clean and perfect pullbacks.Af Hillary-Marie
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#079 Are your students using Tap Journals?
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Are your students using tap journals? In this episode, Hillary-Marie shares how tap journals have transformed her students' dedication to tap dance and how you can start using them in your classes this week.Af Hillary-Marie
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Hillary-Marie shares her favorite journaling exercise for shuffling into the New Year, with a Love It, Leave It and Learned It list.Af Hillary-Marie
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#077 Top 3 Tap Teacher Questions of the 2020 Year
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Check out the top 3 most popular episodes of the 2020 year!Af Hillary-Marie
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Hillary-Marie answers Tap Teacher's questions, including turns, wings and more.Af Hillary-Marie
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#075 How to Teach Proper Flap Technique
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Is your flap coming from the front or the back? Hillary-Marie discusses proper Flap technique.Af Hillary-Marie
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Taking a moment to give thanks for all things tap dance.Af Hillary-Marie
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#073 Why are there different names for the SAME Tap step?
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How did we end up with so many names for tap steps? Hillary-Marie discusses the inconsistency of tap dance vocabulary and how it relates to tap dance culture.Af Hillary-Marie
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#072 Are your students behind on their Tap Technique?
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Hillary-Marie answers an iTap Teacher's question on how to help students who are behind on their technique.Af Hillary-Marie
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#071 The Secret to How My Students Learn SO Quickly
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Hillary-Marie discusses one of the secrets to why and how her students learn SO quickly.Af Hillary-Marie
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#070 Why We Did NOT Dance Outside during COVID
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Hillary-Marie discusses why she didn't take her tap classes outside right away, and instead chose to wait it out to reopen indoors (and why her patience paid off).Af Hillary-Marie
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#069 Tap Teacher Questions Answered
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Hillary-Marie answers Tap Teachers' questions, including how to socially distance your tap classes, the best mask to teach in, everything you need for an awesome Hybrid Tap class, camera angles, tech equipment and more.Af Hillary-Marie
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#068 4 Tips for Tap Dancing in a Mask
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Hillary-Marie shares for tips for tap dancing in a mask.Af Hillary-Marie
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BONUS: Shout Out to iTap Teacher Monica
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#067 Tap Teacher Questions Answered
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Hillary-Marie answers Tap Teacher's questions, including how to build rapport with students who are Zooming into class that you've never met before, how to not get exhausted teaching over Zoom, Google Meet vs. Zoom, and tips for finding teaching jobs.Af Hillary-Marie
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#066 How to Teach an Awesome Hybrid Tap Class
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I’ve just finished my first week of teaching Hybrid style classes at my studio, Grooves Unlimited (Livingston, NJ), and it was AWESOME. If you’re a Tap Teacher who’s set up for Hybrid this season, I want to share with you guys some tips and tricks on how to make this awesome class for both you and your students. Click here to learn more about the U…
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