Betty Markowitz has taught tap to senior citizens for more than two decades. "Seniors don't have to stop and lie on the couch ...

A gray-haired woman shuffles across the room, bending down to watch her feet on every step as if she's not sure what they might do next. Vicki Riordan belts out instructions to her, then calls, ...

As presidential inauguration festivities unfolded Friday morning in Washington, D.C., Charlee Zamudio-Fidler led more than a dozen seniors in an inaugural beginner tap dance class in Jackson Township.

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, ...

Observing Alexis Robbins’s Friday evening tap class, held on the top floor of Building 5 at Erector Square on Peck Street, one has to wonder if the people one floor below — and perhaps the people ...

Alan Rubinstein (above left) and Pat Brown are first-time tappers inspired by "La La Land," below, starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. Brian Zak Ryan Gosling’s jazz pianist in “La La Land” may be ...

As adults, we often only get a chance to do our best John Travolta, Janet Jackson or Fred Astaire impressions at weddings and other special events. We think of “dance class” as the realm of leotards ...