TAP HAPPY! Adult Tap Dance Classes with Sara Draper (Tuesdays & Thursdays) UPDATED

TAP HAPPY!  GET FIT AND HAVE FUN! Adult Tap Dance Classes with Sara Draper.

Ongoing community classes in tap dance are offered by Sara to adults, with special classes planned especially with seniors in mind. Introductory through intermediate levels continue throughout the year. This joyous American art form attracts and creates its own community of health-conscious people who want to enjoy the dance they’ve loved watching in Hollywood movies and Broadway shows. These classes provide adults of all ages (twenty-one and up) with their own environment separate from teen and children’s classes.

SUMMER 2014 CLASS DATES:

Tuesday Classes (8-week terms):
June 3 – July 22           

Thursday Classes (8-week terms):
June 5 – July 24

Thursday 4-Week Intro Class:
June 5 – June 26

For schedule updates, visit the website.

Daytime tap classes for adults also available. Click here for more information.

Tap Style:

The style focuses on the chorus-line tradition of Broadway but provides an excellent foundation for any style of tap, including rhythm tap and jazz tap. These classes are excellent for preparing for auditions for musical theater productions. Sara is able to coach students in a full range of styles, arms, turns, and techniques to assist in advanced and professional performance.

Sara’s Tap Dance Background:

Sara Draper is a dance artist/educator based in Houston. She studied tap throughout most of her childhood and then continued with Camille Hill (a mentor to Tommy Tune), Judy Robbins, and master classes and workshops with Louie DaPron in Hollywood, Bill Evans in Texas and Washington, and with Jimmy Slyde, Savion Glover, Diane Walker, and other tap greats.

Sara’s professional tap performances include choreography by Camille Hill; the 1989 Houston Grand Opera production of The Mikado; and her own choreography such as Those Dancin’ Shoes (1986). She choreographed Hooray for Hollywood (1988, JCC) and The Club (1981, Main Street Theater) and countless student productions, including musicals such as Anything Goes.

Sara began teaching tap to adults in 1974, and has enjoyed this work at Carla Reeves School of Dance, the Jewish Community Center, Claire School of Dance, University of Houston community education, and at HCC Spring Branch. She taught tap to children at the studios above and at Houston Academy of Dance, YWCA, City Dance Studio, Bonnie Siscoe School of Dance, and St. John’s School. She currently teaches the Golden Girl Tappers and Adult Beginning Tap at the JCC, and owns Tap Happy, where she offers tap classes for adults in the Heights area of Houston.

All Tuesday and Thursday classes will be held at our regular Heights studio:

Claire School of Dance
Grace United Methodist Church
1245 Heights Blvd.
Houston, Texas 77008

ALSO AVAILABLE:  TAP AEROBICS Wed. 7:15 – 8:15PM.