Tap City

U.S. Postal Service Delivers Tap Dancing Back to Broadway

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Saturday, July 10, 2021

Postal Service issued the Tap Dance stamps today during the Tap It Out Tap City, New York City Tap Festival in Times Square.

Key Points: 
  • Postal Service issued the Tap Dance stamps today during the Tap It Out Tap City, New York City Tap Festival in Times Square.
  • Postal Service New York district manager and executive in charge.
  • By the 1920s, tap as we know it had fully emerged and was popular on the Broadway stage.
  • By the 1950s, interest in tap dancing was waning, but by the 1970s, aspiring tap dancers looked to their elders and learned from their skills and experience.