Beginner Tap Class with Felipe Galganni Mondays at 6:15pm
Hello everyone!
Welcome to our in-person beginner level tap dance class. In this class, we will focus on improving technique, musicality, and choreography. These classes are open for drop-ins, but make sure to register before attending. The maximum capacity for this class is 25 people.
Join us on Mondays from 6:15-7:30 PM for a 75-minute class at Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana. The studio is located at 4 West 43rd Street Suite 608, New York, NY 10036. The class will be held in Studio A and the cost is $22 per class.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Thank you!
Felipe Galganni
Advanced Beginner Tap Class with Felipe Galganni Mondays at 7:30pm
Hello everyone!
Welcome to our in-person advanced beginner level tap dance class. In this class, we will focus on improving technique, musicality, and choreography. These classes are open for drop-ins, but make sure to register before attending. The maximum capacity for this class is 25 people.
Join us on Mondays from 7:30 to 8:45 PM for a 75-minute class at Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana. The studio is located at 4 West 43rd Street Suite 608, New York, NY 10036. The class will be held in Studio A and the cost is $22 per class.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Thank you!
Felipe Galganni
Short Tap Combo 1
You can learn it from an instructional tap video where I will be teaching you from the comfort of your home.
The advantage of having a video is that you can always go back if you didn't get it and also re-watch as many times as you need. You will have this video FOREVER for you own practice!
Suggested music: Don't Go Breaking My Heart
Duration of the video: 16 minutes
Short Tap Combo 2
Have you ever dreamt about dancing in a Hollywood Golden Age movie?
This week's Short Tap Combo is sweet, swingy and very fun dance to Sinatra's Fly me to the Moon. You can learn it from an instructional tap video, where I will be teaching you from the comfort of your home.
This combo I created for advanced beginner level and it's broken down into four sections. You will get to practice your slurps, shuffles, flaps, waltz-clogs, toe heels, paddle-and-rolls, in different speeds and syncopations (lots of triplets!) throughout the dance.
You can learn it from an instructional tap video, where I will be teaching you from the comfort of your home.
Duration: two files of approximately 14 minutes each.
Short Tap Combo 3
It's time to tap dance to a nice Brazilian samba!
This week's Short Tap Combo is a fun, dynamic, uplifting dance to Gilberto Gil's Aquele Abraço.
I created this combo for the intermediate level, and it's broken down into four sections. You will get to practice your riffs, flaps, running shuffles, grab offs, toe heels, and of course - the samba step! All of that in a faster speed and syncopations (lots of 16th notes) throughout the dance.
You can learn it from an instructional tap video, where I will be teaching you from the comfort of your home.
Duration: two files, one of17 minutes and one of 12 minutes.
Short Tap Combo 4
How about a Latin Rhythm Tap combination to warm your week up?
This week's Short Tap Combo is a spicy, syncopated, fun dance to Arturo O'Farrill and Claudia Acuna's version of Cuando Cuando.
I created this combo for the advanced beginner level, and it's broken down into four sections. You will get to practice your shuffles, paddle and rolls, flaps, toe heels, cramp rolls and flap heels in different speeds and syncopations (lots of straight notes and three-and-a-break) throughout the dance.
You can learn it from an instructional tap video, where I will be teaching you from the comfort of your home.
Duration: Two files of approximately 12 minutes each.
Short Tap Combo 5
Do you want to practice wings and pullbacks? If your answer is YES this week's combo is for you 😎
This Short Tap Combo is a swingy, syncopated, sweet dance to Dizzy Gillespie's version of On The Sunny Side of the Street.
I created this combo for the intermediate and advanced levels, and it's broken down into four sections. You will get to practice your double pullbacks, single wings, wing change, one leg pullback, grab offs, paddles, toe heels and more in different syncopations (lots of triplets and swing eighth notes) throughout the dance.
Duration: One video of 18 minutes
Short Tap Combo 6
This week's Short Tap Combo is a swingy waltz! We are dancing to the Jitterbug Waltz, version by Swing Gitane. I created this combo for the advanced beginner level and it's broken down into four sections. You will get to practice your waltz-clog, press-cramp-rolls, paddle-and-rolls, rhythm turn, shuffles, flaps, toe heels and more in different syncopations (lots of triplets, and swing eighth notes) throughout the dance.
Duration: One video of 25 minutes
TAP WARM-UP
OMG! Now we can warm-up together 😃
After receiving a few messages from some of you asking for a warm-up video I finally created one and I am so excited to share it with you! This is a guided warm-up where you will get a chance to work on your single sounds (toes, heels, steps and stamps), toe heels and dig toes, paddles and shuffles (in 8th notes, triplets and 16th notes) It was really cool elaborating these exercises with music. It goes from slow to very fast tempo and it's really fun!
Duration: one video of 19 minutes
Short Tap Combo 7
How about a safe trip to Ipanema Beach? This week's Short Tap Combo is a light, sweet dance to Jobim's classic -The Girl From Ipanema - Yes! Bossa Nova!
I created this combo for the beginner and advanced beginner levels, and it's broken down into four sections. You will get to practice your shuffles, riffs, paddle-and-rolls, toe heels, flap heels and more (lots of triplets and eighth notes) throughout the dance.
You can learn it from an instructional tap video where I will be teaching you from the comfort of your home.
Duration: one video of 30 minutes
Short Tap Combo 8
How about taking the A train with me? Don't worry - we will be wearing masks! 😷
This week's Short Tap Combo is a fun, uplifting dance to Billy Strayhorn's classic jazz standard Take the A Train.
I created this combo for the advanced beginner level and it's broken down into four sections. You will get to practice your waltz-clogs, crossover, draw-back, paddle-and-rolls, cramp-rolls, toe heels, flap heels, shuffles and more (lots of triplets and swing eighth notes) throughout the dance.
Duration: one video of 25 minutes
Short Tap Combo 9
This is a throwback to the 80's! Get your outfit ready and let's learn this fun combo with me!
This week's Short Tap Combo is a groovy, percussive dance to the classic
Everybody Wants to Rule The World by Tears for Fears!
I created this combo for the advanced beginner level, and it's broken down into four sections. You will get to practice your riffs, crossover, paddle-and-rolls, cramp-rolls, toe heels, crawling steps, shuffles and more (lots of triplets, eighth notes and 16th notes) throughout the dance.
You can learn it from an instructional tap video where I will be teaching you from the comfort of your home.
Duration: One video of 35 minutes.
Short Tap Combo 10
Dance to the Brazilian song Bananeira by João Donato and Gilberto Gil!
I created this combo for the advanced beginner level, and it's broken down into four sections. You will get to practice your shuffles, double pullbacks, riffs, paddle-and-rolls, cramp-rolls, toe heels, and more (lots straight eighth notes) throughout the dance.
You can learn it from an instructional tap video where I will be teaching you from the comfort of your home.
Duration: one video of 34 minutes