HISTORY PART II Students performing tap as part of Culture Week activities at Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico City. Tap dance has roots in dancing such as the Juba Dance, English Lancashire Clog dancing,[1] and probably most notably Irish stepdancing. It is believed to have begun in the mid-1800s during the rise of minstrel shows. White performers would imitate Southern blacks and satirize their dance forms while incorporating step-dancing. In later minstrel shows, black performers in blackface would play roles in which they imitated the Irish imitation of black dance forms, further mixing the two. Famous as Master Juba, William Henry Lane became one of the few black performers to join an otherwise white minstrel troupe, and is widely considered to be the most famous forebear of tap dance.
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