The Transition Assistance Program (TAP) helps many service members transition from military life to the civilian workplace and culture. Service members are taught how to manage their finances, ...
When Stephanie Hornung registered for classes this year, she added tap dance level three to her fall schedule, the same class she has taken for the past two years. She does not repeat the class ...
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, ...
What is so hard about a military transition that we make everyone take a mandatory 40-hour Transition Assistance Program (TAP) class? Answer: Nothing. After 40 hours of instruction, I want to learn ...
From a back room in the Harman Senior Center, past bingo flyers and bridge games, musical taps and laughter echoed across the hardwood floor. A handful of women, mostly retirees, gathered in a dance ...
Tap dancing isn't just for the adorable little Shirley Temples of this world. Or for the debonair Fred Astaires either. A group of Monroe County adults ranging in age from 50 on up into their 70s are ...
Eighty-five-year-old Marian Steele's feet beat is racing. As her tap-clad shoe soles rebound snappily off the stage floor, they resound like intoxicating drumbeats. It's a joyful noise, a rap of the ...