Episodes
Hillary-Marie shares with you 3 mistakes you might be making in your tap dance practice time, and how to solve them quickly and easily so you can become the tap dancer you truly want to be.
Published 03/25/21
As more and more Tap Teachers learn about tap dance history, they’re appreciating the connection of tap dance to jazz music. And this often leads to the question... how do I incorporate Jazz music into my Tap classes? In today's episode, Hillary-Marie is going to give you easy tips and tricks on how to introduce jazz music into your weekly tap classes in a way that will excite and energize your students.
Published 03/18/21
Do you ever find yourself wondering... How can I dance faster without missing my sounds? How do you teach speed and clarity? In this episode, Hillary-Marie gives you the answers you need by sharing with you the three most common mistakes that tap dancers make when approaching fast footwork and how to fix them.
Published 03/11/21
Not sure when or how to use a metronome in your personal practice or tap classes? No worries! In this episode, Hillary-Marie gives you all the info you need on how, when and why to use a metronome.
Published 03/04/21
Hillary-Marie shares 3 tips to capturing the wandering attention of your tiny tap dancers.
Published 02/25/21
Hillary-Marie and the iTapOnline Community answer the question... what's the biggest lesson that your tap teacher taught you?
Published 02/18/21
Hillary-Marie shares 5 quick and easy tips on how you can energize your teen tap classes this week.
Published 02/11/21
The iTapOnline Community answers the question... what's the ONE thing that you wish your tap teacher taught you?
Published 02/04/21
Do you ever feel like you've exhausted all your options for across the floor steps? Hillary-Marie shares with you an exercise that will make sure you never run out of across the floor exercises.
Published 01/28/21
Hillary-Marie answers tap teacher questions from the iTapOnline Community, including best tap shoes for student, how to help dancers dance lighter on their feet, and what tap shoes looked like back in the day.
Published 01/21/21
Hillary-Marie shares her top tips and tricks for teaching your students crispy clean and perfect pullbacks.
Published 01/14/21
Are your students using tap journals? In this episode, Hillary-Marie shares how tap journals have transformed her students' dedication to tap dance and how you can start using them in your classes this week.
Published 01/07/21
Hillary-Marie shares her favorite journaling exercise for shuffling into the New Year, with a Love It, Leave It and Learned It list.
Published 12/30/20
Check out the top 3 most popular episodes of the 2020 year!
Published 12/17/20
Hillary-Marie answers Tap Teacher's questions, including turns, wings and more.
Published 12/10/20
Is your flap coming from the front or the back? Hillary-Marie discusses proper Flap technique.
Published 12/03/20
Taking a moment to give thanks for all things tap dance.
Published 11/26/20
How did we end up with so many names for tap steps? Hillary-Marie discusses the inconsistency of tap dance vocabulary and how it relates to tap dance culture.
Published 11/19/20
Hillary-Marie answers an iTap Teacher's question on how to help students who are behind on their technique.
Published 11/12/20
Hillary-Marie discusses one of the secrets to why and how her students learn SO quickly.
Published 11/05/20
Hillary-Marie discusses why she didn't take her tap classes outside right away, and instead chose to wait it out to reopen indoors (and why her patience paid off).
Published 10/29/20
Hillary-Marie answers Tap Teachers' questions, including how to socially distance your tap classes, the best mask to teach in, everything you need for an awesome Hybrid Tap class, camera angles, tech equipment, and more.
Published 10/22/20
Hillary-Marie shares four tips for tap dancing in a mask, including how to find a mask you like, why you need to bring multiple masks, the importance of drinking a LOT of water, and one extremely SUPER important thing to keep in mind while teaching in a mask.
Published 10/15/20