Tap Shoe Conversions

Thurs 6th November! We will be outside the Registry Office at the City Hall between 5 and 7pm.
Head down for tap shoe conversion, tap demonstration and tap sessions!
Here's a sample of the kits you can take away and try...

cardiff  6/10/14 to 10/10/14

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64 marriages 

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39 deaths 

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145 births 

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cardiff  13/10/14 to 17/10/14

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36 marriages 

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73 deaths 

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125 births 

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The Roath Appreciators

Tap Shoe Conversion and Tap class with Roath Appreciators, Cardiff

Roath Park Pub

                                       Tap Demonstration and Tap Shoe Conversion
                                           at The Roath Park Pub, Roath, Cardiff

More Kitchens Sessions

Moving Sessions

Studio Sessions

St Martins, Albany Road

St Martin in Roath church rooftop tap session!

Despite the consternation of poor Father Irvine we were allowed to have a tap dance session from the roof of St Martin Church. It had rained all night and so it was a bit slippy underfoot, but as we ascended the spiral staircase the skies brightened and the view from up there right across Cardiff was amazing. So we tapped the statistics of the city while looking across at the breadth of it - a really special experience (largely unnoticed by the shoppers of Albany Road, too!)

Spit&Sawdust Hangover Lounge

Tap Shoe Conversion and Tap Sessions

On October 5th madeinroath visited Spit & Sawdust Skatepark and Artspace and held some tap dance lessons and converted some shoes into tap shoes. We were joined by some very keen children who picked up the moves a lot more quickly than we did...

Morse Code Marriage

29/9/14 to 3/10/14

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40 marriages 

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57 deaths 

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128 births 

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The Code

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The Project

Births Deaths and Shuffles
From Birth Deaths and Marriages.

These are some of the most significant events of our lives: our births, our deaths and our marriages. Working with the data from Cardiff Registry Office, Made in Roath will use the language of Morse and the medium of tap dance to communicate and celebrate these key moments.

Kitchen Sessions

Kitchen Practice Sessions

Practicing the toe taps. the best way to get started.

Welcome

Welcome to Births,Deaths and Shuffles

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Another step to get crackin' with..

Fowards tap
Backwards tap
Step
Step

Repeat

First Things First...

...The Basics
Toe Taps: with one foot isolate the toe tapping, tap the toe up and down count out four even beats.
Then as if slightly swinging from your ankle, tap the ground the same but slightly forwards, and then back. 4 times.
Repeat on the other foot.

Coming Soon! madeinroath (Helen Clifford, Gail Howard and Becca Thomas) will tap dance Cardiff!