This is well designed - easy to jump to the section desired. I took tap classes for 10 years and taught children for a few years when I was a teenager. If you hate to exercise but want a fun way to stay in shape, then join Bonnie Franklin and begin to tap! The video was produced in 1984, but it's not outdated, and the production is high quality.

She teaches Brushes, shuffles, slaps, ball-change individually, then teaches you how to put them together in three famous routines: Waltz Clogg, Soft Shoe, and Time Step.

Out of the blue, she decided she wanted to learn tap. [July 1997]. Very, Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2014. That's where I'm comfortable.

I would be delighted to live in a world where more people went about their daily business dressed as Bonnie is here. Feels like she's actually encouraging me personally the way she addresses the camera and she has a great teaching style. This video is full of challenging exercises and Bonnie goes over them carefully, slowly enough to pick them up, but a little faster than the beginner is prepared for. Even though I would consider myself an experience tapper at an intermediate level I think this would also work for someone at a beginner level. I'm not a young thing anymore but I thoroughly enjoyed doing these routines. Learning to tap dance was the way to go for me. The trick here is to practice with this tape daily. More recently, Bonnie reunited with "One Day at a Time" daughter Valerie Bertinelli in a 2011 episode of Bertinelli's sitcom, Hot in Cleveland (2010), and, a year later, played a recurring nun in the daytime The Young and the Restless (1973).In September of 2012, Bonnie was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and died several months later on March 1, 2013. She was thrust onto the stage at a very young age as a child tap dancer and became the protégé of consummate tapper Donald O'Connor. I tried jumping rope, running, weight lifting, and they all bored me and I didn't feel they gave me much of a work out. The routines include the Waltz, soft shoe and time step. Who hasn't had the dream of being a tap dancer? I loved this DVD. I was really rusty at first, but have improved my technique and speed with repetition. Eager to break my new tap shoes in i subscribed to various you tube tutorial/ tap lesson channels. |  The picture is not very good and the setting is dated BUT the content is good so I'm keeping it. Franklin is a warm, motivating and skillful teacher, and she obviously loves tap dancing. The routines are great, starting off with a nice easy routine that anyone can pick up and ending with the famous Time-step which we all aspire to. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. My daughter and I bought this for fun, hoping that as the name implies, it would be an enjoyable way to get fit - and to learn to dance in the process! A bit mechanical and dry; they were helpful. In addition, she put together and toured in her own cabaret act and appeared in nearly a dozen staged readings with Los Angeles' Classic and Contemporary American Playwrights.Bonnie was a tireless activist for a variety of charities and civic-oriented issues, among them AIDS care and research and the Stroke Association of Southern California. Bonnie makes learning to tap a real pleasure. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Besides learning to tap, it is also a form of a fun exercise and I'm loving it because you have to be able to move your body, especially your legs if you want to get it right. But the men who produce and write the show still don't believe me when I present them with the women's point of view. After watching the greats, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, Jimmy Slide, Gregory Hines, Sammy Davis Jr. And many others I decided to find a DVD. I'm not a young thing anymore but I thoroughly enjoyed doing these routines.

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