Sorry to hog the conversation lately ☺️, but . . .
I’m curious what would happen if you put tap shoes on a WCS dancer. WCS dancers don’t take many percussive steps, as tappers do, and I don’t know how well you could spin or slide in tap shoes. But I think a fusion of the styles in a routine (would it even be allowed in competition?) would be a lot of fun, the way Astaire & Rogers fused tap with ballroom/Latin, and Kelly fused tap with jazz. We already see many dancers, even in competition, fuse WCS with ballet, shuffle moves, and other styles.
And I do see some WCS routines that include some tap-like patterns, just without the taps—a good example is this one:
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8dkbtgq/
I have heard purists say they don’t want other forms mixed in with WCS. Others say modern swing was meant to continue to evolve.
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23 Sep 13:02
Thank you for your input, as always, Brian!
Happy to hear fusions are acceptable and that a real WCS-tap fusion is a possibility. :)