Lost In The Shuffle Tap Dance Podcast

#084 5 Tips to Energize Your Teen Tap Classes

Hillary-Marie shares 5 quick and easy tips on how you can energize your teen tap classes this week.

#083 What I wish my tap teacher taught me...

The iTapOnline Community answers the question... what's the ONE thing that you wish your tap teacher taught you?

#082 New Ideas for Across the Floor

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.

#081 Tap Teacher Questions Answered

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.

#080 Tips for Teaching Perfect Pullbacks

Hillary-Marie shares her top tips and tricks for teaching your students crispy clean and perfect pullbacks.

#079 Are your students using Tap Journals?

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.

#078 Shuffling into the New Year

Hillary-Marie shares her favorite journaling exercise for shuffling into the New Year, with a Love It, Leave It and Learned It list.

#077 Top 3 Tap Teacher Questions of the 2020 Year

Check out the top 3 most popular episodes of the 2020 year!

#076 Tap Teacher Questions Answered

Hillary-Marie answers Tap Teacher's questions, including turns, wings and more.

#075 How to Teach Proper Flap Technique

Is your flap coming from the front or the back? Hillary-Marie discusses proper Flap technique.

#074 Giving Thanks

Taking a moment to give thanks for all things tap dance.

#073 Why are there different names for the SAME Tap step?

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.

#072 Are your students behind on their Tap Technique?

Hillary-Marie answers an iTap Teacher's question on how to help students who are behind on their technique.

#071 The Secret to How My Students Learn SO Quickly

Hillary-Marie discusses one of the secrets to why and how her students learn SO quickly.

#070 Why We Did NOT Dance Outside during COVID

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).

#069 Tap Teacher Questions Answered

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.

#068 4 Tips for Tap Dancing in a Mask

Hillary-Marie shares for tips for tap dancing in a mask.

BONUS: Shout Out to iTap Teacher Monica

#067 Tap Teacher Questions Answered

Hillary-Marie answers Tap Teacher's questions, including how to build rapport with students who are Zooming into class that you've never met before, how to not get exhausted teaching over Zoom, Google Meet vs. Zoom, and tips for finding teaching jobs.

#066 How to Teach an Awesome Hybrid Tap Class

I’ve just finished my first week of teaching Hybrid style classes at my studio, Grooves Unlimited (Livingston, NJ), and it was AWESOME. If you’re a Tap Teacher who’s set up for Hybrid this season, I want to share with you guys some tips and tricks on how to make this awesome class for both you and your students. Click here to learn more about the Ultimate Hybrid Dance Class Course.

#065 9 Lessons Learned in Quarantine

#064 COVID Inspired Changes for iTapOnline

I was pretty quiet in the beginning because I was focusing on saving the studio, and I was lucky because I already had an online platform built. As everyone was transitioning into online learning, I had already been operating in that space for 4 years now. I had an extensive video library. Butttttttttttttttttttt… I was super inspired to make some awesome changes. Previously, I had one type of Membership. iTapOnline Family Members had access to the iTapOnline Video Library with over 100 breakdown...

#063 How My Studio Survived Covid-19

Today I’m sharing with you the story of how my studio made it through COVID-19. No rent forgiveness. No rent deferral. No refunds from venues. No lay-offs of Team members. But we did it! Here’s an update on everything that’s gone on since stay-at-home orders hit New Jersey back in March 2020.

#062 Should You Teach for FREE?

#061 Your Students NEED You Right Now

#060 10 FREE iTap Resources Available to You Right NOW

Free iTap resources are available at www.iTapOnline.com .

#059 How to Get Your Dance Classes Online

Dance Studios all around the world are currently closing their doors. I've got Tap Teachers and Studio Owners worldwide who are reaching out because they are scared. They don't know what to do or where to start.

#058 Tap Teacher Questions Answered

Hillary-Marie answers Tap Teachers' questions, including how to choreograph traveling footwork for formation changes, when to teach tap class etiquette and how to introduce students to live music.

#057 Which Tap Steps Do Your Students Struggle With Most?

Tap Teachers share which steps their tap students are struggling with most and Hillary-Marie shares her tips and tricks on how to approach their technique in class.

#056 Tap Teacher Questions Answered

Hillary-Marie answers Tap Teachers' questions, including what to do with a student who is struggling to keep up in class, what's the best way to assess the level of a new class and how to teach your students to use their arms naturally.