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  Tap: Tap dancing is unique because the dancer uses shoes with metal plates on the soles to create rhythm and percussion. Tap dancing can be traced back to Ireland, England, and West Africa. There are two main kinds of tap dancing today—jazz tap and Broadway tap (the kind popular in movies and shows).

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  Cover art © 2015 by Lynne Avril

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  AMELIA BEDELIA DANCES OFF. Text copyright © 2015 by Herman S. Parish III. Illustrations copyright © 2015 by Lynne Avril. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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