Coast to Coast Cincinnati Drill

 

 Welcome to Encore Tap Dancing

Fall 2025

Class Meeting Times: 4:00-5:10 PM Tuesdays and Thursdays. Dance Room of the HHPC

• First day of class 9/15/25
• Last day of class 11/18/24

Blog: Step sheets, videos, and extra help at: www.supertappy.blogspot.com 

Performance Opportunity: San Juan College Foundation Holiday Spectacular

Friday, November 21, 2025

(Wednesday, November 19, 2025)

Dancers who would like to perform will need black pants (full length) and a SJC Tap t-shirt. ($10)

I will provide appropriate accessories to match our number. 

Rod Howell is an excellent practice coach. Here is a link to one of his tutorials:

Singing in the Rain

 Here is a Link to the whole dance with music. Singing in the rain with music

Here are some practice videos for some of the combinations. 

Singing in the Rain part one

 

Left  flap, heel heel flap, heel heel flap, heel heel ball change Turning to the back

Right Flap, heel heel flap, heel heel flap, heel heel ball change Turning to the left

Left flap heel heel right flap heel he Left flap heel heel ball change turning to the front

Step Maxi ford Maxi Ford stamp clap

Gene Kelly step ( Left step right scuff left hop Right spank step left step right Irish Left step)

Right Grapevine

Modified Cincinnati. Left lap heel heel right ball change, right flap heel heel left ball Change

Paradiddle paradiddle Paradiddle step. 

Gene Kelly Step

 Here is a tutorial for the Gene Kelly step. 

Step L, scuff R, hop L, spank step R, step L, irish R, step L  (we follow this with a grapevine— I say jazz square in the video)

Latest Practice video

YouTube blocked the practice video for copyright reasons. Here is a link to the Google Drive file. Sorry about that.  

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14PzVNZzX4rtuUJ9p0RVoTkAAZ0CbLUfL/view?usp=drivesdk

Buffalo, Cincinnati and back essence review. 

 

We don’t talk about Bruno—video

 

Counts are iffy 

R stamp step step L stamp step step R dig dig dig stamp 

Heels toes heels, toes, heels, toes heels, R Drag, Ball change Stamp. Hold

R Step heel, Cross back R. L Cross back out, R Cross step heel toe heel toe

Chaine turn. Stamp L

R Irish L Irish R step Maxi Ford Cramp roll

R Cumbia L Cumbia L Four count Grapevine

R Back essence L Back essence R Shuffle ball change shuffle ball change

R Back essence L Back essence R Shuffle ball change shuffle ball change

R Cincinnati L Cincinnati modification with three taps.

R stamp step step L stamp step step R dig dig dig stamp 

Heels toes heels, toes, heels, toes heels, R Drag, Ball change Stamp. Hold

Back essence video:

Cincinnati 

(Rod Howell calls it something else)