Tap and Jazz
Private Tap and Jazz Lessons and Parties!
Catrine is available to teach private tap and jazz lessons for individuals, couples and small groups. Read more about how you can make your party a fun event by having Cat come and teach at your party or wedding at the Event Page. Scheduling is flexible and rates are reasonable.
Tap Background
Cat started tap dancing around 7 years of age. She has been performing and teaching tap all around the world. Some of the teachers over the years have been, from Sweden, Barbara Navrot, Sven Lycke and Esther Persson. She has also studied with teachers from the USA like Chazz Young and performed with celebrities like Fayard and Harold Nicholas or shall we say “The Nicholas Brothers” which was there stage name.
Learn the most popular Jazz routines from the late 1800 and early 1900s
The Charleston is a dance named for the city of Charleston, South Carolina. The rhythm was popularized in mainstream dance music in the United States of America by a 1923 tune called The Charleston. For more information…
The Shim Sham Shimmy, Shim Sham or just Sham originally is a particular tap dance routine. It is credited to Leonard Reed, who originally called it Goofus, or to Willie Bryant. For swing dancers, today it is kind of line dance that recalls the roots of swing. For more information…
The Big Apple is both a partner dance and a circle dance that originated in the Afro-American community of the United States in the beginning of the 20th century. For more information…
The Tranky Doo is a Lindy Hop Jazz choreography. It first appeared at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem during the 1940s. For more information…
Cakewalk is a traditional African American form of music and dance which originated among slaves in the Southern United States. The form was originally known as the chalk line walk. The dance takes its name from competitions held on plantations prior to Emancipation, in which prizes, sometimes cake, were given for the best dancers. For more information…
