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Courtesy of PortableTapFloor.com, our first giveaway for Day 4!
PortableTapFloor.com provides quality portable tap floors that are affordable, lightweight, durable, and resonant.
Once again, here is a product that was born from necessity. Terrence “Taps”, the man behind online tap dance resources, TapDanceMan.com, eTapDance.com, and TapDanceSongs.com, needed a lightweight, shock absorbing tap floor that he could use when performing in schools, libraries, and other venues where a good wooden stage is not available. It was important to Terrence that he have good flooring, not only because it improved his performances, but because it reduced his risk of injury.
Armed with ideas for his design, he worked with a designer to produce his portable tap floor. Realizing later that others might also need a functional solution for performance or practice that costs less than $300, he decided to make his Portable Tap Floor available to other tap dancers.
“Whether it’s for personal use, or is given as a gift,” Terrence says, “the “Perfect” Portable Tap Floor encourages tap practice and is great fun to use!”
Watch and listen to the Portable Tap Floor in action, and hear Terrence tell more of his story in this video:
PortableTapFloor.com kindly sponsored this giveaway, however in the interest of disclosure I want to let you know that I am an affiliate for PortableTapFloor.com (meaning that I earn a commission on sales from this item). I believe in Terrence’s dedication to the art form of tap and like to support other teachers who dedicate their skills and ingenuity to create useful resources for other teachers and dancers. Though other transportable tap floors are on the market, I haven’t seen any others like this one, plus it is an affordable option for tap students who want to create a space for home practice.
On to the giveaway:
Terrence “Taps” wants to give away one of his Portable Tap Floors to a Dance Advantage reader.
At 36 x 48 inches, it is currently the largest size floor offered at PortableTapFloors.com, and weighs about 26 lbs. The winner will also be able to choose from among the nine custom colors available so that the floor can communicate his/her own unique style.
Direct any questions about the floor to Terrence:
Here’s how to enter:
Leave a comment at this post, answering the question: Why would YOU like to own a tap floor from PortableTapFloor.com?
Note: Winners are chosen randomly. Your answer will have no effect on the outcome of this contest, but creative, heartfelt, and entertaining answers will affect how super we think you are. 😉
This giveaway is open to those in the continental U.S. The giveaway will close Saturday, November 13 and a winner will be drawn on Sunday.
Best of luck to everyone who enters!
Don’t forget to check out any giveaways you may have missed!
Nichelle Suzanne is a writer specializing in dance and online content. She is also a dance instructor with over 20 years experience teaching in dance studios, community programs, and colleges. She began Dance Advantage in 2008, equipped with a passion for movement education and an intuitive sense that a blog could bring dancers together. As a Houston-based dance writer, Nichelle covers dance performance for Dance Source Houston, Arts+Culture Texas, and other publications. She is a leader in social media within the dance community and has presented on blogging for dance organizations, including Dance/USA. Nichelle provides web consulting and writing services for dancers, dance schools and studios, and those beyond the dance world. Read Nichelle’s posts.
I am a retired tap teacher. my sister and I still go to nursing homes to perform. In the nursing homes most of their facilities have rug, so tap dancing is out…Now as you know, most of the elderly LOVE tap dancing as they were brought up in the age of “bo” jangles, shirley temple, fred astaire, ginger rogers etc etc…they all love to hear and watch tap dancing. We have tried to bring in some flooring, but it rolls up in the corners and doesn’t sound very good either…Seeing we do not charge for these performances (we love to dance) buying tap floors is really not in our budget. When we do “tap” for the elderly, we watch as their feet move to the music and try and do the steps that we are doing…it’s an awesome sight and brings us such joy. We also talk with them after and they tell us all about their days of tap dancing and how many of the elderly have either been professional’s themselves and have performed for big productions in NYC, or a traveling company around the world= We’ve even met a few former Rockettes..we all have a lot to learn from our elderly!
Every studio/dancer should perform at a nursing home at least one time in their lives and see the joy it brings to them but most of all to learn from them.
I thank you for your time and Happy Tapping!!! : )
debbie
So cool that this is in your giveaway! I actually posted a link to PortableTapFloor.com on my Facebook page yesterday just because I saw an ad and thought the idea was awesome! I’d love a portable tap floor because I’m a traveling dancer and dance educator, and pretty much anything portable completely suits my life at the moment. 🙂
I am a tap teacher from Wisconsin that recently relocated to Texas. I would love to have the portable tap floor in my home studio where I can practice and choreograph. I would also use it for long distance choreography videos.
Would love for my students to have as many tools as possible to help them!
I currently tap on my kitchen floor. If I had a portable tap floor it would annoy the raccoon family (which lives under my house) a lot less!
🙂 Thank you for the chance!!
A tap floor would be great for my studio while putting on smaller community performances on surfaces where tap shoes and sounds aren’t at their best (or heard at all, such as carpet). It would also be great when doing in-home private tap lessons. What a great product!!
My tap club at school frequently takes our old warped sheets of plywood uptown to dance in front of the bars and fund raise. Having a portable tap floor would make transporting a surface uptown SO much easier!
PS. I LOVE that one of your freebies is for tap dancers 🙂
I would use a portable floor for our community performances where my dancers currently tap on concrete, rugs and all sorts of terrible surfaces! Thank you for the chance 🙂
Would be great to not have to go to a studio to practice!
My daughter is 8 and an aspiring dancer. She took tap for the first time last year and fell in LOVE. She dances in all disciplines, but tap is her favorite. Unfortunately, though, we don’t have a suitable tap surface in our home, so she can only practice in bare feet, which is helpful, but it doesn’t allow her to hear the sounds she is making. This is an item that would be put to very good use in our house for many years to come!
The portable dance floor would be great for home practice! It could be set up right by my computer while I follow dance class videos (or try to anyway). I am a ballet student, but would love to try tap and starting at home would be great. 🙂 I love freebies!
My dance company does many benefit performances; however, our fabulous rappers can never tap because they don’t have the proper flooring. It would be great to have a portable flooring so they can perform!!
Our school could certainly use it — when you perform out in the community, there’s never any telling what you’ll be dancing on. Could be plywood, could be carpet, could be concrete, could be dirt. It will NEVER be a good tap floor, so this would be great.
I would love this floor for our company girls who travel to mini-festivals to dance for the community! Sometimes their flooring is not ideal and this would definitely ease my mind when we go out and perform for others in different settings. 😀
Freebies are awesome. My daughter, who is the dancer has a hard time practicing tap at home. Most of our floors have carpet and those that don’t really would not hold up to being tapped on. Tap is the one area she needs to work the most on, so having a floor to practice at home would be wonderful.
I am so excited about this giveaway!! Three of my daughters and I all take tap, and would LOVE to have one of these portable tap floors so we can practice at home. It would make such an awesome family Christmas present!! Thanks so much for the opportunity to win! 🙂
PS: I love freebies!!
Wow…we would love a portable tap floor….we often do many community performances with floors that are not best for tap..what a great way to “hear” and spread the joy of tap dancing to our community when we perform!
thanks!
This is great! I love that one of your giveaways is for tap. We tap dancers often get overlooked, so I really appreciate this. I would love to win a portable tap floor because I’m a tap teacher and I live in an apartment. It would be wonderful to have a space to plan lessons and more – in my home. Not to mention when we travel and need to rehearse, this would be great!
With a portable tap floor, practice could be limitless – at the grocery store, in the elevator, waiting for the bus, and now anywhere there is a flat surface!
I’ve recently taken up tap dance again for the first time since I was a child and I love it. Can’t believe how much I missed this dance. But I don’t have a suitable practice surface outside of being in class. I live in an apartment and the walls are thin and the floor is tile. I could really use a muffled surface to practice on when I’m at home.
I would love to have a tap floor because I LOVE tap dancing!! I have the perfect place in my studio for it and it would provide so much fun (not to mention exercise) for me!
I’m an older tapper–fifty(mumble) years. With each passing decade I learn more skills and gain endurance, but class once a week now isn’t enough practice. At home I use a beat up piece of incredibly heavy plywood on the garage floor. It’s cold in there, and I tap amongst the spiders and brake fluid and boxes filled with old holiday decor. Depressing! I have to force myself to go down there. Also, I travel in a Airstream around the country…what joy it would be to tap outdoors, on a portable floor! (Not around other campers, of course.) I’ve had my eye on a small practice floor for some time and Terrance’s is perfect: light, springy, easy to hide away and no ridiculous celtic designs on the border.
I am a tap teacher and my daughter is one of my students. We would LOVE to have a portable tap floor to help me with my lesson plans and give my daughter and I a space to practice on. Dancing in socks so we don’t ruin our floors just isn’t the same!
I am a mom of three who just started taking tap lessons. It is something I always wanted to do, but never found the time for. My daughter and son are both taking tap lessons as well…my youngest is 1 and loves to watch the other two in lessons. I bought a pair of shoes on Ebay and took my first lesson, got home and wanted to practice, but the floor got all scratched up (oops, I didn’t know) – I would love to have one of your practice floors so the kids and I can all practice at home. They love to try to teach me all the stuff they are learning, but we are all trying it on our socks at present.
Thank you –
D.
My Girls 6 & 7 1/2 LOVE Tapping. They have been tapping since they were about 16 mos old. They practice for their shows and competitions on our living room floor and would LOVE your Portable Tap Floor so they could practice & perform anywhere!
I have taught tap for many years, and a place to practice is always a problem for my students. A portable tap floor is just what is needed–and not always easy to find. So this would be a great boon for them, and I would love to see what this one is like!
I would love a Portable Tap floor because the apartment I live in is all carpeted and the only place for me to tap is on the tiny, narrow kitchen floor. I would love to be able to tap with out worrying about hitting body parts on cabinets and counter tops.
This is the best invention every. I started tapping when I was young. I am now
60 years old…. I still tap, but between work and school it hard to fined time
to practice. This portable floor would help and give me so much pleasure.
My daughter would love to have the portable tap floor to practice her routines at home. Currently we have no space that is suitable for tapping and since she views tap as her weakest genre, the ability to practice at home would be invaluable to her.
I am currently disabled with a brain disorder. I have enjoyed tap dancing for most of my life and feel that it could be good therapy for me to do again now with the aid of this portable floor. Just thinking about it boosts my mood.
I would love to have a portable tap floor!! I teach tap at different studios and am always looking for a place to create at home. Usually on the carpet or the hardwood floors of my home in tennis shoes, I really love to hear the sounds created and great the real feel of the steps! I also LOVE FREEBIES!!!