Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12999 in VHS
• Released on: 1998-01-01
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Formats: Color, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 86 minutes

Amazon.com
Who hasn't had the dream of being a tap dancer? Bonnie Franklin, formerly with Donald O'Connor and a tap dancer since the age of 9, makes your dream come true--at least in your living room. Franklin is a warm, motivating and skillful teacher, and she obviously loves tap dancing. The former TV sitcom star leads you through your first steps, appropriate for the two-left-feet among us. Later sections get progressively more complex. Learn a basic tap step, then another, practice and practice, and put them together. Before long, you're dancing complete routines. The video runs 86 minutes, but Franklin suggests you stop and practice a section until you're proficient rather than trying to get through it all at once.

This is a dance-instruction video, not an exercise video. When you get skilled enough to dance the combinations and routines, you'll get a workout, but at first, it will be more like a drill. The video was produced in 1984, but it's not outdated, and the production is high quality. This is a popular video and lots of fun! --Joan Price

From the Back Cover
If you hate to exercise but want a fun way to stay in shape, then join Bonnie Franklin and begin to tap! In this challenging video for all ages, you will learn to tap at your own pace... step by step! Bonnie Franklin teaches you all of the basic steps, how to build combinations, and dance popular tap routines such as the Waltz Clog, the Soft Shoe, the Time Step, and more! So if you have always wanted a way to dance yourself into shape, then Bonnie Franklin's tap class is just what you've been waiting for! You may hate to exercise... but you'll love to tap!

Television and stage star Bonnie Franklin has been tap dancing since she was nine years old, appearing with Donald O'Connor on the Colgate Comedy Hour. She began teaching at the age of 12 and went on to a versatile dance and acting career which includes many stage and screen roles, the most notable being the national hit TV series One Day at a Time, which ran for nine years on network television.

Customer Reviews

Fun even without your taps!
This video doesn't require that you get in your leotard and tap shoes. The whole family can do it in their socks and NOT sound like a herd of elephants running through your apartment. Low key and fun. Grade: A+

Bonnie Franklin's valentine to Tap and Tap dancers
It is clear that Bonnie Franklin loves tap and people that tap dance. This video, I'm sure, is a work of love and a gift to us. For that reason I'd buy it for the sheer joy that she brings. That is the soul of "I hate to execrcise, I love to Tap."
The quality of instruction, photography, music and set has been described very well by previous reviewers. This video will fulfill its promise to you as a dancer and help you to be a happier person.
P.S. If you're a dancer, get the DVD format as it is also on VHS.

not as simple as it looks!
i was really excited to start tapping.. and although i have previous dancing experience (but not tap) i still found this dvd very slightly challenging but fun..

only get this if you are interested in learning to tap but not as a substitute for a real workout... its something in between high & low impact exercise, as its much more mellow than aerobics and slightly more energetic than yoga.. i use it to break the routine but not as a workout routine on its own.