Here's what most dance teachers are up against:

Sound familiar?

  • Your body has a limit.

  • Your studio contract has an expiration date.

  • Your income shouldn't depend on either.

Tap for All™ is the only certification built specifically for adaptive tap dance, giving you a complete, turnkey system to build a business that belongs to you.

Teach seniors, people with disabilities, and underserved communities in retirement facilities, community centers, and VA health programs. No adaptive experience required. No studio required. No ceiling.

I've been exactly where you are.

Here's how I know.

I have had two spinal surgeries, holding my lower back together with a rod and screws. I've had two hip replacements on the same hip, a full revision three years after the first one failed. A neck fusion and discectomy for the same stabilization issue.

I kept teaching through all of it. Not because I'm tougher than you. Because I didn't know another way yet.

My mother was a brilliant tap dancer, teacher, and prolific choreographer. She spent decades doing what we all do, teaching on linoleum, tile, terrible floors, because that's what dance floors were from the 1970s through the 2000s. Nobody was thinking about what those surfaces were doing to our bodies. By the time floors got better, the damage was already done. Her knees had paid the full price. One replacement went badly and left her with only 20% bend in that knee. She couldn't balance well enough to stand and tap anymore.

I started building my adaptive equipment for her. Tap mittens. Tap boards. A way to keep choreographing, keep teaching, keep doing the thing she'd given her life to, just a little differently.

She passed away in April 2018 before she could use any of it.

But I understood something by then that I couldn't unknow. My mother wasn't alone. The students no one was teaching were in every retirement community, every VA health center, every adaptive program within driving distance of every dance teacher in this country. They were waiting for someone to show up prepared.

I built Tap for All so you can be that person. With the methodology, the equipment, the credentials, and the community to do it, on your terms, in your community, without a studio telling you when and how.

My mother never got to tap again. Your students don't have to wait. Every class I teach, I feel her with me, beside me, tapping.

When recreation therapists at VA health centers started using Tap for All, they didn't stop at one.

A recreational therapist at a VA health center in Puerto Rico discovered this methodology and thought it could be a tool for her fellow therapists and their patients. I sent her tap mittens, tap boards, and my book.

Thirty days later, she reached back out. Not to report a problem. To say it was going so well, she wanted to set everything up again for a second VA health center being built nearby.

That's when I created the Video Training Vault and Supplemental Guide. Because I realized that non-dancers needed more than equipment, they needed to understand what the steps were and how to build combinations that actually worked for their patients. Today, Tap for All is being used by recreation therapists at VA health centers in Puerto Rico, Fresno, Palo Alto, and Boise, each one a verified purchase backed by institutional approval.

These are not dance teachers. They are therapists. And they chose this methodology because it works.

What certified Tap for All instructors are saying.

“ I took Victoria’s online course two years ago. The first year I began by reaching out to the nearest retirement facility to me. There have been a couple of locations where it did not work out, but I kept reaching out to other facilities and now I have four locations I go to regularly. One of the activities directors has two more locations we are going to reach out to in the near future. As the saying goes, one thing leads to another… that has been true for me with Tap for All. As more people learn about it they recognize the value of it and they lead me to other opportunities to offer Tap for All. Next I am expanding into working with children with disabilities.”

Kathleen Carman - Certified Tap for All Instructor

Kathleen started with one facility. She now serves four, with two more in conversation. This is what the Tap for All methodology does in the hands of a prepared instructor.

And here's what instructors say about the certification itself:

  • "Thank you so much for this opportunity. As much as additional income is a plus, I'm so excited to have more ways to bring dance into people's lives. I love having the science, research, and evidence to convince others of the endless benefits of dance for all people, of all ages, and of all ability levels. I'm very excited and happy about the education, reminders, and tools I can add to my toolbox. I would definitely recommend this course!" Jill Waller

  • "I feel I already was an expert in tap dance, but the brain conditions and disease information was so beneficial and gave me more confidence to get started teaching Tap for All." Lisa Callaghan

  • "I knew this course would be filled with all the organization we need! It did not disappoint! What a wonderful course, TY, TY, TY. If you're looking to increase your income I HIGHLY recommend taking this course. Victoria has really done all the heavy lifting for you. She has thought of everything, it is the most organized, comprehensive course I have ever taken. I believe I got way more value than I paid for, the price of the course is beyond reasonable. Give it a try, you will NOT regret it!" Kathleen Carman - Certified Tap for All Instructor

This certification is built for you if:

This is for you if any of this sounds familiar.

  • You love teaching but your body is quietly, or loudly, telling you it can't keep doing this the same way.

  • You're building someone else's studio business while your own income stays capped at however many hours you can physically teach.

  • You've watched students get turned away from dance because nobody knew how to teach them — and that's bothered you ever since.

  • You want recurring income from facilities and programs, not a schedule that empties the moment a student quits.

  • You believe movement belongs to every body — and you're ready to build a business around that belief.

This is not a performance credential. It is not a choreography certification. It is a business and methodology certification for dance teachers who are ready to teach differently — and build something that belongs entirely to them.

Everything you need to walk in prepared and get paid.

  • License use of the Tap for All™ name and brand

  • Access to the Tap for All Video Training Vault: A growing library of reference videos so you're never teaching alone.

  • Class planning worksheets and session templates

  • The Tap for All Supplemental Guide — 100+ ready-to-use tap combinations

  • Membership in the Tap for All Community Champions Network

  • Tap for All T-shirt

  • 1 pair of Tap for All teacher tap mittens

About the Adaptive Equipment

Tap mittens and tap boards are the tools that make Tap for All possible. They allow students who cannot wear tap shoes or cannot stand to experience the rhythm, feedback, and joy of tap dance from any position.

Tap mittens come in seven sizes to fit nearly any hand: Child XS, Child S, Adult XS, Adult S, Adult M, Adult L, and Adult XL — making it possible to teach students of all ages, from young children with disabilities to older adults.

And for a limited time, tap mittens are also available in an exclusive tie-dye design — handmade, limited edition, and not available anywhere else. These are not included in the Launch Kit and are priced separately due to the additional time and materials required to make them.

Pricing Options

Choose Certification to start building your business, or add the Launch Kit to walk into your first facility ready to teach from day one.

The Launch Kit

Includes your full starter set of adaptive equipment: one pair of tap mittens in all five adult sizes (Adult XS, Adult S, Adult M, Adult L, Adult XL) and 5 tap boards — a $322 value if purchased separately. Everything you need to walk into your first class and start teaching. As you grow and understand the needs of your specific location, additional mittens and boards are available for purchase.

Course Curriculum

    1. A message from the instructor

    2. How to use this course

    3. Before we begin...

    1. Lesson 1: The Tap for All Journey

    2. Lesson 2: "Variety is the Spice of Life" - Class Options Galore

    3. Lesson 3: The Tap for All Students

    4. Lesson 4: Necessary Equipment / Tap for All vs Traditional Tap Classes

    5. Module 1 Test

    1. The Link Between Dance and Cognitive, Mental, and Physical Health

    2. Module 2 Test

    1. Parkinson's and Alzheimer's

    2. Cerebral Palsy / Arthritis / Stroke

    3. Hearing and Visually Impaired Students

    4. Test your learning

    1. The Power of Music

    2. Test your learning

    1. The Importance of Language and Representation

    2. Test your learning

About this Course

  • 23 lessons
  • 6 Modules

Meet Your Instructor- Victoria Moore

Victoria Moore is the founder of Tap for All, author of Tap Dance for All: Adapting Instruction for Disability and Mobility Impairment, and creator of the tap mitten and tap board adaptive equipment. She has taught for over three decades and developed this methodology because her students and her mother needed it.

This is her life's work. Now it can be yours too.

The population that needs what you offer is already out there.

They're in retirement communities, adaptive programs, and community centers, and they're waiting for a teacher who shows up prepared. That teacher can be you. Enroll today and build the business Kathleen built, on your terms, in your community, doing work that matters.
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