Tap Hop: Lesson 1 (2009) is a split-screen video remix work that examines the formal and cultural connections between tap and breakdance. Mixing footage from the 1942 musical comedy Pardon My Sarong and the 1986 TV show Graffiti Rock, a dance battle is staged between seminal 1940s tap group Tip Tap and Toe and the 1980s hip-hop crew The New York City Breakers. The cultural matrix between these dance forms emerge through juxtaposition, including the remixed audio track that has the breakers moving to the beats of tap, and the tappers dancing to the scratch rhythms of hip-hop turntablisim.

The ReelDance Archive was developed by ReelDance Inc. with support from Arts NSW, Australia Council for the Arts and Performance Space.