Best Texas Tap Troupe

Class Act Dancers

Southern belles and beauty queens possess certain qualities that tend to emerge in sharp relief as they mature – namely, a sense of propriety that belies their bone-dry wit, grit, and laserlike insights into human behavior, especially that of their native cultures. We're being kind of silly here, but if the ladies of Class Act, a local senior tap dance troupe par excellence, remind you a little of your East Texas grandma or perhaps of characters in Richard Linklater's Bernie, it's not just because several of them were featured in the latter. It's because the women of Class Act, which performs at fundraisers, club events, and churches, are largely that: talented beauties who take their craft seriously and know that presentation – from practicing in full makeup and matching workout gear to performing in feathered headdress – along with a smart, sassy take on life, is all.

Shirley McPhail Dance Studio
8018 Mesa, 512/345-1284
www.smsdance.com