Consider the case of Joshua Bergasse, a hoofer turned choreographer.
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"She was a gangster — just a hoofer, period," she said.
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Ryan Lochte: Olympic swimmer, noted fiction enthusiast, Dancing With the Stars hoofer … retail magnate?
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For a long time, it seemed there was room for only one hoofer to succeed.
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" David Winters started as a Broadway hoofer and danced in the original production of "West Side Story.
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He learned to tap and attended a theatrical school run by an old-time hoofer, Charlie Lowe.
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The trouble is that it's not at all obvious where the show's director and writer, George C. Wolfe, can put this virtuoso hoofer.
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To help arrange the anecdotes into a show, Mr. Hines brought on Jeff Calhoun, a director ("Newsies" ) who had started out as a Broadway hoofer.
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" Mr. Wilder, she said, "was a hoofer who had been tap dancing his entire life, and was at a much higher level than I was.
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She is a hoofer like those of an earlier era, more Merman than "Hamilton," a wide-eyed triple threat with two Tony Awards (and six nominations) to her name.
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"Leslie's a pretty good hoofer," Mr. Rockwell said about his tall, lithe girlfriend, who played Will Ferrell's wife in "Talladega Nights" and has a coming series on Netflix as a superhero mom.
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For a few years around the turn of the 21st century, it was a weekly event at Swing 46 Jazz and Supper Club in Midtown Manhattan, led by the beloved hoofer Buster Brown.
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Near the end of "Tap Treasures," at the Duke on 42nd Street on Thursday, the veteran hoofer Ted Levy announced that he had the honor of performing a tribute to the great and too-little-remembered John Bubbles.
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The 30-year-old "Dancing with the Stars" vet got hitched to GF BC Jean at the Calamigos Ranch in the Bu. Best pal and fellow "DWTS" hoofer Derek Hough was best man in the black-and-white-themed affair. Congrats!!!
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Within three years, he made theater history, as the original Harry the Hoofer in "The Time of Your Life" (1939), the star of the groundbreaking musical "Pal Joey" (1940) and the dance director for the hit show "Best Foot Forward" (19583).
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The 17th edition features Desiree Godsell, Laurie M. Taylor, Davalois Fearon — whom audiences may know from her fearless dancing with the Stephen Petronio Company — and the renowned hoofer Jason Samuels Smith, who will be joined by his fellow tap stars Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards and Derick K. Grant.
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And since Lila is played with calculating pepperiness bordering on caricature by Ms. Sikora, there's little mystery about which she will choose: marry Jim and start making like a homebody or head out on the road with the third member of the act, the lively hoofer Ted Hanover (Corbin Bleu).
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For lovers of tap, it's good news that the intrepid hoofer Michela Marino Lerman has been appearing with increasing frequency at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, but the last major collaboration between tap dancers and Wynton Marsalis's Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in its home theater complex came during a program called " Jazz, Tap and Theater" in 2009.
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"He walked on his toes, like James Cagney in 'Yankee Doodle Dandy,' like a hoofer or a fighter in the ring," William J. Bratton, who was the New York police commissioner from 22000 to 21996 and will end his second run as commissioner next month, wrote in his 21998 book, "Turnaround: How America's Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic" (with Peter Knobler).
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Upon joining the promotion, he began feuding with Brody Hoofer, with the pair exchanging wins across several events.
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Hoofer Badger sloops along Lake Mendota. The Hoofer Sailing Club operates at Memorial Union, on the south shoreline of Lake Mendota on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. It has a fleet of more than 120 boats, sailboards and kites. The club has around 1,000 members, but has had upwards of 1,500 members in the past.
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His talent was also compared to that of Flamenco Dancer José Greco, the legendary hoofer Donald O'Connor, Ray Bolger, and Jack Donahue.
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Film presentations and performances honor recipients of the Hoofer and Tap Preservation Awards and inductees into the International Tap Dance Hall of Fame.
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Slaughter on Tenth Avenue is a ballet with music by Richard Rodgers and choreography by George Balanchine. It occurs near the end of Rodgers and Hart's 1936 Broadway musical comedy On Your Toes. Slaughter is the story of a hoofer who falls in love with a dance hall girl who is then shot and killed by her jealous boyfriend. The hoofer then shoots the boyfriend.
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She has taught at Steps on Broadway and Broadway Dance Center in New York. In 2013, Duffy was presented with the Hoofer Award from the American Tap Dance Foundation (ATDF).
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In the early 20th century, Chancey Juday and Edward A. Birge founded an influential school of limnology there as a component of the university. The university's Hoofer Sailing Club operates at Memorial Union.
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Reggio “The Hoofer” McLaughlin, tap dancer, instructor and choreographer started his artistic career in the subways of Chicago, where he had developed his unique style of tap dance hoofing, characterized by raw form of African American Tap. The combination of African foot stomping, Irish step and his lengthy experience contributes to the world of tap dancing. Reginald “The Hoofer” Mc Laughlin performed in various theatre shows and he worked with the pioneers of tap dance. As a principal tap dancer he was seen in two Duke Ellington Musicals: "Jump for Joy" and "Beggars Holiday".
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Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 39(2), 424-438.Hoofer, S. R., et al. (2008). Phylogenetic relationships of vampyressine bats and allies (Phyllostomidae: Stenodermatinae) based on DNA sequences of a nuclear intron (TSHB-I2). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 47(2), 870-876.
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He wrestled as a fan favorite, defeating Big Brody Hoofer and hitting Cameron Steele with a guitar. He also appeared at PDX Wrestling (the new-age Portland Wrestling, run by Sandy Barr's son Josh) teaming with a local fan favorite against two villains.
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There is currently being filmed an instructional video and a new documentary highlighting his friendship, dance relationship with the Ernest "Brownie" Brown and the spectacular return to the Chair Dance routine, one of the classics of the 1930s. In 2004 Reginald “the Hoofer” obtained the prestigious Master Apprentice Award of Illinois Arts Council.
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Dainty was born in Wolverhampton Street, Dudley, Worcestershire. His father kept a shop at the front of the family home. He made his stage debut as the only boy dancer in a troupe of girls. Later, his family moved to London, where he took tap-dancing lessons from the American- born hoofer Buddy Bradley.
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She performed in Broadway musicals including My Girl (1924), The Ramblers (1926), Ups-A-Daisy (1928), Battling Butter (1923), and Merry, Merry (1925). She was both a stage and film actress. Saxon's films included Broadway Hoofer (1930). Saxon married Sidne Silverman, the publisher of Variety, an entertainment publication founded by his father, Sime Silverman, on May 31, 1924.
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He appeared in a revival of the play The Time of Your Life playing the aspiring "hoofer" Harry, a role originated on Broadway by Gene Kelly. In 1949, Roberts went on to create and become part owner of the Players Ring, another prominent Hollywood theatre group of the day."New Theater Group Formed" (November 18, 1951). Los Angeles Times Part III, pg. 10.
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He was the recipient of the American Tap Dance Foundation's Hoofer Award in 2004 and his last performance was at their 2008 Tap City festival in New York with Mr. McLaughlin with whom he appeared in the Chicago Human Rhythm Project Emmy- nominated documentary, JUBA — Masters of Tap and Percussive Dance. Brown died in Chicago at the age of 93.
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Sims was born in 1925 in Inglewood, California to vaudeville performers Kate Haley and John Sims. His father was a vaudeville hoofer, and Sims prided himself on remembering many of the steps his father taught him. Growing up in a performing family, he learned to play drums and clarinet at an early age. His brother was the trombonist Ray Sims.
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Mavis Turner conducts instruction in tap dancing inside a Buffalo, New York church basement. Once an aspiring Broadway hoofer, Mavis is now merely trying to make ends meet, while also struggling with a personal relationship with a career- frustrated musician boyfriend. With the glum Mrs. Fraser accompanying on piano, Mavis tries to teach tap to a class of colorful women and a solitary man, the bashful Geoffrey.
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A number of words from Polari have entered mainstream slang. The list below includes words in general use with the meanings listed: acdc, barney, blag, butch, camp, khazi, cottaging, hoofer, mince, ogle, scarper, slap, strides, tod, [rough] trade. The Polari word ', meaning inferior or tacky, has an uncertain etymology. Michael Quinion states that it is probably from the sixteenth-century Italian word ', meaning "a despicable person".
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Born William Andrew Jones in the Wollaston neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts, DeWolfe was the son of a Welsh bookbinder who encouraged him to become a Baptist minister. Instead, Billy developed an interest in the theatre. He found work as an usher before becoming a dancer with the Jimmy O'Connor Band.UPI. "Vet hoofer, actor Billy De Wolfe dies," Pacific Stars & Stripes (March 8, 1974), page 3.
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A floundering Harlem barbershop is the setting and the cauldron of action that leads to tragic consequences. Russell B Parker, a former vaudeville hoofer, is a man of big dreams but small ambitions. He hardly works at all in fact, often spending the time incessantly playing checkers with his friend, William Jenkins. Parker lives with Theopolis and Bobby, his two unemployed sons, and Adele, his hard-working daughter.
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They travelled with Newton in 2004 to entertain US troops in Kuwait and Iraq. In 2008, Reel Images Film and Video Group released Rodney Thompson's Sons of a Hoofer, a documentary movie about The McFadden Brothers that premiered at Kansas City's historic Gem Theater with a live performance by Lonnie and Ronald. In 2012, McFadden recorded the CD I Believe in Music. The openly biographical CD reflects his life in music.
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Although the critical response was generally favorable, the film could not overcome the disadvantages of its small budget and the lack of wide distribution caused by its release by a newly formed independent company bucking a system dominated by the major studios. With no breakout songs in the not very memorable score, there was little chance of the film succeeding. Something to Sing About was re-released in 1947 by Screencraft Pictures under the title Battling Hoofer.
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Tom Patricola (January 22, 1891 – January 1, 1950) was an American actor, comic and dancer who starred in vaudeville and motion pictures. Born in New Orleans, Patricola established his fame as a hoofer, becoming a leading interpreter of the Black Bottom dance. Besides excelling at eccentric dances, Patricola also sang and played the ukulele. Marketing himself as a novelty act, Patricola was described as a "mop gone crazy" as he danced while simultaneously singing and playing the ukulele.
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He has received the Hoofer Award from the American Tap Dance Foundation (2009) and the Flo-Bert Award (2010). Skinner's tap dancing has been heard on numerous recordings including Lucky In The Rain, Sondheim At The Movies, 110 In The Shade, and Strike Up The Band.Randy Skinner, Broadway World, accessed May 8, 2009 On September 11, 2017 Skinner directed the inaugural production of the Chita Rivera Awards for Dance and Choreography held at the Hirschfeld Theatre.Fierberg, Ruthie.
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The story is told in a series of vignettes and musical numbers that serve to show events in flashback. Our narrative link is New York radio star Jed Potter, who once was a renowned Broadway hoofer. The conceit is that he is on the air, telling his life story, which does not yet have an ending. The tale starts just after World War I and centers on two men who became friends in the Army: rising dancer Potter and business-minded Johnny Adams.
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Although the plot was not based on any of the previously released Lucky Luke albums, almost every character and every incident in the film is a reference to the albums. For example, the idea of the Dalton Brothers trying to take over the town by becoming sheriff, judge, etc., is based on Lucky Luke contre Joss Jamon. The burgomeister is based on Herbert Hoofer from Le Pied-tendre and the barman is based on George le Barman from the same album.
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At the age of five, Robinson began dancing for small change, appearing as a "hoofer" or busker in local beer gardens and in front of theaters for tossed pennies. A promoter saw him performing outside the Globe Theater in Richmond and offered him a job as a "pick" in a local minstrel show. At that time, minstrel shows were staged by white performers in blackface. Pickaninnies were cute black children at the edge of the stage singing, dancing, or telling jokes.
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Roxane Butterfly is a tap dancer and choreographer. Hailing from Toulon (Southern France), she is the first European tap-dancer to have gained the status of permanent resident of America in the quality of Hoofer. Known for her conceptual approach of the form and her daring musical experimentations, Butterflyhas been a figure on the international tap scene since the early nineties. It was her mentor, the bebop tap dancer Jimmy Slyde, who nicknamed her ´Butterfly` because of her light and fast dance style.
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Slyde earned many awards including the Choreographer's Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1984, 85, 86, 88, and 1993; as well as a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1999; the Charles "Honi" Coles Award in 2001; the Hoofer Award of the American Tap Dance Federation in 2002; an honorary doctorate of Performing Arts in American Dance from Oklahoma City University in 2002; the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship in 2003; and a Dance Magazine Award in 2005.
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"Survive or die" was the credo. In an eccentric fusion of > imitation and innovation, young dancers were forced to find their style and > rhythmic voice. It was said that on the wall of the Hoofers Club was > written: "Thou shalt not copy each other's steps — Exactly." Though he frequently took opportunities to explain the difference between tap and hoofing to the press in later years, and tended to refer to himself as a hoofer rather than a tap dancer, Sims did practice both forms of dance.
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Toonopedia: Toots and Casper During the early years of the strip, Toots' had a brunette haircut, but by 1925 Murphy changed her hair color to a reddish blond, which was kept until the strip ended. Other characters included Casper's conceited neighbor Colonel Hoofer (alongside his wife Sophie and their son Teddy), who often found himself short on cash. Toots' uncles Everett Chuckle and Abner were also featured. Everett found and married his long-lost sweetheart Elsie in 1929, while Abner married Ellen Sullivan in 1934.
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The Langenberg lies in the south of the Habichtswald Highlands. Its northern part is located in the county of Kassel and its southern part, the Gudensberg Forest (Gudensberger Wald), in the county of Schwalm-Eder-Kreis. In the Habichtswald Nature Park both parts extend west to southwest into the borough of Baunatal. Northeast of the Langenberge, on the far side of the Hoofer Pforte and Schauenburg castle ruins (499.9 m) and the adjoining valley of the Bauna to the east, is the High Habichtswald (Hoher Habichtswald).
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Sammy Petrillo was born Sam Patrello in The Bronx, New York City, New York, to a show-business family in which his mother, Anne Jackowitz Patrello,Havesi, Dennis. "Sammy Petrillo, an Actor and Nightclub Comedian, Dies at 74", The New York Times, August 24, 2009, p. D8 was Alice Faye's double, and his father, Abraham Patrello, "was a comic and a hoofer" [dancer] who performed in Catskills Mountains resorts and went by the stage name Skelly Petrillo. By age six, Sammy would sometimes join his father onstage.
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Reggio the Hoofer is currently the principal Tap Dance teacher at Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago. He is the producer and writer of his annual Christmas Show called “The Nut Tapper”, a unique, spirited, exhilarating and multicultural percussive variation of the classic ballet from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. The Nut Tapper is a swinging recreation of this popular holiday classic with fascinating rhythms of Tap, Spanish Gypsy Flamenco, Mexican Zapateado, Appalachian Clog etc. Reginald McLaughlin creates special artistic programs for children in difficult environments and performs in children hospitals.
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Several annual campus events are organized by the club such as the Rail Jam freestyle competition at Union South and ski and snowboard movie premieres. Since 1963 the club has hosted a ski and snowboard resale every December, which has grown to be the largest in the Midwest. At the resale the local community can buy and sell new or used ski and snowboard equipment. Hoofer Ski and Snowboard Club also offers lessons to those who would like to learn to ski or ride or would like to improve their skills.
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The Wisconsin Union is a membership organization at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. It operates the Memorial Union, Union South, the Morgridge Center for Public Service, the Hoofer Equestrian Center, Bernie's Place Child Care Center, and a number of food outlets on campus in order to "provide a common life and cultivated social program for its members." Anyone who is approved can join the Wisconsin Union by paying a membership fee. All UW students are members and recent graduates are offered a substantial discount on a life membership.
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Polari is a cant used by some actors, circus performers, and the gay subculture to communicate without outsiders understanding. Some Polari terms have crossed over into mainstream slang, in part through their usage in pop song lyrics and other works. Example include: acdc, barney, blag, butch, camp, khazi, cottaging, hoofer, mince, ogle, scarper, slap, strides, tod, [rough] trade (rough trade). Verlan (), (verlan is the reverse of the expression "l'envers") is a type of argot in the French language, featuring inversion of syllables in a word, and is common in slang and youth language.
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"I started playing [Fats Waller's] 'Your Feet's Too Big' on the piano and Elizabeth joined in like we'd been singing that duet together for decades," Palazzo recalled. Elizabeth recounted how "everyone else in the room just faded away while we geeked out." The duo began regularly meeting to play music for their own enjoyment. A college acquaintance of Evan's – or "Bibs" as he came to be known – heard that they might be looking for a tap dancer for the band and put them in touch with their first hoofer, Edwin "Fast Eddy" Francisco.
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Albertson joined the vaudeville road troupe known as the Dancing Verselle Sisters. He then worked in burlesque as a hoofer (soft shoe dancer) and straight man to Phil Silvers on the Minsky's Burlesque Circuit. Besides vaudeville and burlesque, he appeared on the stage in many Broadway plays and musicals, including High Button Shoes, Top Banana, The Cradle Will Rock, Make Mine Manhattan, Show Boat, Boy Meets Girl, Girl Crazy, Meet the People, The Sunshine Boys – for which he received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor, and The Subject Was Roses – for which he won a Tony for Best Supporting Actor.
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He began his career as a dancer and did not turn to comedy until 1940 when he joined with a fellow hoofer in the "Two Zephyrs" to replace one of its members who had previously passed away. White and his partner, Clarence Schelle, had appeared on The Major Bowes Amateur Hour. The "Two Zephyrs" made the circuits together for over four years appearing with such notables as Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and many others. With his team "Slappy" was first introduced to Californians, making his West Coast debut in Los Angeles at the Orpheum Theatre along with Louis Armstrong.
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Hoofer Badger Sloops on Lake Mendota behind Memorial Union Memorial Union is home to many arts venues, including several art galleries, a movie theater, the Wisconsin Union Theater, and a craft shop that provides courses and facilities for arts and crafts activities. Students and Madison community members alike congregate at the Memorial Union for the films and concerts each week. An advisory referendum to renovate and expand Memorial Union was approved by the student body in 2006, and the university is currently undergoing the expansion. Union South, the newer campus union, was built in 1971 to better accommodate a growing student enrollment and was demolished in 2008.
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Ernest "Brownie" Brown (April 25, 1916 – August 21, 2009) was an African American tap dancer and last surviving member of the Original Copasetics. He was the dance partner of Charles "Cookie" Cook, with whom he performed from the days of vaudeville into the 1960s. They performed in film, such as the Dorothy Dandridge 1942 "soundie" Cow Cow Boogie, on Broadway in the 1952 musical Kiss Me, Kate, twice at the Newport Jazz Festival, as well in other acts, including "Garbage and His Two Cans" in which they played the garbage cans. Brown's partner for his last 16 years was Reginald McLaughlin, known as Reggio the Hoofer.
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Something to Sing About, (1937), re-released in 1947 as Battling Hoofer,TCM Notes is the second and final film James Cagney made for Grand National Pictures - the first being Great Guy - before mending relations with and returning to Warner Bros. It is one of the few films besides Footlight Parade and Yankee Doodle Dandy to showcase Cagney's singing and dancing talents. It was directed by Victor Schertzinger, who also wrote the music and lyrics of the original songs, as well as the story that Austin Parker's screenplay is based on. Cagney's co-stars are Evelyn Daw and William Frawley, and the film features performances by Gene Lockhart and Mona Barrie.
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"Rowe, Billy. "Difference Between 'Hot' and 'Swing' Mikados – Billy Rowe Gives Courier Readers The Real Low Down", Pittsburgh Courier, May 20, 1939, p. 20 It follows both the story line of The Mikado and the spectacle of the original and was noted for its wild costuming. "Rosa Brown's outfit, a winged dress with train and a gigantic hat, weighed thirty-five pounds." The spectacle and jazzed-up score received enthusiastic reviews and drew audiences; "critic George Jean Nathan presented it as the 'best all-around musical show', named Nat Karson 'the season’s best costumer', and hailed two performers, Rosa Brown as 'best blues singer' and, to no one's surprise, Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson as 'best hoofer.
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In September 1946, during his first tour with the young company, Grant was transferred to the main company in Covent Garden, today's Royal Ballet.Judith Cruikshank, "Alexander Grant," obituary, The Guardian (London), 4 October 2011. Because of the shortage of male dancers during the war years, he was swiftly promoted to soloist and assigned featured roles in the Sadler's Wells repertory. Frederick Ashton, chief choreographer of the company, noticed him right away and cast him as a music hall hoofer in the Popular Song duet in Façade. Then, in 1947, guest choreographer Léonide Massine chose him for the leading role of the Barber in a revival of his comic ballet Mam'zelle Angot, a lighthearted romp of amorous pursuits.
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In 2016, she starred in Israel Horovitz's new play Out Of The Mouths Of Babes along with Judith Ivey directed by Barnet Kellman at The Cherry Lane Theater in New York City. In 2004, Parsons was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame."Hall of Fame honors hoofer" Variety, October 24, 2004. Her film career includes an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Blanche Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde (1967), and a nomination for Rachel, Rachel (1968). She received a BAFTA Award nomination for her role in Watermelon Man (1970), and appeared in I Never Sang for My Father (1970), Two People (1973), A Memory of Two Mondays (1974), For Pete's Sake (1974), Dick Tracy (1990) and Boys on the Side (1995).
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"Terry Rooney" (James Cagney) is the stage name of Thaddeus McGillicuddy, a popular New York band leader and hoofer with a radio show, who gets an offer to go to Hollywood to make movies. He leaves behind his fiancee, the band's singer, Rita Wyatt (Evelyn Daw), and finds himself in the hands of studio boss B.O. Regan (Gene Lockhart), who sets a team of studio professionals to mold Rooney into a star. Regan, after struggling with another new talent who quickly developed an uncontrollable ego, also secretly insists that no one praise Rooney's work, on pain of being fired. While shooting a bar fight for his first film, a stunt man who is supposed to throw a fake punch at Rooney hits him deliberately instead.
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" Other reviews of the film were more positive. New York Times critic Roger Greenspun called it "an oddly pleasant movie" in which "everybody is likable." Leon Flemming praised Madelaine Sherwood, calling her "appealingly grotesque as a down-and-out hoofer who lives on very precarious credit at the hotel," before concluding, "Wicked, Wicked should be seen with tongue-in-cheek, the same spirit in which it was created." Gary W. Stratton said the film was "better than average" with "credible" acting, and he called the reveal of the killer's motivation "the best part," but like most every film critic - whether they liked the movie or hated it - he pointedly added to his review, "most of the time the double picture does not add to the film.
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Lilly was a former hoofer with the Westwood Girls (a showgirl), performing throughout Europe and the Far East at the close of World War II. She was married to Jack Temple, manager of the Westwood Girls, until he died in 1983. She arrives in Albert Square in 1998 when she moves into a flat with fellow senior-citizen Dot Cotton (June Brown) when both of their respective homes burn down. Lilly's fun-loving, cheeky personality is in stark contrast to Dot's and the two often wind each other up with their obvious personality differences. She once even tries to persuade Dot that Jeff Healy (Leslie Schofield) has amorous intentions towards her, which has Dot in a bit of a fluster.
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Kitty O'Hara (Jane Withers) has a good singing voice but will have nothing to do with trying to use it in the theatre or on the radio. She and her grandfather, Danny O'Hara (Frank Craven), and ex-vaudeville hoofer, work in a Broadway drug store, rendezvous of young aspiring actors and performers, Danny and his friend Johnny McCloud (Jimmy Lydon), embryo writer of musicals, conspire to have Kitty's voice auditioned by a radio man. Her anger at discovering she's been tricked subsides when Johnny's induction notice into the U.S. Army arrives, and she tries to interest Broadway producer Ralph Hodges (George Cleveland) in Johnny's musical show. It is auditioned, using the talents of all young unknown performers, and Hodges wants to buy it, but without the youthful talent.
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In the theatre version of the "Sammy Davis Jr. Story" he played the role of Sammy Davis' father and choreographed the tap numbers. At the Marcus Center of the Performing Arts in Milwaukee he was the featured tap dancer and choreographer of a production called "We are the Drum". For the 150th anniversary for the Chicago Tribune Reggio was brought in as a specialty act with the Chicago Jazz Ensemble. Reggio 'the Hoofer' Reggio has been featured on educational television programs such as Art Safari, Art Beat Chicago, and Inside Kentucky Schools. His feet are featured dancing to the documentary narration about the famous singer, Nat King Cole, he also appears in “Gallery 37 a portrait of Chicago Youth” and “Vanishing Act”. He has also been featured in JUBA- Masters of the tap, a tap documentary that has aired on PBS where he danced with his partner Ernest “Brownie” Brown, a legendary tap dancer who died in 2009 at the age of 93.
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