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At 22, she married a fellow tap dancer, Omar Edwards.

It isn't every day that a tap dancer gets a MacArthur.

The tap dancer and choreographer Caleb Teicher is on a roll.

Put those two together, and you sort of get a tap dancer.

The artist-in-residence will be the tap dancer and choreographer Michelle Dorrance.

The camp soon became a platform for black performers whose popularity had waned stateside, including the master drummer George Reed, who played behind jazz giants like Charlie Parker; the singer and tap dancer Mable Lee; and the tap dancer Skip Cunningham.

He's a bowling ball between the tackles and a tap dancer at the edge.

She is the one thing no other professional tap dancer has ever been: dorky.

The work's choreographers are Michelle Dorrance, the innovative tap dancer, and Nicholas Van Young.

Like Beyoncé or Prince, the tap dancer Dormeshia is singular enough to need no surname.

If a tap dancer arrives to blow your mind midsong, don't say you weren't warned.

It's normal to walk down the street to see the best tap dancer ever in history.

Other performers include the MacArthur recipient and tap dancer Michelle Dorrance and the tango star Gabriel Missé.

We don't know the real name of Juba, the first great American tap dancer, and may never.

Go: The master tap dancer Savion Glover has a new show, at the Joyce Theater in Manhattan.

Fabray was a beloved star of stage and screen, as well as a gifted singer and tap dancer.

On Monday night, the spring gala unveils a pièce d'occasion by the tap dancer and choreographer Michelle Dorrance.

Making a triumphant debut as a leader there on Tuesday, this tap dancer radiated joy and personified it.

The rotating cast of housemates features a diversity of characters, ranging from a tap dancer to a hat designer.

Watch the tap dancer Caleb Teicher perform a solo that samples female tappers, including Mable Lee and Ann Miller.

DORRANCE DANCE The tap dancer and choreographer Michelle Dorrance energizes the Joyce Theater with her vivacious spirit and skill.

A tap dancer who sounded clean and clear to someone across the way could sound muddy to someone above.

At several points, he actually falls down — crashes to the ground and flails there, a tap dancer disarmed by being horizontal.

Mr. MacDonald, who is 32 and a professional tap dancer, teaches and performs with Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox, among other groups.

A. O. SCOTT With his chinchilla streak of white hair, the tap dancer and choreographer Caleb Teicher has always seemed singular.

Mr. Teicher, a talented tap dancer and choreographer, presents "More Forever," a work in process created with the musician Conrad Tao.

Bostwick manages 25 women and three men, aged 60-92 (she says the 92-year-old is a world-class tap dancer).

Also in 2020, she'll be at the prestigious Umbria Jazz Festival as an artist-in-residence, a first for a tap dancer.

At the start of this century, it often appeared that in the eyes of presenters, only one tap dancer existed: Savion Glover.

A range of other young performers will join throughout the night, including the vocalist Vuyo Sotashe and the tap dancer Michela Marino Lerman.

Credit...Sabrina Santiago for The New York Times Like Beyoncé or Prince, the tap dancer Dormeshia is singular enough to need no surname.

Oliver Button is a multi-enthusiast who doesn't understand why his oversize talent (he's a tap dancer) makes him a target for bullies.

Soon after being released from prison, Billy (Gallo) kidnaps a tap dancer named Layla (Christina Ricci) and forces her to pose as his wife.

The "reboxed cover" — a spin on PMJ's original New Orleans blues remake of the song — includes a special cameo by tap dancer Sarah Reich.

The MacArthur Award-winning tap dancer Michelle Dorrance and her company, Dorrance Dance, offers a good reason to escape the holiday mayhem: two exuberant works.

The daughter of a ballet dancer and a champion soccer coach, Michelle Dorrance is a tap dancer of gawky grace with especially quick, smart feet.

The MacArthur grant-winning tap dancer Michelle Dorrance will also return to perform a revised — and expanded — version of her 221 work "Myelination" (Dec. 19-31).

The depiction is, in part, a homage to Mable Lee, a tap dancer in hundreds of films and nightclub acts who died this year, at 97.

To sit five or six feet away made a person want to reel back decades of career choices and become the world's most passionate talentless tap dancer.

I started as a tap dancer, so I got into it by thinking about the rhythms of things and what I would do if I were tapping.

Dorrance Dance — the company led by Michelle Dorrance, the most prominent and ubiquitous tap dancer today — made its first appearance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Wednesday.

Abby Zbikowski received the 2017 Juried Bessie Award, which was decided by a committee including the choreographers Kyle Abraham and Beth Gill, and the tap dancer Brenda Bufalino.

The episode centers on Ilana's gig as a hapless aide at the candidate's Brooklyn headquarters, after earlier stints as a subway tap dancer and a wig-rocking bike messenger.

He's a tap dancer who is equally at home in other American folk forms — jazz, soft-shoe, the Lindy — and he's funny, charming, elusive, seeming always to resist categorization.

Cole, the tap dancer who waited in his dressing room, told the Boston Herald, "From there on out whenever I go to a place, I look for an exit."

Not long after seeing Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in "Flying Down to Rio" (213), their first screen pairing, he decided that he wanted to be a tap dancer.

It's difficult enough to tap dance on a grave if the ground is still soft, but even more difficult and disturbing if the tap dancer just kind of stands there.

In pictures from the 1966 World Festival of Negro Arts, DaSilva — also an actor and a tap dancer — appears in his images alongside Ella Fitzgerald, Ingrid Bergman, and Louis Armstrong.

The man soon to be formerly known as Captain America (and his hardy face curtain) is an unironic tap dancer, a normal-sized human IRL and a Rebecca Solnit fanboy.

Bojangles was the first black tap dancer to make it really big on Broadway, and as a hats-off, Congress designated May 25 as National Tap Dance Day in 1989.

The extraordinary tap dancer Michelle Dorrance, new to the festival this year, choreographed a little pièce d'occasion for herself, Melissa Toogood, Lil Buck and Mr. Fairchild that was good fun.

This year's Bessies is hosted by the tap dancer and actress Ayodele Casel and the choreographer and dancer Shernita Anderson, and honors those who have excelled in dance and performance.

" Later that year, Ms. Casel was introduced to Baakari Wilder, whom she described as "a real tap dancer," who was "in the culture in a different way than I was.

As part of New York City Center's new initiative "City Center on the Move," Casel, a tap dancer and a Bronx native, will visit each of New York's five boroughs.

"Swing is from the inside," the legendary tap dancer Jimmy Slyde once said, referring to that special quality—a mixture of panache and freedom—that elevates a dancer beyond sheer technical brilliance.

The tap master returns to the Joyce with a new evening-length work inspired by an imaginary conversation between himself and Gregg Burge, a tap dancer and choreographer who died in 2924.

Following the premiere of "Everything Must Go," his Bruckner curtain raiser for the full orchestra, he gave an intimate concert that included improvisations with Ms. Lee and the tap dancer Caleb Teicher.

Program A (on Wednesday and March 22) features the flamenco pair Sonia Olla and Ismael Fernandez, the tap dancer Andrew Nemr, the choreographer Loni Landon and a solo from Urban Bush Women.

The same year, operators of a ship that had taken men from the Bowery Mission on a day cruise were fined for running an unlicensed cabaret because a tap dancer was on board.

Here are some free performances to attend this week: Today: The tap dancer Jason Samuels Smith and other Broadway actors perform a tribute to Mr. Parker's music at Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem.

Charles "Buddy" Butler, a 1968 alum, told the paper it was proudly displayed in a glass case in the fine arts building next to a pair of legendary tap dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson's shoes.

DORRANCE DANCE Before she was anointed a "genius" by the MacArthur Foundation, the forward-thinking tap dancer and choreographer Michelle Dorrance brought "The Blues Project" to the Joyce Theater for three sold-out nights.

There are many points to be made about an excellent show like "And Still You Must Swing," led by Dormeshia, a tap dancer of exceptional elegance, dazzling speed and, yes, an abundance of technique.

The Sacred Sunday Band and Gospel Choir, led by the musical director Anthony Evans, provides the music, accompanied by the vocalist Jeannine Otis and the tap dancer DeWitt Fleming Jr. 212-581-3080, birdlandjazz.

Two new works — one by the tap dancer and choreographer Michelle Dorrance and one by Jessica Lang — will headline American Ballet Theater's fall season at the David H. Koch Theater, the company announced on Tuesday.

The MacArthur Award-winning tap dancer, joined by her eclectic company, Dorrance Dance, winds down the year at the Joyce Theater in Manhattan with two works that celebrate the agility of the body and brain.

Their project will feature performances and readings by poet Aja Monet, tap dancer Cartier Williams, pianist Samora Pinderhughes, and an opportunity to dance — which is one reason you came to Miami in the first place, right?

Mr. Marsalis works with the tap dancer Mr. Grimes in "(The Ever-Fonky Lowdown)," a production featuring three dancers, the 15-piece Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, three guest vocalists and Wendell Pierce as the narrator.

This MacArthur Award-winning tap dancer (a label she acquired last year and that can still cause double takes) is a choreographer with a growing ability to spread her virtuosity across an ensemble and through extended compositions.

The ad uses a tap dancer in the background to illustrate Ms. Abrams "dancing around the truth," which enraged some observers who connected the analogy to the trope of black Americans tap dancing in the segregated South.

The great tap dancer John Bubbles also does a sublime strutting routine to "Shine," a song with hackle-raising lyrics and one of several numbers interpolated into the film, along with celebrities like Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong.

But when the lights come up, you see that it is the tap dancer Caleb Teicher, caressing a sanded floor with his leather shoes: not a scratchy old record at all, but a young artist trying new things.

The choreographer and director Rachel Cohen, performing with four other cast members and the tap dancer Heather Cornell, makes clever use of wood planks to build and dismantle worlds, construct and disassemble armor, and bring puppets to life.

The only direction he received was for his program to be related to the orchestra's, so he decided to take inspiration from the religious, ritualistic aspects of Bruckner's music, with guests including the choreographer and tap dancer Caleb Teicher.

The Shakes include the dulcet-tongued South African vocalist Vuyo Sotashe, the tap dancer and vocalist Michela Marino Lerman, the tenor saxophonists Julian Lee and Ruben Fox, the keyboardist Mathis Picard, the bassist Russell Hall and the drummer Kyle Poole.

The tap dancer and choreographer Michelle Dorrance, who has won critical plaudits and a coveted MacArthur Foundation fellowship, will create three works for American Ballet Theater dancers, starting with a piece d'occasion for Ballet Theater's spring gala on May 21.

A choir, a tap dancer in garish attire, flamenco dancers, male models wearing jean onesies, and some curious characters in white rabbit costumes are all moving around on the makeshift stage, to music that's slow but rhythmic, often spaced out by cymbals.

The shows, portrayed as vaudeville with a hint of circus, featured female impersonators, ventriloquists, magicians, snake charmers, as well as a world-famous tap dancer named Peg Leg Bates, the "one-legged dancing man" who performed twice for the British royal family.

The great singer, dancer, actress and activist Lena Horne would have turned 20163 this past June (she died in 2010), and in honor of that anniversary, the vocalist Candice Hoyes and the tap dancer Dormeshia Sumbrey-Edwards have teamed up to pay tribute.

Her show "ETM: Double Down" (at the Joyce, April 26-May 1) is a collaboration with Nicholas Van Young, a fellow tap dancer whose interests lie in the use of technology to expand and multiply tap's rhythms and range of sounds. ♦

"Mable had a way and she cared to teach it," said the tap dancer Michelle Dorrance, the most prominent member of a generation of dancers, younger than Ms. Lee by a half century or more, who were strongly and directly influenced by her.

Every year since then, around that date — the birthday of Bill Robinson, the most famous African-American tap dancer of the first half of the 20th century — tap dancers have celebrated their art with performances and get-togethers, around the country and the world.

Last week, workers were putting the final touches on sleek state-of-the-art lighting towers and a network of new dressing rooms, as a long-anticipated $75 million restoration project comes to an end with an inaugural performance by Savion Glover, the tap dancer, on July 15.

"We're learning a lot from one another," said Justin Prescott, a 28-year-old dancer from Houston who has never seen a Cirque show, but is now performing in "Paramour" — he is the featured tap dancer at the show's start, and is learning to do simple acrobatics on a vertical pole.

Some of them will be featured on LinkNYC kiosks this month, including Mable Lee, a jazz tap dancer and singer; Sarah J. S. Tompkins Garnet, the first African-American female principal of a New York public school; and Verina Morton Jones, the first woman licensed to practice medicine in Mississippi.

Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, Kennedy Center Ms. Sumbry-Edwards is a tap dancer with a gift both kinetic and musical, and on a version of "In a Sentimental Mood," featuring the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance Ensemble, she engaged in agile repartee with the pianist Carmen Staaf, both parties listening and responding deeply.

The Asbury Park Dance Festival, held at House of Independents, will feature a splendid array of dance artists including Annique Roberts of Ronald K. Brown/Evidence; the tap dancer and choreographer Caleb Teicher; and the choreographer Pam Tanowitz who contributes repertory excerpts in a new arrangement featuring Melissa Toogood, Trusnovec and Fleet.

A full lineup will be announced a future date, though the roster of artists is to include the star ballerina Misty Copeland, in a work by Kyle Abraham; the New York City Ballet principal dancers Sara Mearns and Taylor Stanley, in a piece choreographed by Kim Brandstrup; the tap dancer Caleb Teicher; and Georgina Pazcoguin, also of City Ballet, in a selection of Bob Fosse dances for Gwen Verdon.

When I was a little kid in Chicago Jimmy Yancey, the great blues and boogie-woogie piano player, worked as a groundskeeper at Comiskey Park, where the White Sox played— Years later, I listened to his records and did the best I could to imitate his left hand, not knowing he'd played baseball for the Chicago All-Americans in the Negro Leagues, throwing down his best curves and sliders on both the black and white keys, remembering how he'd appeared as a tap dancer and pianist in Europe and at Carnegie Hall, then kept his day job working at Comiskey for twenty-five years, until he died in 1951, sweeping the infield

He was a terrible tap dancer, by contrast, but undauntable.

Fine 92. Winter wrote that "[t]he repertoire of any > current tap-dancer contains elements which were established theatrically by > him". Dancer Mark Knowles has echoed this assertion, calling Juba "America's > first real tap dancer".Knowles 30.

Savion Glover (born November 19, 1973) is an American tap dancer, actor, and choreographer.

Gregg Burge (November 14, 1957 – July 4, 1998) was an American tap dancer and choreographer.

Roy Julen (born May, 1976) is a Dutch tap dancer, actor, and choreographer of Surinamese origin.

Rod Howell (born March 23, 1975) is an American tap dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, and musician.

Mel Winkler (October 23, 1941 – June 11, 2020) was an American actor and a tap dancer.

Indie-pop band Tilly and the Wall also features a tap dancer, Jamie Pressnall, tapping as percussion.

Rusty Frank is an American tap dancer, producer, writer, choreographer, lindy hopper, historian and tap-dance preservationist.

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.

Over the years, Mager had also been an accomplished unicyclist, banjo player, ventriloquist, crime novelist, and tap dancer.

Karie is married to tap dancer Kazunori Kumagai, with whom she has one daughter. She currently lives in New York City.

Paul Draper Jr. (October 25, 1909 – September 20, 1996) was a noted American tap dancer and choreographer. Born into an artistic, socially prominent New York family, the nephew of Ruth Draper was an innovator in the arts. His passion and unique style led him to international stardom. One signature piece was Sonata for Tap Dancer, danced without musical accompaniment.

Malcolm Macleod (born in Edinburgh in 1965) is a Scottish neurologist, and semi-professional tap dancer, having developed a passion in his youth.

Jimmy Mordecai (July 11, 1905 - May 7, 1966) also known as James Mordecai was a Harlem-based jazz tap dancer in the 1920s and 1930s.

Sadie Corré (31 May 1918 – 26 August 2009) was an English actress, tap dancer, comic performer and leading pantomime cat. She was sometimes credited as Sadie Corrie.

Pamela Joan Raff (January 13, 1952 - November 20, 2009) was a British-American tap dancer. Raff performed, developed choreography and taught dance mainly in the Boston area.

Andrew Barrow (born 1945) is a British journalist and author. His The Tap Dancer won the 1993 Hawthornden Prize and the McKitterick Prize for the best first novel by an author aged over 40.An Almanack Joseph Whitaker 1993 - Snippet view - More editions Andrew Barrow's The Tap Dancer won the Mc- Kirterick Prize for the best first novel by an author aged over 40, and the Hawthornden Prize.

Alexander Ivashkevich (alternately spelled as Aleksandr Ivaškevitš in Estonia, and as Aleksander Ivashkevich; ) (born April 27, 1960) is a professional theater and movie actor and a tap dancer.

Thurman was a rodeo queen at some nearby rodeo and stock shows. Prior to starting down the rodeo path, she was a tap dancer. She also taught tap dancing.

Shen initially thought his character's surname was a joke because the character was named after the award-winning actor. Brad is bullied as a kid because he was a "fat, Chinese, gay tap dancer." Despite the bullying, Brad was extremely accomplished as a young tap dancer. On January 24, 2014, it is revealed that Brad is the son of Kim Wu (aka Kim Soong) (Steven Leigh), and great-grandson of Mr. Wu (Aki Aleong).

Kerrelyn was a tap dancer and then a high school French teacher before turning her creative bent to writing. She lives in the Greater Houston area with her husband and children.

Steven McRae (born 19 December 1985) is an Australian ballet dancer and tap dancer. He is a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet, London.Steven McRae, website of the Royal Opera House.

Clair began acting as a tap dancer in Anne at Hale Center Theater in Gilbert, Arizona at the age of eight. She has sung the national anthem at an Arizona Diamondbacks' game.

Ted Louis Levy in performance Ted Louis Levy (born April 25, 1960) is an American tap dancer, singer, choreographer, and director. He is widely celebrated as one of America’s premier tap dance artists.

In 2015, OUJO performed Duke Ellington's choral composition The Sacred Concerts, in collaboration with Schola Cantorum of Oxford, saxophonist Nigel Hitchcock, and vocalist Tina May, and tap dancer Annette Walker at the Sheldonian Theatre.

Gustin won the recurring role of Sebastian, a promiscuous and scheming character, after "an exhaustive, weeks- long casting search". He originally auditioned for a role as a tap dancer, but did not get the part.

URL last accessed on 10 October 2007. As well as acting, Dean is a keen singer (with a mezzo-soprano voice) and tap dancer."BBC profiles - Letitia Dean", BBC. URL last accessed on 18 September 2006.

Through seventies and eighties, Green performed with the Copasetics. Honi Coles would introduce him as, "Chuck Green, the greatest tap dancer in the world." In 2003 Green was inducted into the Tap Dance Hall of Fame.

His father was a trumpeter and tap dancer. Hino started tap dancing at age four and playing trumpet at age nine. As a teenager, he copied solos by Clifford Brown, Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, and Lee Morgan.

A gentleman Emcee (Ford), is the host of a series of musical acts, making his professional debut, a tap dancer, two good singers and a dancer, which ends with a montage of life, in a Manhattan nightclub.

It is a pulse that keeps one rolling with the beat."Lahr, 268. Gregory Hines, a tap legend, was one of Glover's tap teachers. Hines stated that "Savion is possibly the best tap dancer that ever lived.

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".

James Titus Godbolt (October 2, 1927 – May 16, 2008), known professionally as Jimmy Slyde and also as the "King of Slides", was an American tap dancer, especially famous for his innovative tap style mixed with jazz. Slyde was a popular rhythm tap dancer in America in the mid-20th century, when he performed on the nightclub and burlesque circuits. He was also popular in Europe and lived in Paris for a brief period of his life. Slyde appeared in several musicals and shows in the 1980s, and he received numerous awards for his talent.

She began performing as a tap dancer in Detroit's Hastings Street clubs in Detroit and began singing shortly after. In the 1940s, she appeared at the B&C; club as a tap dancer, among artists such as John Lee Hooker. When headliner Kitty Stevenson was too ill to perform one night, Adams gave an impromptu two-song performance, as a result of which the club hired her as a vocalist for a five-year stint. Among her contemporaries and musical teachers on Hastings Street were Hooker, Big Maceo Merriweather, Eddie Burns, and Eddie Kirkland.

Carl Wright (February 2, 1932 - May 19, 2007) was an American tap dancer, actor, and comedian whose late life acting credits included Soul Food, Barbershop, and Big Momma's House. For several years, Wright teamed with Chicago radio legend Pervis Spann, playing a misguided and mischievous reverend on his Chicago television show "Blues and More". Born in Orlando, Florida, he toured as a tap dancer as a young man, and for a time performed as The Three-Leggers with a one-legged partner. Wright died of cancer at his home in Chicago in 2007.

Idris Ackamoor (born Bruce Baker, January 9, 1951)The Pyramids rider, 2013 is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, actor, tap dancer, producer, administrator, and director. Ackamoor is also artistic director of the world music/jazz ensemble The Pyramids.

Dein Perry is an Australian tap dancer. He is founder of the recurrent tap dance production 'Tap Dogs'. His film credits include work done on the Australian movie Bootmen, as well as choreographic work on Happy Feet 2.

Dianne Walker (born March 8, 1951), also known as Lady Di, is an American tap dancer. Her thirty-year career spans Broadway, television, film, and international dance concerts. Walker is the Artistic Director of TapDancin, Inc. in Boston, Massachusetts.

Leonard ReedLeonard Reed (January 7, 1907 in Lightning Creek, Oklahoma – April 5, 2004 in West Covina, California) was an American tap dancer, co-creator with his partner, Willie Bryant, of the famous Shim Sham Shimmy (Goofus) tap dance routine.

Is That a Gun in Your Pocket? Women's Experience of Power in Hollywood. New York: Random House, , p. 289 She began her career as a tap dancer at age three, and later taught tap at her mother's dance school.

Jackson convinced Cotton to engage Kaye as an assistant and as a singer in his band. Engaged as a tap dancer with Billy Cotton's show band in 1936, Kaye recorded his first song, "Shoe Shine Boy", under the name Cab Quay.

Nancy is appearing as a tap dancer in a charity show. Along with chums Bess and George, she begins investigating strange tapping sounds at the elderly Mrs. Purdy's home. Mrs. Purdy is a cat enthusiast who owns mostly valuable breeding stock.

Tilly and the Wall was an indie pop group from Omaha, Nebraska. Their name originated from a children's book called Tillie and the Wall, written by Leo Lionni. They are particularly noted for having a tap dancer, Jamie Pressnall, instead of a drummer.

They were learning to dance, but also to assert themselves. Maneka Gandhi was at the ceremony and spoke about the ambition of women in India. Mehta appeared with American tap dancer Jason Samuels Smith. Samuels Smith had previously toured with her mentor.

LaRedd was a popular night time performer at the Cotton Club. She worked as both a singer and a tap dancer. LaRedd's open sexuality influenced her unique performance style. During the late 1920s and into 1930 she also performed in Broadway theatre.

Charles Castle (26 May 1939 – 5 October 2013) was a South African–born British tap dancer, writer and television producer. Castle produced two documentaries, This is Richard Tauber and This is Noel Coward, which won the International Critics' Award at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival.

Mable Lee (August 2, 1921 – February 7, 2019), sometimes spelled Mabel Lee, was an American jazz tap dancer, singer, and entertainer. Lee appeared on Broadway, at the Apollo Theater, and was known as "Queen of the Soundies" due to her numerous performances in the films.

She was married three times and died, aged 80, in a house fire in 1963. Alberta died in Atlanta in 1964, and Alice died in Chicago in 1968. Alice's son, Albert "Pops" Whitman (1919-1950), became a noted tap dancer in his own right.

Tony Carl Waag (born September 8, 1957) is a tap dancer, director and producer living in New York City. In 2008, he was dubbed "The Mayor of Tap City" by Theatremania. He is currently the Executive/Artistic Director of the American Tap Dance Foundation.

Clement 2019, p. 100. His photograph of the young tap dancer Howard Fair appeared in the Vancouver Sun in 1938. Later shown in the same newspaper was his 1943 image of the paratrooper Richard Keye Mar. A number of Chow's children worked in the studio.

Grindle was born in Toledo, Ohio. His parents, Ray and Edna, were a Vaudeville family act performing at the Paramount Theater in Toledo.Kiska, Tim & Golick, Ed (2010) Detroit Television, Arcadia Publishing, , p. 52 His brother, Kenny, was a tap dancer in the family act.

LaVaughn Robinson (born LaVaughn Evett) (February 9, 1927 - January 22, 2008) was a US tap dancer, choreographer, and teacher. A virtuoso tap dancer, Robinson perfected a high speed, low to the ground, a cappella style of dance that was characterized by elegance, precision, and clarity of sound. In a career spanning over 70 years, he started performing on the street, then in nightclubs, and finally in national and international tap festivals. He was recognized by the National Endowment of the Arts as a "Living National Treasure", received a NEA National Heritage Fellowship in 1989, a lifetime honor, and a 1992 Pew Fellowship in the Arts.

Chloe Arnold is an American dancer, and an Emmy-nominated choreographer, actress, director, and producer. She is best known internationally as a tap dancer, and was recently seen on Season 11 of FOX's So You Think You Can Dance with her company Chloe Arnold's Syncopated Ladies.

In 2019, three off-Broadway performances of The State of Origin Musical! - written by Hugh Lunn with comedian and composer Gerry Connolly - were performed at The Princess Theatre in Annerley Road, Wooloongabba, a stage on which Hugh had debuted as a tap-dancer, 70-something years earlier.

He joined Josephine Baker's La Revue Nègre as a tap-dancer, and made his cabaret debut as a song- and-dance man at the Caprice Viennoise.Shack, William (2001). Harlem in Montmarte: A Paris Jazz Story Between the Great Wars, p. 39. University of California Press Ltd, California. .

The theatre was refurbished. She served as Percy Sutton's Executive Assistant for 19 years. In 1992, Maxine organized and produced a memorial tribute for tap dancer Charles Coles known as Charles "Honi" Coles at the Apollo Theatre. She began working for Inner City Broadcasting Corporation in 1982.

Tara Lynn Osseck was Miss Missouri 2009. Before being named Miss Missouri 2009, she was Miss Lake of the Ozarks 2009. Osseck is a tap dancer and her platform is "Education and Awareness of Eating Disorders". Osseck is a 2004 graduate of Duchesne High School in St. Charles, Missouri.

Stepping Toes is a 1938 British musical film directed by John Baxter and starring Hazel Ascot, Enid Stamp-Taylor and Jack Barty. The screenplay concerns a young girl who achieves her ambition to become a tap dancer. The film was made by Two Cities Films at Shepperton Studios.Wood p.

Since the late 1990s Fonda has recorded often as a bandleader. Fonda has also explored dance in relation to jazz music; he played bass with a dance company in the 1980s and incorporated a tap dancer into his ensemble for the albums From the Source and The Healing.

Washington was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He and Bubbles (born John W. Sublett) first began working together in the 1910s, while Washington was in his teens. Their duo was known as "Buck and Bubbles." Bubbles was primarily a tap dancer while Washington sang and played stride piano and sang.

Goins, Wayne; McKinney, Craig. A Biography of Charlie Christian: Jazz Guitar's King of Swing. p. 327. After a visit to the hospital that same month by the tap dancer and drummer Marion Joseph "Taps" Miller, Christian declined in health. He died March 2, 1942, at the age of 25.

William Morrow and Company, Inc. New York. The famous tap dancer, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson played a crucial role in Eddie Brown’s life as a student and a professional dancer. Brown listened to recordings of Robinson dancing and figured out how to dance like him based on the sounds.

Aaron Tolson (born Manchester, New Hampshire, United States) has been a tap dancer since 1986. He is was the assistant choreographer, co-creator and assistant producer of Imagine Tap! - a tap show created with Derick Grant. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Dance at The Boston Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts.

Alex, a former tap dancer, is an aging cafe waiter (chef de rang) in a large Parisian brasserie. He lives with his friend Gilbert, who also works at the brewery. Separated from his wife for a long time, he accumulates conquests. His dream: building an amusement park by the sea...

368-369 and At Home Abroad (1935).Green, Stanley, The World of Musical Comedy, Ziff -Davis Publishing Company, New York, 1960, p. 190 During this time, she was dubbed "the world's greatest female tap dancer" "The Record" (Hackensack, New Jersey), October 23, 1934, p. 19 due to her machine-gun footwork.

The runner-up was tap dancer Valerie Rockey. This season saw the show eliminate interactive viewer participation by telephone, with producers preferring to divert weekly voting to the show's website and the network's new proprietary smartphone app, a process that reduced the overall number of votes each participating viewer could cast each week.

Aleshire had a varied vaudeville career: he joined McMae Hill, and the troupe of magician and ventriloquist Professor Sage; and spent two years with the Cauble Brothers Circus traveling through the Midwest. He also appeared with Argentinean magician Dawes the Great, performed as a tap dancer, and toured Oklahoma with saxophonist Roy Wrightsman.

Kimura was born in Blankenburg (Harz) and raised in Japan. After spending seven years in Germany, he returned to the theater company belonging to Sanno Production. In 2002, he appeared as a tap dancer in the Broadway musical Annie. He graduated from Harumi Sogo High School, but dropped out of Asia University.

Developing expertise as a singer and tap dancer, she worked in vaudeville and toured the south in such shows as Bon Bon Buddy Jr. and Dinah. In 1924, she made her Broadway debut in Runnin' Wild, in which she introduced the Charleston dance, and became known as "the bronze Ann Pennington". Bernard L. Peterson, Profiles of African American Stage Performers and Theatre People, 1816-1960, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001 On her second tour, in Shuffle Along (1927), the entertainer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson called her "the greatest living female tap dancer". She in the 1927 Broadway production of Rang Tang,' as well as the Broadway production of Rainbow, with Charlie Ruggles, wherein she danced an "insanely comic" version of the Black Bottom.

Bayani Casimiro Sr. (July 16, 1918 - January 27, 1989) was a Filipino dancer who was among the leading stars of bodabil (vaudeville) in the 1930s and 1940s. He also appeared in musical films and later in life, in comedic roles. A tap dancer, he was frequently dubbed as the "Fred Astaire of the Philippines".

Cox continued her performing career through the 1930s. In 1935, she and Crump reorganized Raisin' Cain, which by then had been renamed Darktown Scandals, and continued to tour the South and Midwest until 1939. In the early 1930s drummer Earl Palmer entered show business as a tap dancer in Cox's Darktown Scandals revue.Scherman, Tony (1999).

Wesley was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her father, Ivery Wheeler, is a professional tap dancer, and her mother, Cassandra Wesley, was a showgirl. She attended high school at the Las Vegas Academy of International Studies, Performing and Visual Arts. She studied dance at Simba Studios and the West Las Vegas Arts Center.

Long's father is Lawrence K. Long (stage name Larry Leung), of Cantonese-Scottish background who immigrated to the United States from Australia and had a career as a tap-dancer vaudevillian and later as a PGA golf professional.Jodi Long profile, filmreference.com; accessed November 7, 2016. Long graduated from New York's High School of Performing Arts.

Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards at Stockholm Tap Festival 2013 Dormeshia Sumbry- Edwards (born January 16, 1976 in Englewood, California) is an American tap dancer, choreographer, and instructor who has been called "the mastress of her generation." In 1998, she married fellow dancer Omar Edwards and opened a studio with him in Harlem; they have three children.

In 1925 she was the choreographer at the "Casino de Paris" Music Hall. Here she recruited performers and arranged the dancing until 1929. During this time she returned to London to her house in Holborn where she recruited five dancers including the tap dancer Josie Woods. They were called the "Magnolia Blossoms" and they were taken back to Paris.

Thomas Edward Rall (December 27, 1929 – October 6, 2020) was an American actor, ballet dancer, tap dancer and acrobatic dancer who was a prominent featured player in 1950s musical comedies. He later became a successful operatic tenor in the 1960s, making appearances with the Opera Company of Boston, the New York City Opera, and the American National Opera Company.

Charles "Chuck" Green (November 6, 1919 – March 7, 1997) was an American tap dancer. Green was born in Fitzgerald, Georgia. He would stick bottle caps on his bare feet as a child and tap dance on the sidewalk for money. He won third place in a dance contest in 1925 in which Noble Sissle was the bandleader.

Ayodele Casel (born June 5, 1975) is an American actress, tap dancer and choreographer. Raised in Puerto Rico, she derived inspiration for her tap style from salsa music. While in college, she studied with Baakari Wilder and Charles Goddertz. She became the first, and remains the only, woman to be a member of Savion Glover's Not Your Ordinary Tappers.

Retrieved 17 July 2015. His mother was a "church woman". Thomas made his debut as a performer at the age of six, playing a frog in a school theatrical production. By the age of 10, he was a tap dancer, performing on the streets and in amateur productions at Booker T. Washington High School, in Memphis.

Each residency (submissions are by open application) is typically for one month; twenty-four artists have resided there as of October 2015 (including tap dancer Andrew Nemr). “You forget to eat,” Kansas City- based painter David Titterington, who stayed at Surel’s in July of that year. “I got so much done. Way more than at other residencies.

Heard was born in Dayton, Ohio and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. As a young child he performed as a tap dancer in amateur contests and vaudeville shows. Heard began to switch his focus to drumming around age 11. He started out teaching himself to play, then took lessons as a student at Cass Technical High School.

Everett Smith 25, from Glen Morris, Ontario is a tap dancer. Everett is seizing the opportunity that has been giving to him, after a close call car accident a few years back. He is looking forward to seeing his mom's face while he's on stage, as she has worked three jobs so that her son could dance.

She was known as one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's top dancing stars during the Golden Age of Hollywood, appearing in a series of musical vehicles tailored especially for her talents, including Born to Dance (1936), Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937) and Rosalie (1937). In 1965, she was named the World’s Greatest Tap Dancer by the Dance Masters of America.

Adam Gabriel Garcia (born 1 June 1973) is an Australian stage, television and film actor who is best known for lead roles in musicals such as Saturday Night Fever and Kiss Me, Kate. He is also a trained tap dancer and singer. Garcia has been nominated twice at the Laurence Olivier Awards in 1999 and 2013 respectively.

He appeared with Judy Garland in her 1967 concert at the Palace Theatre, singing "Me And My Shadow." That same year, he became partially paralyzed due to a stroke. In 1978, John Bubbles spoke at the Variety Arts Theatre in Los Angeles as a participant in a seminar on vaudeville. Someone asked him who the best tap dancer was.

She recorded with Finnish rock band Carmen Gray on their debut album for Sony BMG and performs in both solo and group line-ups in Europe and the United States. She is also known for her collaboration with tap dancer Cartier Williams. She performed in Brittany at the Festival Interceltique de Lorient in both 2007 and 2008.

Ashton was born and raised in Wood Green, North London. Trained from childhood as a singer and tap-dancer, she performed in the 1950s at seaside resorts around England in summer season shows. In the early 1960s, she toured Europe with Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop in Oh, What a Lovely War!. Early West End appearances included Half a Sixpence and The Matchgirls.

Born in Detroit, Dixon began her singing career at the age of 18. Her first gig was at the Club Ballyhoo in Detroit and eventually she performed at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. In 1939, Dixon married tap dancer Leon Collins in Detroit. In 1942, they moved to New York City where Dixon was billed to perform with the Jimmie Lunceford orchestra.

14 The family settled in a small apartment in a seedy part of Hollywood, and Granger's parents worked at various temporary jobs. Their drinking increased, and the couple frequently fought. Hoping he might become a tap dancer, Granger's mother enrolled him at Ethel Meglin's, the dance and drama instruction studio where Judy Garland and Shirley Temple had started.Include Me Out, p.

Ray Malone was a tap dancer and choreographer who appeared in films and television programs. He was a regular on Broadway Open House. He had major roles in the films Slightly Terrific and Moonlight in Vermont. He was also a guest on various shows including a handful of appearances on Dagmar's Canteen as well as on the Garry Moore Show.

The company advises us to "Just Go to the Movies". A woman's unrequited love ("It Only Takes a Moment"), segues to a very pregnant Agnes Gooch who enters singing, "It only took a moment" and then her big number "Gooch's Song". A tap dancer encourages her to "Tap Your Troubles Away". Big production numbers for leading ladies follow: "Hello, Dolly!" and "Mame".

"The Phantom Brakeman" - 1933". While Mary Alice is recently idolizing a tap dancer and film actress Shirley Temple, mismatched families of local lovers converge on Grandma's house and she uses an old ghost story to aid them. At night time Vandalia Eubanks and Junior Stubbs run away together with the help of "The Phantom Brakeman" (Joey) and Grandma. "Things with Wings" - 1934".

Lonnie McFadden (born 1956 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American jazz trumpet player, tap dancer, singer, songwriter, arranger, and recording artist. McFadden is known for his exuberant multi-genre performance style. He and his brother, Ronald McFadden, have performed a stage show for decades as The McFadden Brothers. More recently, the Kansas City-based artist leads his own jazz ensembles.

Leon Collins Leon Collins (February 7, 1922 - April 16, 1985) was an American tap dancer. Collins was born Leandre Kollins in Chicago, Illinois to a father of West Indian descent. He began tap dancing at an early age, but he wanted to be a prizefighter. As a teenager, Collins performed with worked with Count Basie's orchestra, the bands of Erksine Hawkins, Earl Hines, and Tito Puente.

MGM produced a film version of the musical in 1937."'Rosalie', Film Production, Cast, Synopsis" sondheimguide.com, accessed January 14, 2011 The film follows the story of the musical but replaces most of the score with new songs by Cole Porter. MGM's top tap dancer at the time, Eleanor Powell, was cast as the princess opposite Nelson Eddy as Dick Thorpe (Lieutenant Fay in the musical).

Yoshiki was born on November 20, 1965 in Tateyama, Chiba Prefecture, as the elder of two brothers in a musically oriented family. His father was a tap dancer and jazz pianist, his mother played the shamisen, while his aunt played the koto. He began taking piano lessons and music theory at age four. He then became interested in classical works by Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert.

Alice was the star of the show and billed as the > "Queen of Taps," enhancing such popular dances as Ballin' the Jack, Walkin' > the Dog, and the Shim-Sham-Shimmy with clear and clean tapping. She was > considered the best female tap dancer in the 1920s. Essie retired from performing in 1926. After Mabel's death in Atlanta in 1942, the company effectively ceased to exist.

He began performing again, on stage and on television. He appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival on July 6, 1963 along with Honi Coles. Then, in 1964, Green faced tap dancer Groundhog in a tap challenge at the Village Vanguard. In 1969 Green appeared with members of Harlem's Hoofers Club for a series of "Tap Happenings" that were produced in New York City by Letitia Jay.

Alberta Adams (July 26, 1917 – December 25, 2014) was an American blues singer. Raised in Detroit, Michigan, she began performing as a tap dancer and nightclub singer in the 1930s. In 1952, she signed a recording contract with Chess Records and recorded with Red Saunders for the label. She toured with Duke Ellington, Eddie Vinson, Louis Jordan, Lionel Hampton, and T-Bone Walker, among others.

The boy names himself Ronnie Rocket and becomes a rock star, befriending a tap- dancer named Electra-Cute. Michael J. Anderson and Dexter Fletcher were attached to the lead role at different times. However, the project never materialized due to financial conflicts, so Lynch left the production and decided to direct The Elephant Man instead. Also, Anderson finally worked with Lynch in Twin Peaks.

Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Craig was raised in Los Angeles, California. He was a one-time child tap dancer who graduated from California State University, Fresno with a major in business and psychology. Later, he would commit $10 million to California State University, Fresno for its School of Business and Administrative Services. Fresno State renamed their School of Business to the Sid Craig School of Business.

Bill Bailey (December 8, 1912 – December 12, 1978) was an African-American tap dancer. He was the brother of Pearl Bailey. Bill was the first person to be recorded doing the Moonwalk, although he referred to it as the "Backslide", in the film Cabin in the Sky (1943), starring Ethel Waters, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson and Lena Horne. He was trained briefly by Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.

Learning the piano and singing from a young age, Gunvor Guggisberg actually made her name at the age of 13 for her skills as a tap dancer. She won the Swiss championships and went on to take the title six more times. In her early twenties she began to emerge as a singer, winning two of Switzerland's biggest talent shows.Nul Points, Tim Moore, Vintage Books, 2006. pgs.

She made her stage- singing debut when she was 15 years old. Her brother Bill Bailey was beginning his own career as a tap dancer, and suggested she enter an amateur contest at the Pearl Theatre in Philadelphia. Bailey won and was offered $35 a week to perform there for two weeks. However, the theatre closed during her engagement and she was not paid.

In 1939, at age 20, Roberts taught and performed on weekends at Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel, which was the inspiration for "Kellerman’s Resort" in the movie Dirty Dancing. Roberts was on Showboat on NBC Television, in 1939. She also performed in USO tours, for the Marines and the Flying Tigers. During one USO hospital tour, she tap danced with Peg Leg Bates, a one-legged tap dancer.

White joined a traveling carnival and made a living as a tap dancer with the troupe. He was eventually picked up by police and returned to his family, but could not trade show business for school. He received his nickname from the manager of a local theater where he entered a talent contest with a friend; the manager billed them as "Slap and Happy".

Tom Grant was born in Portland, Oregon, to a musical family. His father was a tap dancer who owned a record store in Portland, and his brother was an avant-garde jazz pianist. Grant learned to play piano and drums when he was young. After graduating from the University of Oregon, he traveled to New York City in 1970 with Native American saxophonist Jim Pepper.

George Ivan "Van" Morrison was born on 31 August 1945, at 125 Hyndford Street, Bloomfield, Belfast, Northern Ireland, as the only child of George Morrison, a shipyard electrician, and Violet Stitt Morrison, who had been a singer and tap dancer in her youth. Morrison's family were working class Protestants descended from the Ulster Scots population that settled in Belfast.Hinton (1997), page 18.Heylin (2003), p. 4.

Joey Hollingsworth is a Black Canadian tap dancer, singer, and conga player who has performed on stage and screen throughout the world. He appeared regularly on Canadian television shows from the 1950s through the 1970s. Hollingsworth, an adoptee, began dancing at the age of three, and turned professional at age five. Hollingsworth was listed as being 10 years old when he was Page One news in The Free Press on Nov.

After high school, LaChanze studied Drama at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, before transferring to the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where she studied Theater and Dance. Her first summer job was as a tap dancer in the ensemble of Uptown... It's Hot! at the Tropicana Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The show opened on Broadway in January 1986, where LaChanze began her professional career in the theater.

The piano ballad "The 2 of Us", according to Anderson, is about loneliness against the backdrop of wealth and fame; a professional couple incapable of relating to one another emotionally. It features Anderson's favourite lyrics on the album: the snow might fall and write the line on the silent page. A tap dancer was originally heard over the middle eight section. This was removed and replaced with a flute player.

Nikolai 'Kolya' Rodchenko (Baryshnikov) is a Soviet ballet dancer who had defected from the Soviet Union. The plane carrying him to a next performance in Tokyo has electrical problems and crash lands in Siberia. He is hurt and is soon recognized by KGB officer Colonel Chaiko (Jerzy Skolimowski). Chaiko then contacts African-American tap dancer Raymond Greenwood (Hines), who has defected to the Soviet Union, and gets them both to Leningrad.

Since the marimba was not designed to be a part of the orchestra, Jack was given unique percussion instruments to play, such as bells, the triangle, and the maracas. With this development, fans began to somewhat accept Imel. Imel's career as a producer began with the hiring of tap dancer Arthur Duncan in 1964. With two hoofers on the show, Imel decided he needed to diversify, and began pitching production ideas.

They divorced in 1919. In 1920, he began a relationship with Broadway actress Alma Osbourne (known professionally as Ethel Delmar); the two were married in August 1922;Oberfirst, p. 256. she divorced Jolson in 1928. In the summer of 1928, Jolson met young tap dancer, and later actress, Ruby Keeler, in Los Angeles (Jolson would claim it was at Texas Guinan's night club) and was dazzled by her on sight.

Gabrielle Miller (born July 1986) is an Australian actress, performance artist, musician, tap dancer, mime and puppeteer. She is well-known for her appearances in advertisements for the Germany-based hotel website Trivago,Bucklow, Andrew. "Meet the woman from the Trivago commercials" (News.au, 10 June 2017) which are seen in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, Ireland, United States, South Africa and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf.

William McKinley "Willie" Covan (March 4, 1897 – May 7, 1989) was an American tap dancer, actor, vaudeville performer best known for being a member of the tap quartet The Four Covans and a choreographer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Willie Covan was born on March 4, 1897 in Atlanta, Georgia. Shortly after, his family moved to Chicago. By 1902, Willie was already tapping to the rhythms of the city.

Lonnie and his siblings were raised by their parents in the Jazz District of Kansas City, Missouri. His father, renowned tap dancer and musician Jimmy McFadden, had a strong influence on Lonnie's musical development. Jimmy, known as “Pops,” toured nationally with top, national jazz orchestras in his youth. He held deep roots in the Kansas City jazz scene and brought influential local talents into the McFadden's home and social circles.

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.

Other Broadway Open House cast members were tap dancer Ray Malone, accordionist Milton DeLugg, announcer Wayne Howell and vocalists Jane Harvey, Andy Roberts and David Street. The show's opening theme music was "The Beanbag Song" by DeLugg, Lester and Willie Stein. A second theme was the song "It's Almost Like Being in Love." DeLugg often played a song he wrote with Stein, "Orange Colored Sky", which became a hit for Nat King Cole.

MGM's top tap dancer at the time, Eleanor Powell, was cast as the princess opposite Nelson Eddy as cadet Dick Thorpe (Lieutenant Richard Fay in the stage musical). Frank Morgan reprised his Broadway role as King Fredrick (King Cyril in the stage version). Also appearing in the film were Ray Bolger (Bill Delroy), Edna May Oliver (the queen), Ilona Massey (Brenda), Tom Rutherford (Prince Paul), and Reginald Owen (Chancellor).Green, Stanley; Schmidt, Elaine.

With the death of her stepfather and a bleak future ahead, she left high school after completing two and half years, to seek jobs as a dancer. Her first $60-a-week job was as a tap dancer at the Lido Club in Montreal. Returning to New York, she found work as an actress in movie short subjects filmed by Educational Pictures at its Astoria, Queens NY, studio.Parish and Pitts 2003, p. 3.

A sense of indebtedness plagued Eduardo for most of his adult life. He felt chained to his parents by feelings of deep guilt and obligation. This posed a special problem when his dancing ambition eventually brought him to the United States of America to study under the tap dancing legend Bernie Howard. Eduardo's immigration to America alienated him from his parents, something he writes about in his auto-biography "Soul of a Tap Dancer".

Meseke entered and won the Miss Ohio competition twice. Her first title was won in 1931 at the age of 14; her young age kept her from the national pageant. Her second title in 1938 qualified her to represent Ohio in the national Miss America pageant. The 1938 pageant was the first year that talent became a scoring event in the competition which was serendipitous as Meseke was a talented tap dancer.

Gloria, a tap dancer, secretly hopes that a connection with Albert could be her way into show business. Mae sings "Swanee River" as Gloria tap-dances (usually depicted as her making a fool of herself). Albert gives Gloria a typing job. Rosie is furious, and fantasizes about violent ways to murder Albert ("One Hundred Ways Ballet"), but instead comes up with a better idea: she convinces Hugo to sabotage the last kiss.

Wilton was born in Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire, the daughter of Alice Travers, a tap dancer and former actress, and Clifford William Wilton, a businessman. She is a niece of actors Bill Travers and Linden Travers."What's On: Wicked role for Penelope means it's Women Beware Wilton; Theatre (Features)" Coventry Evening Telegraph (England) via Questia Online Library Her maternal grandparents owned theatres. She attended the Drama Centre London from 1965 to 1968.

Carl Ed received writing credit for both film adaptations of Harold Teen. Tap dancer Hal Le Roy had the title role in the 1934 movie musical Harold Teen. In the 1928 silent version, Harold was portrayed by Arthur Lake, best known for his many performances as Dagwood Bumstead. The Educational Screen commented: :The lovelorn hero of the comic strips is delightfully done by Arthur Lake who is the real Spirit of Seventeen.

Dunn was born in Oklahoma where he toured the state early on in his career as a tap dancer. However, his first training in the arts was in music, and he studied music composition and theory at the New England Conservatory. From 1955 to 1958 he studied dance at the Boston Conservatory of Music and taught percussion for the dancers of the conservatory. The Boston Conservatory is where Dunn first began working with Merce Cunningham.

Donald Gene Britton (17 August 1929 – 31 May 1983) was a principal dancer with the two Royal Ballet companies, the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet and the Sadler's Wells Ballet from 1945 to 1965. Donald Britton was born in London in 1929. He originally started as a tap dancer “wandering into ballet” at the age of six. His family were living over a ballet school and young Donald became fascinated with the activities downstairs.

See also Eleanor Bull (maiden name Eleanor Whitney) Eleanore Whitney (April 12, 1917 – November 1, 1983) was an American film actress and tap dancer. She was born on April 12, 1917 in Cleveland, Ohio. At the age of 10, she began studying dance under Bill Robinson and performed in vaudeville before being cast in a number of motion pictures, many of them musical-comedies. Whitney was married in 1939 to attorney Frederick Backer.

Sullivan, like many American entertainers, was pulled into the Cold War anticommunism of the late 1940s and 1950s. Tap dancer Paul Draper's scheduled January 1950 appearance on Toast of the Town met with opposition from Hester McCullough, an activist in the hunt for "subversives". Branding Draper a Communist Party "sympathizer", she demanded that Sullivan's lead sponsor, the Ford Motor Company, cancel Draper's appearance. Draper denied the charge, and appeared on the show as scheduled.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Grant began his training at the age of two at The Roxbury Center for the Performing Arts, and by the time he was eight years old, he has learned the "hoofin" style of tap from the master tap dancer Dianne Walker. Derick furthered his training in Los Angeles at Universal Dance Design Studio under the tutelage of Paul Kennedy. Derick spent three years with the Jazz Tap Ensemble touring the world.

By 1910, the family had moved north to Tampa, Florida. Another source says he was adopted when he was 11 years old and taken to live in Montgomery, Alabama. His mother wanted him to be a dentist, so Perry was adopted by a quack dentist, for whom he blacked boots before running away at age 12 to join a carnival. He earned his living for a few years as a singer and tap dancer.

The film stars Charlie Ruggles, Frank Morgan, and Ginger Rogers in one of her earliest film appearances. Making her first film appearance in an uncredited bit part is famed tap dancer Eleanor Powell, whose career in musicals would not take off for another five years. Powell was appearing on Broadway in a show entitled Follow Thru at the time, and a segment of the show was filmed for the movie. Both Rogers and Powell were still in their teens.

1903, who was also a singer and pianist who recorded for Bluebird Records, was his brother. Lofton was born with a limp, from which he derived his stage name, but he started his career as a tap dancer. He then began performing in the blues idiom known as boogie-woogie and went on to perform in Chicago, Illinois. The distinctive feature of his performances was his energetic stage presence; he would dance and whistle as well as sing.

Rolland Pierce "Rollie" Culver (October 29, 1908, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin - December 8, 1984, Culver City, California) was an American jazz drummer. Culver's first entry into professional entertainment was as a tap dancer, but he concentrated on drumming after 1930. He played in the territory band of Heinie Beau for most of the 1930s, then, in 1941, began playing with Red Nichols. He drummed behind Nichols for more than twenty years, working with him right up to Nichols's death.

Harland Dixon (November 4, 1885 - June 30, 1969) was a Canadian tap dancer known for his inventive and eccentric moves, being especially good at mimicry and use of a cane. He was especially successful in partnership with Jimmy Doyle with whom he appeared in a series of Broadway musicals, starting with Let George Do It in 1912. His signature move, which was imitated by others, was to keep his arms stiff by his side while twisting his shoulders.

Michelle Dorrance (born September 12, 1979) is an American tap dancer, performer, choreographer, teacher and director. Awarded a MacArthur "Genius Grant", she is the Founder and Artistic Director of Dorrance Dance. Dorrance is known for her creative ensemble choreography, rhythm tap style and ambitious collaborative projects with fellow tap dance choreographers and musicians. She is currently a 2017 Choreographic Fellow at New York City Center and an Artist in Residence at the American Tap Dance Foundation.

Between 1992 and 1995, Dunne toured regularly with musical groups The Chieftains and DeDannan. The former saw him begin a dance partnership with Jean Butler. The latter led to a memorable performance with Frankie Gavin and Stéphane Grappelli at Belfast's Ulster Hall, and then to a collaboration with American tap dancer Tarik Winston for the Irish Society St. Patrick's Day Ball in New York City in 1995. Six months later, Dunne would find himself working with both Butler and Winston in Riverdance.

As a young man, Chet O'Brien and his twin brother, Mortimer "Snooks" O'Brien, performed together in a vaudeville dance act. He was an ensemble performer in Jonica in 1930, a performer in Fine and Dandy (1930-1931) and a performer in Who's Who (1938). On September 1 of 1934, he married the tap dancer Marilyn Miller, her fourth and final marriage. The marriage does not seem to have been happy. Miller died on April 7, 1936 from complications after nasal surgery.

With Eleanor Powell in Broadway Melody of 1940 Astaire left RKO in 1939 to freelance and pursue new film opportunities, with mixed though generally successful outcomes. Throughout this period, Astaire continued to value the input of choreographic collaborators. Unlike the 1930s when he worked almost exclusively with Hermes Pan, he tapped the talents of other choreographers to innovate continually. His first post-Ginger dance partner was the redoubtable Eleanor Powell, considered the most exceptional female tap-dancer of her generation.

Bufalino left for New York City in 1955 to scour the jazz clubs. Shortly after moving, she began dancing at Dance Craft, a dance studio owned by the famous tap dancer, Honi Coles. At age 17, Coles took on Bufalino as his protégé. Bufalino became greatly inspired by Coles’ emphasis on melody and personality. She was eventually invited to perform with the Copasetics, which included tap legends such as Ernest "Brownie" Brown, Chuck Green, Jimmy Slyde and Howard “Sandman” Sims.

She is considered a pioneer in the resurgence of tap dancing. The Boston Herald has called her "America's First Lady of Tap." Prominent contemporary tap dancer Savion Glover and his peers affectionately call her “Aunt Dianne” in acknowledgment of her unique place as mentor, teacher and confidante. She is often seen in jazz clubs and festivals around the US. A memorable appearance was at the Rainbow Room in New York City with Ruth Brown, Grady Tate, Al McKibbon and Sir Roland Hanna.

In 1988, Camilo debuted on a major record label, Sony, with the release of Michel Camilo, which became a bestseller and held the top jazz album spot for ten consecutive weeks. Special guests joined in with Camilo, such as percussionist Sammy Figueroa and tap dancer Raul. Other bestselling albums followed and so did the accolades, including a Grammy and an Emmy. Camilo's collaborative 2000 album with flamenco guitarist Tomatito Spain won Best Latin Jazz Album in the first Latin Grammy Awards.

A scar remained on the left side of his neck. His first instruments were timpani, introduced to him by a Canadian soldier who taught him how to count and use the mallets. At fourteen, Kaye began to visit nightclubs where black musicians were welcome, such as The Shim Sham and The Nest; he won first prize in a song contest, a tour with the Billy Cotton band. During this tour, he met the African-American trombonist and tap dancer Ellis Jackson.

Lionel Blair (born Henry Lionel Ogus) is a British actor, choreographer, tap dancer and television presenter, whose entertainment career has spanned for five decades. He appeared in films such as The Limping Man, The World of Suzie Wong, The Beauty Jungle, A Hard Days Night and The Plank. In addition, he was one of the team captains on the game show Give Us a Clue from 1979 until the early 1990s. On Day 1, Lionel entered the house, handcuffed alongside Ollie Locke.

Moore was born Alexander Herman Moore in Dallas, Texas. At the age of three, his family moved to El Paso, Texas but returned to Dallas three years later for his father's job, who was a professional candy maker. Although his family did not own a piano Moore learned the instrument by watching others, including a female cousin, and practicing on instruments he found around town. He also learned to play harmonica as a boy, and was a tap dancer and whistler.

After graduation, Dugdale started working with Bill Evans at the Radiance Dance Theater. As a tap dancer, Dugdale had performed with Vancouver and Port Angeles Symphony Orchestras, as well as Rochester Philharmonic and Seattle Philharmonic Orchestras. In 2010, Alex had participated at the Disney All American College in Disneyland. In 2012, he performed with such bands as The Temptations, The Pointer Sisters and Four Tops as well as with John Legend, Dianne Walker, Chester Whitmore, Wynton Marsalis, David Meder, Najee and others.

Retrieved 17 July 2015. In 1936 he joined the Rabbit Foot Minstrels, an all-black revue that toured the South, as a tap dancer and comedian, sometimes part of a duo, Rufus and Johnny. He married Cornelia Lorene Wilson in 1940, at a service officiated by Rev. C. L. Franklin, the father of Aretha Franklin, and the couple settled in Memphis. Thomas worked a day job in the American Finishing Company textile bleaching plant, which he continued to do for over 20 years.

In the 1950, Dick Van Dyke performed a similar variation of the moonwalk and camel walk in his comedy routine called "Mailing A Letter On A Windy Corner". In 1955, it was recorded in a performance by tap dancer Bill Bailey. He performs a tap routine, and at the end, backslides into the wings. The French mime artist Marcel Marceau used it throughout his career (from the 1940s through the 1980s), as part of the drama of his mime routines.

Born Arlyle Arden Peterson Arden to a railway executive and a housewife, he grew up in St. Louis. By the age of nine he was already making money with dancing, he was considered a good tap dancer. Arden never married, but he was always surrounded by beautiful women, and by his own account couldn't be bothered with marriage, although he had been engaged in his younger years. Arden lived in California and Las Vegas for most of his adult life.

Roland Dupree was born on September 20, 1925 in Fall River, Massachusetts to Antone Furtado of Portuguese descent and Theresa Dupuis, of French Canadian descent. Dupree's first language was actually French but he learned English and ultimately became the family's breadwinner due to his all-American talent at a young age. He began his performing career as a tap dancer at ten years old in his hometown. His award-winning performances caused him to gain popularity on the local stages of Massachusetts.

Young was born as Angus Young on November 19, 1919, in North Shields, Northumberland, England, to Scottish parents. (In his later years he claimed he had been born in 1924.) His father was a mine worker and a tap dancer, and his mother was a singer. The family moved to Edinburgh, Scotland, when Young was a toddler and to West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, when he was six years old. Young came to love radio when bedridden as a child because of severe asthma.

"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.

By the late 1930s, Casimiro began headlining major bodabil productions in Manila. He made a name for himself as a tap dancer, often in top hat and tails, and was soon nicknamed as "The Fred Astaire of the Philippines". Casimiro also first appeared in film in 1938, when he was cast in Bayan at Pag-ibig, a production of Excelsior Pictures. Upon the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1941, local film production was halted, allowing bodabil to thrive as the main source of public entertainment.

Recognized as a leading exponent and innovator of jazz tap dance, Bufalino was a pioneer in putting tap dance on the concert stage and challenging the audience to sustain its attention on prolonged rhythmic composition. As a choreographer, Bufalino emphasized story telling, arrangement, choice of composition, and writing in her work. She believed that, “The tap dancer should be integrated with the music.” She was influential in demanding quality microphones, wood floors, lighting, and proper technical needs for tap dancers in both their training and performances.

Harriet "Quicksand" Browne (August 7, 1932 - September 1, 1997) was an American tap dancer, educator and choreographer who was best known for her innovation in sanding. Browne got a job dancing in the chorus but shortly afterwards got pregnant and had a son, which put a temporary stop to her dancing career. After the birth of her son, she resumed dancing as a soloist and as a member of the chorus in clubs around Chicago. During the 1950s, she toured with Cab Calloway's band.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Jones moved to Alabama, where he learned to play several instruments, including saxophone, piano, and drums. He worked as a drummer and tap-dancer at carnival shows until joining Walter Page's band, the Blue Devils in Oklahoma City in the late 1920s. He recorded with trumpeter Lloyd Hunter's Serenaders in 1931, and later joined pianist Count Basie's band in 1934. Jones, Basie, guitarist Freddie Green and bassist Walter Page were sometimes billed as an "All-American Rhythm section," an ideal team.

Paul St George’s father was an acrobatic tap dancer, his mother a costume designer. They were midway through a world tour of Kiss Me Kate when Paul was born – he started life in Norway, was weaned in Sweden, toddled in Finland but went to school in Bristol, England. St George studied at Bath Academy of Art in Corsham, Wiltshire. The college was situated right next to Lacock Abbey where Fox Talbot invented photography. Paul’s fascination with the relationships between images and different realities started there.

Eva Gustavson was born in Horten on the Oslo Fjord, in Norway. Her father, Oscar Gustavson, was a violinist-conductor at the National Theatre and later at Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra; her mother, Margit Gustavson (née Schwartz), played the piano and was an organist. Eva studied singing and dancing in her youth, becoming an accomplished tap-dancer, acrobat, and musician. She joined a traveling cabaret troupe in her late teens but was later advised to quit in order to pursue a career as an opera singer.

A double- click can be produced by the same movement of the hand with the addition of a bit of pressure to the bones to suppress the third click. Once these elemental triple and double figures have been mastered, they can be combined to create complex combinations of rhythmic sounds. The effect is further enhanced by the use of two pairs of bones, one in each hand. A skilled practitioner can produce a wide variety of percussive sounds reminiscent of those made by a tap dancer.

In 1980, Phoenix began to fully pursue his work as an actor, making his first appearance on a TV show called Fantasy singing with his sister Rain. In 1982, Phoenix was cast in the short-lived CBS television series, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, in which he starred as the youngest brother, Guthrie McFadden. Phoenix arrived at the auditions with his guitar and promptly burst into a convincing Elvis Presley impersonation, charming the show producer. By this age, Phoenix was also an accomplished tap dancer.

In 1929, she took dancing lessons at the Theatre Girls Club in Soho in London's West End and she later became a tap dancer and founder member of a quartet known as Four Brilliant Blondes. Franklin was a Tiller Girl, known for their high kicks, at the London Palladium. She toured in variety with the comedians Syd and Max Harrison and on the Gracie Fields Show, and performed with another dance group, The Three Girlies, before making a gradual switch to straight dramatic roles.

Peter P. Peters (Fred Astaire), an American ballet dancer billed as "Petrov", dances for a ballet company in Paris owned by the bumbling Jeffrey Baird (Edward Everett Horton). Peters secretly wants to blend classical ballet with modern jazz dancing, and when he sees a photo of famous tap dancer Linda Keene (Ginger Rogers), he falls in love with her. He contrives to meet her, but she is less than impressed. They meet again on an ocean liner traveling back to New York, and Linda warms to Petrov.

Francks, Lenny Breau, and Eon Henstridge were joined on stage by tap dancer Joey Hollingsworth. The evening was recorded live by Breau's manager, George B. Sukornyk, but wasn't released until 2004 under the name At the Purple Onion (Art of Life, 2004). A National Film Board documentary called Toronto Jazz included rehearsals and performances by Three and two other groups. Francks and Breau briefly reprised Three in early 1968 in Toronto with bassist Dave Young in place of Eon Henstridge, who had died the year before.

She left for greener pastures and arrived in Alaska in 1899. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police held a tight leash on prospective miners and various hangers-on trying to get to the Yukon and find fortunes in gold. Refused entry by a Mountie, she is reputed to have donned a boy's outfit and jumped on a boat headed for the Yukon. First working as a tap-dancer in Whitehorse, Rockwell found her stride in Dawson City as a member of the Savoy Theatrical Company.

LaRedd was a popular night time performer at the Cotton Club, located in the Theatre District of New York. The Cotton Club did not allow African American patrons, but it featured a number of African American performers; LaRedd was one featured performer during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. LaRedd performed both as a singer and as an athletic, and rhythmic tap dancer. Cora LaRedd's open sexuality influenced her unique performance style. In the fall of 1930 LaRedd performed in “Brown Sugar – Sweet but Unrefined”.

After his discharge in 1946, Hirshman moved back to Philadelphia, eventually joining the faculty at the highly respected Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, a free art school with evening and Saturday classes (now administered by the Philadelphia Museum of Art). He was appointed faculty director in 1960, serving until his retirement in 1977. There are very few known pieces created by Hirshman from 1950 through 1961. But in 1962, he produced Tap Dancer, his first construction featuring an archetype rather than a public figure.

I told Bobby I was a tap dancer and that I wanted to tap dance to this music. He asked me if I wanted to tap dance to Cuban music, or tap dance Cuban music. Then he reached for the claves,”—the rhythmic base of Afro-Cuban music—“and said, ‘You have to play claves while you dance;’” a feat that sounds easier on paper than in reality. Pollak practiced doing just that, drawing on his drummer's ability to walk and chew gum at the same time.

Max Washington (Gregory Hines), just released from prison after serving time for burglary, is a talented tap dancer. His late father owned a dance studio that is now run by Little Mo (Sammy Davis Jr.), whose daughter Amy Simms (Suzzanne Douglas) gives lessons to children. Back on the streets, Max isn't interested in dancing again but he is interested in seeing Amy, his former girlfriend. A local gangster, Nicky, doesn't care for Max personally but does try to recruit him to take part in a robbery.

Other Broadway shows included The Day Before Spring, which opened on November 22, 1945, at the National Theatre, where it ran for 167 performances, and the national company of Call Me Mister, which included Bob Fosse, Carl Reiner, and Buddy Hackett in the cast. Wayne was the ballet dancer and Bob Fosse the tap dancer in this production. The show ran 15 months in venues all over the country. Lamb was in the Pre-Broadway tryout of Bonanza Bound, choreographed by Jack Cole and included Gwen Verdon in the chorus with Lamb.

Originally called the American Tap Dance Orchestra (ATDO), the American Tap Dance Foundation was founded in 1986 by tap dancers Brenda Bufalino, Tony Waag, and Charles "Honi" Coles. Bufalino began working with Coles in 1973 when Bufalino produced the documentary, "Great Feats of Feet: Portraits Of the Jazz Tap Dancer" featuring Coles and The Copasetics. ATDO's first major engagement was on July 4, 1986, at the Statue of Liberty Festival in Battery Park in lower New York City. For the next 15 years, American Tap Dance Orchestra toured the U.S. and Europe.

After the end of the war, in the early 1920s, he worked at several jobs, including as a bus driver, before setting up his own orchestra, the London Savannah Band, in 1924. At first a conventional dance band, the London Savannah Band gradually tended towards music hall/vaudeville entertainment, introducing visual and verbal humour in between songs. Famous musicians who played in Billy Cotton's band during the 1920s and 1930s included Arthur Rosebery, Syd Lipton and Nat Gonella. The band was also noted for their African American trombonist and tap dancer, Ellis Jackson.

Ann Pennington (December 23, 1893 – November 4, 1971) was an actress, dancer, and singer who starred on Broadway in the 1910s and 1920s, notably in the Ziegfeld Follies and George White's Scandals. She became famous for what was, at the time, called a "Shake and Quiver Dancer", and was noted for her variation of the "Black Bottom". She also was noted as an accomplished tap dancer. Ray Henderson wrote the extant version of "Black Bottom" for Ann – she had already been performing the popular version of the dance for some time.

Rosemary Magrill (stage name Rose Marie Magrill; 1924Age cited as 14 when the Miss Florida final took place, which was September 1939, 16 in March 1941 and 82 in November 2006, making her date of birth between September and November 1924. (sources: and and ) – 19 March 2016) was Miss Florida in 1939. At the time she was crowned, she was underage. She went on to place as a semi- finalist in Miss America and became widely known as a "tap dancer extraordinary" with shows in a number of famous venues including Broadway.

Billy Lee (William Lee Schlensker) (March 12, 1929 – November 17, 1989) was a child actor who appeared in many films from the mid-1930s through the early 1940s. He is probably best remembered for his performance in The Biscuit Eater. Lee's first role was in the Our Gang comedy short Mike Fright as a tap dancer in a sailor suit. He was signed under contract with Paramount Pictures from 1934 to 1941 and his first significant role was in Wagon Wheels when he was just four years old.

Backbeat: Earl Palmer's Story is the biography of pioneer rock and roll drummer Earl Palmer. The book is by music journalist Tony Scherman with a foreword by Wynton Marsalis. More than half the text is directly quoted from Palmer, making the book as much an autobiography as it is a biography. The story begins with Palmer as a four-year-old vaudeville tap dancer and continues with the story of New Orleans music and the emergence of a strong rock and roll drumming style featuring the back beat.

LeRoy Myers (November 10, 1919 – April 26, 2004) was an African American tap dancer and manager of the Copasetics. He was born in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and learned to tap dance on the street corners of Philadelphia. When Bill "Bojangles" Robinson died in 1949, LeRoy Myers and some close friends were inspired to form the Copasetics, named after Bill Robinsons' favorite expression, "Everything is Copasetic." The Copasetics was a fraternity of black entertainers that were influential in the revival of tap dancing in the late 1970s through the 1980s.

Sledge was born the third of five daughters in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Edwin Sledge (1923–1996), a tap dancer, and his actress wife, Florez (née Williams; 1928–2007). Described as a warm extrovert, Sledge attended Olney High School; graduating in 1974. Sledge majored in communications while in college and began acting in school productions at Temple University.Ebony Magazine – February 1980Chicago Tribune – The Living Arts – July 11, 1976Joni Sledge Acting During her sophomore year at Temple, Sledge directed her first stage- play "Wild Flower" written by Hazel Bright and produced by Ron Alexander.

The club also featured novelty acts, such as tap dancer Peg Leg Bates, whose "Jet Plane" finale, in which he leaped over the stage, landed on his wooden leg, and then executed a series of backward hops accompanied by trumpet blasts from the band, saw his leg puncture the wooden stage floor in the early 1940s. It took half an hour to pull him out. After that, the stage floor was reinforced with metal sheeting. Cholly Atkins and Honi Coles directed a revue at the Paradise in the summer of 1941.

Early in his career, Fong was a Las Vegas tap dancer who danced with the Rat Pack - Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Junior, and Dean Martin. Fong’s photograph is the entrance photograph at the MGM Grand Hotel. A controversy arose in the 1960s when Fong, a Chinese American, was on stage dancing with line of Caucasian women, mixing races in a city that catered to tourists from the segregated south. The women were then dressed in Asian costumes and had their faces and eyes painted to appear Oriental, so as to avoid controversy.

Slap-style bass is sometimes used in bluegrass bass playing. When bluegrass bass players slap the string by pulling it until it hits the fingerboard or hit the strings against the fingerboard, it adds the high- pitched percussive "clack" or "slap" sound to the low-pitched bass notes, sounding much like the clacks of a tap dancer. Slapping is a subject of minor controversy in the bluegrass scene. Even slapping experts such as Mike Bub say, "Don't slap on every gig", or in songs where it is not appropriate.

Curtis's paternal grandmother, Mabel Curtis (née Ford; 1888–1982), the third wife (of three) of her paternal grandfather, Jack Curtis (né Jacob Zinn; born 1880), was a popular tap dancer in a quartet of four sisters known then as The Four Fords. Curtis's father's first wife, Anna Chandler (1879–1957), was a widely known vaudeville actress and mezzo-soprano. Curtis's cousin, Roy Benson (January 17, 1914 – December 6, 1977) was a stage magician born in Courbevoie in France. Just like the rest of the family Benson was also an accomplished musician.

Ray McDonald (June 27, 1921 - February 20, 1959) was a tap dancer who started his career as a vaudeville act with his older sister Grace McDonald, before being cast in a hit Broadway show, and then in films. He had a starring role in the films Down in San Diego and Born to Sing, some leading roles in other films, as well as lesser roles including in uncredited dance sequences. McDonald's Broadway credits include Park Avenue (1946), Winged Victory (1943), Crazy With the Heat (1941), and Babes in Arms (1937).

Derick K. Grant (born May 19, 1973) is an African-American tap dancer and choreographer. He came to prominence in 1996, as an original company member and Dance Captain in the George C. Wolfe-produced musical Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk at both The Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival and on Broadway. Derick recreated Savion Glover's choreography and starred in the role of 'da beat for the first National Tour. He works all around the world for different tap shows and events such as "Tap To You".

The youngest of four children, Runciman was born in Upper Hutt, New Zealand. He began appearing in commercials at the age of 5 and eventually became involved in film and television work while attending St. Patrick's College. A trained singer and tap dancer, he also performed voice over and still photographic work. In 1996, he received his television acting debut appearing in a minor role on the television adaptation of The Ship of Adventure as part of The Enid Blyton Adventure Series and Mirror, Mirror II a year later.

He was unemployed and decided to write his own book about the history of Suriname and slavery called, Wij slaven van Suriname (We Slaves of Suriname) which was published in a censored form in 1934. De Kom participated in demonstrations for the unemployed, traveled abroad with a group as a tap dancer, and was drafted for Werkverschaffing (unemployment relief work), a program similar to the American WPA, in 1939. He gave lectures for leftist groups, mainly communists, about colonialism and racial discrimination. After the German invasion in 1940, his writings were banned.

While The Birth of a Nation glorified white supremacy and the KKK, Jolson chose to star in The Jazz Singer, which defied racial bigotry by introducing black musicians to audiences worldwide. While growing up, Jolson had many black friends, including Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, who became a prominent tap dancer. As early as 1911, at the age of 25, Jolson was noted for fighting discrimination on Broadway and later in his movies. In 1924, he promoted the play Appearances by Garland Anderson which became the first production with an all-black cast produced on Broadway.

"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.

Howard "Sandman" Sims (January 24, 1917 – May 20, 2003) was an African- American tap dancer who began his career in vaudeville. He was skilled in a style of dancing that he performed in a wooden sandbox of his own construction, and acquired his nickname from the sand he sprinkled to alter and amplify the sound of his dance steps. "They called the board my Stradivarius," Sims said of his sandbox. From the 1950s to the year 2000, Sims was a regular attraction—a "fixture"—at Harlem's noted Apollo Theater, comedically ushering failed acts offstage with a hook, broom or other prop.

As a child, Jones appeared as a featured tap dancer on The Kiddie Show on the Philadelphia radio Station WIP. He was in the US Army during World War II. In 1947 he became the house drummer at Café Society in New York City, where he played with the leading bebop players of the day. Among them, the most important influence on Jones was Tadd Dameron. Jones toured and recorded with Miles Davis Quintet from 1955 to 1958—a band that became known as "The Quintet" (along with Red Garland on piano, John Coltrane on sax, and Paul Chambers on bass).

Born in Richmond, Virginia, Dandridge began performing in 1918 as a pianist in a revue entitled The Drake and Walker Show. In 1930, he worked as accompanist for tap dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, including appearances in the musical Brown Buddies. In February 1931, Dandridge appeared in the cast of the musical revue Heatin' Up Harlem, starring Adelaide Hall at the Lafayette Theatre in Harlem. In the 1932 American film Harlem Is Heaven, Dandridge, on the piano and reciting lyrics in a "speak set", accompanies Robinson as the dancer sings "Is You Is Or Is You Ain't".

In his commencement address, Donen stated that he thought he was unique in being the first tap dancer to be a doctor and then tap danced for the graduates. At around the same time Donen taught a seminar on film musicals at the Sundance Institute at the request of Robert Redford. In 1993, Donen was preparing to produce and direct a movie musical adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde starring Michael Jackson. After allegations that Jackson had molested young boys at his Neverland Ranch became a tabloid scandal, the project was abandoned.

Dusty Fletcher plays a comic, tap dancer and bad magician. While practicing his routine for that evening's variety show, he accidentally vanishes Lola (Nellie Hill), the girlfriend of the show's manager Baltimore Dumdone (George Wiltshire). She was wearing a thousand-dollar string of pearls and it seems most likely that criminality is afoot. Dusty's slapstick antics take up a large portion of the film's first act, with some Keystone Cops type schtick thrown in when four police officers (Fredie Robinson, William Campbell, Edgar Martin and Sidney Easton) begin chasing Dusty in and out of his disappearance- cabinet.

Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Lee got his start in show business in the 1920s as a tap dancer in the chorus of the Brodrick-Felsen & Co. vaudeville act, traveling on the Keith Orpheum circuit. Later, he worked as a comic of the "baggy pants" variety on stage, becoming an expert at the slapstick, comic dancing and rapid-fire jokes of the burlesque style. During the 1940s, he was heard on Drene Time and other radio programs. Easily recognized by his trademark lisp and high-energy antics, his signature costume was a loud plaid suit with baggy checkered pants and an undersized hat.

She was out of work for at least several weeks during her recovery. In 1933 she returned to her native New Orleans to rise to such renown in the local jazz scene that she gained the title "the Sweetheart of New Orleans." Pianist Joe Robichaux hired her to lead his band, the New Orleans Rhythm Boys, a group consisting at times of up to fifteen members, including three women: Briscoe, Joan Lunceford (singer), and Ann Cooper (trumpet). Dressed in what became her trademark tuxedo, Briscoe worked as a tap dancer, entertaining the crowd in front of Robichaux's band during and between musical sets.

Marilyn Miller (born Mary Ellen Reynolds; September 1, 1898 – April 7, 1936) was one of the most popular Broadway musical stars of the 1920s and early 1930s. She was an accomplished tap dancer, singer and actress, and it was the combination of these talents that endeared her to audiences. On stage, she usually played rags-to-riches Cinderella characters who lived happily ever after. Her enormous popularity and famed image were in distinct contrast to her personal life, which was marred by disappointment, tragedy, frequent illness, and ultimately her sudden death due to complications of nasal surgery at age 37.

The music video was directed by Paul Hunter, and included several dialog sequences featuring Smith, Kool Moe Dee, Dru Hill and guest appearance by Stevie Wonder, intercut with clips from the film, featuring the film's characters. Hayek also appears as her character Rita Escobar in the video's dialog sequences, as does an actor resembling Branagh and his character of Dr. Loveless. Fellow pop star Enrique Iglesias also appeared in the video playing a Prince. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air co-star and tap dancer Alfonso Ribeiro appeared in the music video as one of the dancers.

Lawrence "Jack" Imel (June 9, 1932 – April 30, 2017) was an American musician, dancer, singer, and television producer who is best known for his work on The Lawrence Welk Show. A tap dancer since the age of four, Imel later took up playing the marimba. He appeared in clubs and concerts in and around his hometown right through elementary and high school. Later, with the advent of the Korean War, Imel joined the U.S. Navy and considered a career as a sailor, but towards the end of his tour of duty he was stationed in San Diego.

Born into a show- business family in New Orleans and raised in the Tremé district, Palmer started his career at five as a tap dancer, joining his mother and aunt on the black vaudeville circuit in its twilight and touring the country extensively with Ida Cox's Darktown Scandals Review. His father is thought to have been the local pianist and bandleader Walter "Fats" Pichon. Palmer was 12 when he headlined a floor show at the Rhythm Club in New Orleans, "a very beautiful spot where one can enjoy a floor show, headed by Alvin Howey and Little Earl Palmer". Barnes, Walter.

The other principal dancers in the cast included Frederic Franklin and Casimir Kokitch. Though de Mille herself was not entirely pleased with the premiere, it was attended by Rodgers and Hammerstein, who approached de Mille afterward to request that she choreograph their upcoming production of Oklahoma!. The ballet makes use of riding movements that de Mille devised with the assistance of Peggy van Praagh, for a recital in London by Peggy van Praagh and Hugh Laing in 1938. De Mille also made use of such vernacular forms as a square dance and a cadenza for a tap dancer.

After them, Guster was joined by Peter Frampton and worked on material from Guster's new album Ganging up the Sun. Martin Sexton also joined them for a version of Frampton's "Do You Feel Like We Do." Banjoist Bela Fleck led his band, the Flecktones, on their first performance at a Jammys, welcoming jazz legend McCoy Tyner and tap dancer Savion Glover to join them. Next, Dweezil Zappa debuted his band Zappa Plays Zappa. Dweezil performed many tunes from his father's catalog and was joined by Mickey Hart, Chick Corea, and Jake Cinninger during their set, then MOE.

Karim Dulé Hill (; born May 3, 1975)"Dule Hill [biography]," Performing ARts Databases, Library of Congress. is an American actor and tap dancer. He played personal presidential aide and Deputy Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff, Charlie Young, on the NBC drama television series The West Wing, for which he received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, and pharmaceutical salesman-private detective Burton "Gus" Guster on the USA Network television comedy-drama Psych. He also had minor roles in the movies The Guardian, Holes and She's All That and a recurring role on Ballers.

In 1916, Robinson was a successful vaudeville performer and considered the finest tap dancer of his generation. At the peak of his career, he was the highest paid Black entertainer, but for all the joy he gave others, his life was anything but happy, there was a great deal of tragedy in himself. He died broke and penniless. When the American Civil War was still a living memory, segregation in public facilities was the rule, rather than the exception, and all sorts of strange and arbitrary regulations were aimed at keeping people of color in a separate and inferior position.

Buffalo '66 is a 1998 American crime comedy-drama film written and directed by Vincent Gallo, starring Gallo, Christina Ricci, Ben Gazzara and Anjelica Huston. The plot revolves around Billy Brown (Gallo), a man who kidnaps a young tap dancer named Layla (Ricci) and forces her to pretend to be his wife to impress his parents (Gazzara and Huston) after he gets released from prison. The film was generally well-received; Empire listed it as the 36th- greatest independent film ever made. It was filmed in and around Gallo's hometown of Buffalo, New York, in winter.

Having just served five years in prison, Billy Brown (Vincent Gallo) returns home to Buffalo, New York and is preparing to meet with his parents, who don't know he's been in prison. He kidnaps Layla (Christina Ricci), a tap dancer, and forces her to pretend to be his wife to his parents. He gives her the name "Wendy Balsam." When they meet with Billy's parents (Ben Gazzara and Anjelica Huston), Layla sees that the relationship between them is very dysfunctional, and sees Billy's own mother forgetting he has a chocolate allergy and his father behaves inappropriately towards her.

Feinstein was born in Columbus, Ohio, the son of Florence Mazie (née Cohen), an amateur tap dancer, and Edward Feinstein, a sales executive for the Sara Lee Corporation and a former amateur singer. He is of Jewish descent. At the age of five, he studied piano for a couple of months until his teacher became angered that he was not reading the sheet music she gave him, since he was more comfortable playing by ear. As his mother saw no problem with her son's method, she took him out of lessons and allowed him to enjoy music his own way.

Howard Eugene "Stretch" Johnson (30 January 1915 – 28 May 2000) was a tap dancer and social activist. In 1936, he joined his brother Bobby and his sister, Winnie, one of the featured dancers at the Cotton Club, to form an act called the Three Johnsons, which was featured in New Faces of 1936 and the Duke Ellington Revue of 1937 at the Apollo Theater. He later acted in a Harlem production of Clifford Odets play Waiting for Lefty. A member of the N.A.A.C.P. since he was 15, he served in the 92nd 'Buffalo' Division in World War II, winning two Purple Hearts.

The song was written by Neil Innes - who won an Ivor Novello Award in 1968 for the song - and produced by Paul McCartney and Gus Dudgeon under the pseudonym "Apollo C. Vermouth". The B-side was written by Vivian Stanshall. A well-known staging of the song involves Innes performing solo while a female tap dancer performs an enthusiastic but apparently under-rehearsed routine around him. This skit originally appeared in a 1975 edition of Rutland Weekend Television, with Lyn Ashley as the dancer, and was more famously revived in the 1982 film Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl with Carol Cleveland taking over the role.

Wierbos also maintains a solo career. He has a running project under the name Wollo's World, where he brings together different artistic combinations, ranging from duos with tap-dancer Marije Nie and bassist Wilbert de Joode to a quartet with Misha Mengelberg, Mats Gustafsson and Wilbert de Joode. Wolter Wierbos can be heard on more than 100 CDs and LPs. He has released two solo CDs: X Caliber (ICP 032, 1995), "a round-trip tour of his horn, from buzzing mute mutations, grizzly blurts and purring multiphonics to radiant melodies", and Wierbos (DATA 824), a reissue of his 1982 solo LP with an additional track.

Guitar, Drums 'n' Bass is one of the first of Bailey's genre experiments of the mid-late 1990s, marking his first time exploring disparate genres since his 1980 book Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice, in which Bailey explored the usage of improvisation in jazz, flamenco and Indian classical music. Bailey biographer Ben Watson described Bailey's "unlikely" collaborations with D.J. Ninj and other musicians such as Bill Laswell, tap dancer Will Gaines, and with funk musicians Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Calvin Weston on the album Mirakle (2000), as "consummate examples" of perverse music, a style described by Bailey collaborator Simon H. Fell in 2000 to refer to his ever-changing musical style.

So You Think You Can Dance, an American dance competition show, returned for its twelfth season, titled So You Think You Can Dance: Stage Vs. Street, on Monday, June 1, 2015. Seventeen episodes were broadcast on the Fox Network, including episode nine on Tuesday, July 21, 2015, which was a special celebrating the tenth anniversary of the show titled "A Decade of Dance Special Edition". The sixteen regular episodes aired each week on Mondays, rather than Wednesdays as it had been in recent previous seasons. On September 14, 2015, Gaby Diaz won the competition and made history by becoming the first tap dancer to win the title.

They won popular acclaim with the theater crowd on both sides of the Atlantic in shows such as Jerome Kern's The Bunch and Judy (1922), George and Ira Gershwin's Lady, Be Good (1924), and Funny Face (1927) and later in The Band Wagon (1931). Astaire's tap dancing was recognized by then as among the best. For example, Robert Benchley wrote in 1930, "I don't think that I will plunge the nation into war by stating that Fred is the greatest tap-dancer in the world." Whilst in London, Fred studied piano at the Guildhall School of Music alongside his friend and colleague Noël Coward.

Yet her favorite costar was the great African American tap dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, with whom she appeared in four films, beginning with The Little Colonel (1935), in which they performed the famous staircase dance.Kasson, American National Biography (2015) Biographer Anne Edwards wrote about the tone and tenor of Shirley Temple films: :This was mid-Depression, and schemes proliferated for the care of the needy and the regeneration of the fallen. But they all required endless paperwork and demeaning, hours-long queues, at the end of which an exhausted, nettled social worker dealt with each person as a faceless number. Shirley offered a natural solution: to open one's heart.

"Sophie Spanked", TIME July 24, 1939 In 1963 then-AGVA president Joey Adams helped to finance and organize a variety show in Birmingham, Alabama, to raise funds for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Sharing the stage with Martin Luther King, Jr. were Ray Charles, Nina Simone, Joe Louis, Johnny Mathis, James Baldwin and The Shirelles. In 1958-59, the actress, singer and tap dancer Penny Singleton became the first woman elected president of an AFL-CIO union.Singleton biography She was active in supporting the 1967 strike of the AGVA-represented Rockettes against Radio City Music Hall"Accord is reached in Rockettes strike"; The New York Times, Oct.

Auditions for season 2 took place from April to May, 2009 in Vancouver, Edmonton, Saint John, Toronto and Montreal. Leah Miller, Jean- Marc Généreux and Tré Armstrong returned for season 2 which premiered August 11, 2009. Due to the US show airing a fall season, CTV programmed the Canadian version on their network while the US version aired on A. The finale was held October 25, 2009. Contemporary dancer Tara-Jean Popowich of Lethbridge, Alberta was declared the winner, with ballroom dancer Vincent Desjardins of Trois-Rivières, Québec as runner-up, jazz dancer Jayme-Rae Dailey of Montreal in third, and tap dancer Everett Smith of Glen Morris, Ontario in fourth.

Castle was born in Scholes, near Holmfirth, West Riding of Yorkshire. The son of a railwayman, he was a tap dancer from an early age and trained at Nora Bray's school of dance with Audrey Spencer who later ran a big dance school, and after leaving Holme Valley Grammar School (now Honley High School) he started his career as an entertainer in an amateur concert party. As a young performer in the 1950s, he lived in Cleveleys near Blackpool and appeared there at the local Queen's Theatre, turning professional in 1953 as a stooge for Jimmy Clitheroe and Jimmy James. By 1958, he was appearing at the Royal Variety Show.

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.

The music video, directed by Samuel Bayer, stars Heather DeLoach as the "Bee Girl" — a young tap dancer wearing a homemade bee costume and large glasses, modeled after the Blind Melon album cover: a family picture of Georgia Graham, younger sister of drummer Glen Graham. The Bee Girl's story is intercut with footage of Blind Melon performing in a field against a clear blue sky. It opens on the girl's tap routine; the audience responds with mocking laughter, and the girl runs off stage in tears. As the song plays, she wanders through Los Angeles, stopping to perform her dance for whoever will watch, but still feels alone.

The last of the rooms, Science, featured a large machine that Dreamfinder was operating that took a closer look at the workings of nature such as the growth of plants, the formation of crystals from minerals and looking into space. At the end, Dreamfinder told Figment and the audience that Imagination is the key to unlocking the hidden wonders of the world. The ride then entered the final show scene. As the riders' pictures were taken, they saw Figment surrounded by several movie screens of him being a scientist, a mountain climber, a pirate, a superhero, a tap dancer, a ship captain, a cowboy and an athlete.

His homosexuality was considered an open secret in some Washington circles. Petrelis' press release stated, "Pete Williams, an openly closeted gay man, hypocritically remains silent in his job as Pentagon spokesman, while the Department of Defense continues its irrational policy of ejecting thousands of gays and lesbians from the armed services." At the press conference, Petrelis unfurled a poster bearing an image of Williams that read: PETE WILLIAMS ABSOLUTELY QUEER: PENTAGON SPOKESPERSON, TAP DANCER, CONSUMMATE QUEER. No one reported the story, but Petrelis returned to the Pentagon on August 6, 1991, to intercept reporters as they entered the building for a regularly scheduled Tuesday morning briefing.

During that time, he continued to give remarkable shows, with such guest stars as Buster Keaton, Grock, Achille Zavatta, Charlie Rivel, the famous French comedian Fernand Raynaud, and even the tap-dancer Harold Nicholas. The Cirque Medrano gave its last performance on January 7, 1963 in front of a house packed with the Tout-Paris and a crowd of disconsolate Parisians, habitués, circus fans, and friends from the neighborhood. The Bougliones revived the circus for a couple of seasons under the name Cirque de Montmartre, but the magic was gone. Although their shows were commendable, they were mostly a replica of what could be seen at the Cirque d'Hiver.

Sublett performed the role occasionally for the next two decades. In 1963, in a studio recording of Porgy and Bess featuring Leontyne Price and William Warfield, he performed Sportin' Life's two main arias from the opera, "It Ain't Necessarily So" and "There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York". In 1920 he gave lessons in tap dancing to Fred Astaire, who considered Sublett the finest tap dancer of his generation. In the number "Bojangles of Harlem" from Swing Time (1936) Astaire dresses in blackface as the Sportin' Life character and dances in the style of Sublett while ostensibly paying tribute to Bill Robinson.

The act was very popular in Australia throughout the 1960s with their television variety show and numerous concert appearances, however upon their arrival back to the United States to capitalize on their growing fame, the act broke up as Daly chose to go into television production work. By 1969, Delo was now in Los Angeles moving on with his career; making guest TV appearances on shows such as Mission: Impossible and Here's Lucy. His introduction to Lawrence Welk came from Arthur Duncan, the show's featured tap dancer who had known Delo from their days in Australia. Upon Duncan's recommendation, the maestro invited him on the show as a guest star, singing the Hawaiian Wedding Song.

Tap dancers would perform technical variations, while singers and musicians would shuffle along as they were able. For example, in 1931 flash dance act The Three Little Words would close their show at Connie's Inn with the Shim Sham, and invite everyone to join in, "and the whole club would join us, including the waiters. For awhile people were doing the Shim Sham up and down Seventh Avenue all night long," according to Joe Jones. According to tap dancer Howard “Stretch” Johnson the word "Shim" was a contraction of the term "she-him", a reference to the fact that the female chorus line dancers at the 101 Ranch were played by men.

Muter has also worked with many other notable artists including Grammy Winner's Shaun Martin, Robert 'Sput' Searight, Larnell Lewis and Mark Lettieri of Snarky Puppy as well as Snarky Puppy's horn section. Muter has also played with James Francies (keyboardist with The Roots), tap dancer Sarah Reich from Postmodern Jukebox and Prince's last bassist MonoNeon (Dywane Thomas Jr.). Muter's solo album "Off Script" produced by Mike Mineo quickly gained attention by the press and The New Times quoted that Muter "has the potential to do for the tuba what Louis Armstrong did to the trumpet." "Off Script" was also nominated for the Roger Bobo Excellence in Recording Award by the International Tuba Euphonium Association.

Stegall attended Miami University, where he was a four-year football letterman from 1988 to 1991. Stegall finished with 106 receptions for 1,581 yards, and eight touchdowns as a wide receiver. Because of his speed (he competed on Miami's track and field team where he holds the 3rd fastest 100 meter dash, 10.44 seconds, and 5th fastest 200 meter dash, 21.24 seconds) he was also a dynamic tap dancer, and kick returner, setting a career record of 1,377 kick return yards which lasted until 2002, beaten by defensive back Milt Bowen, who like Stegall signed with the Cincinnati Bengals after college. All of these accomplishments garnered Stegall an honorable mention all-Mid-American Conference selection as a junior.

From July to August 2010 Suzanne had a starring role in the Internationally acclaimed stage show, Stepping Out by Richard Harris. The show enjoyed a sell out tour of NZ, travelling from Auckland to the major provincial cities. Performing as Vera Andrews, Suzanne received great praise and reviews from critics for her timing, superb line delivery and showed her new skills as a Tap dancer. She again showed her ability to adapt, having now achieved at the highest level in the entertainment industry in NZ. In 2011 Suzanne appeared in another Internationally acclaimed stage show "Dirty Dusting" which also achieved tremendous reviews and sold out through the country in more than 20 cities.

Having trained at the Arts Educational School, Tring, Hertfordshire (now Tring Park School for the Performing Arts), she made her debut in The Nutcracker at the Royal Festival Hall in London in 1962. She became a member of the corps de ballet at the Royal Festival Ballet at the age of 12 with the intention of becoming a ballerina, however, her plans were disrupted when she was forced to miss a year after contracting pneumonia aged 15. Her West End debut came at the age of 16, playing the part of a rollerskating tap dancer in Forget Me Not Lane. Her first musical appearance in the West End was in Bubbling Brown Sugar.

John Schneider is an actor, theatre director, playwright, and musician based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is currently the Arts and Entertainment Editor for the Shepherd Express and a theatre arts professor at Marquette University.. He was one of the founding members of Theatre X, has appeared in hundreds of the group's productions since 1969, and was its Artistic Director and resident playwright until the group disbanded in 2004. His plays, produced by Theatre X and other companies around the world, include Acts of Kindness, An Interest in Strangers, and numerous literary adaptations. Since 1988, Schneider has also performed as a cabaret singer, tap dancer, and leader of the John Schneider Orchestra, a touring jazz/swing group.

There were multiple parades that took place throughout the nation, many of these parades included all black regiments, including the 370th from Illinois. Then in the 1920s and 1930s, the 369th was a regular presence on Harlem's streets, each year marching through the neighborhood from their armory to catch a train to their annual summer camp, and then back through the neighborhood on their return two weeks later. Tap dancer and actor Bill Robinson was claimed to have been also the drum major for the regimental band during the homecoming parade on Fifth Avenue upon the 369th's return from overseas.Added 30 July 2008, by the Director of the National Guard Educational Foundation.

The revue was first presented at the Chatelet Theatre in Paris in 1985 which included Sandra Reaves-Phillips. The Broadway production opened on January 26, 1989 at the Minskoff TheatreRich, Frank."Review/Theater; Black Blues and Jazz"The New York Times, January 27, 1989 and closed on January 20, 1991 after 829 performances and 32 previews. Directed by Orezzoli and Segovia and choreographed by Henry LeTang, Cholly Atkins, Frankie Manning, and Fayard Nicholas the cast of forty-one singers, dancers, and musicians included Ruth Brown, Linda Hopkins, Carrie Smith, Savion Glover, Claude Williams, Roland Hanna, Grady Tate, Jimmy Slyde, Bill Easley, Jimmy "Preacher" Robins, Lon Chaney (the jazz tap dancer, not the actor) and Bunny Briggs.

So You Think You Can Dance, a televised American dance competition, began broadcast of its tenth season on May 14, 2013. It airs on the FOX Television Network and was hosted by Cat Deeley and featured returning permanent judges Nigel Lythgoe, who also serves as one of the show's executive producers, and Mary Murphy. The show featured many of the format changes instituted in the previous season, including notably a single episode per week/voting round (seasons two through eight featured two episodes per week). It was also the first season in the show's history that a tap dancer not only made it past the third week of competition, but made the finale.

In 1990, Rusty's book TAP! The Greatest Tap Dance Stars and Their Stories, 1900–1955, was published in hardcover by William Morrow Press and in In March 1995, was reissued in soft cover by Da Capo Press. Actor and tap dancer Gregory Hines wrote the foreword to the book, for which she interviewed 30 tap-dance luminaries, including Ann Miller, Shirley Temple and Donald O'Connor. She has contributed to the Smithsonian Institution's Jazz Oral History project, along with the Encyclopædia Britannica, the Oxford Encyclopedia of Dance, The American National Biography, the Great Danish Encyclopedia, the jazz history Jazz: The First Century, published by William Morrow and Company, and Discover Jazz, published by Pearson.

Brenda Bufalino after a performance with The Jefferson Dancers Brenda Bufalino (born September 7, 1937) is an American tap dancer and writer. She co-founded, choreographed and directed the American Tap Dance Foundation, known at the time as the American Tap Dance Orchestra. Bufalino wrote a memoir entitled, Tapping the Source...Tap dance, Stories, Theory and Practice and a book of poems Circular Migrations, both of which have been published by Codhill Press, and the novella Song of the Split Elm, published by Outskirts Press. She has been awarded The Flobert Award, The Tapestry Award, The Tap City Hall of Fame Award, The Dance Magazine, and the Bessie Award, all for outstanding achievement and contributions to the field of tap dance.

Despite his cancer going into remission, he instantly passes away due to an allergic reaction to the peanuts on a peanut truck in a car crash when his brakes gave out during a ride home from the hospital. It was also revealed that Herb's office was under the room where tap dancer Savion Glover kept a studio. Following his death, Henry Winkler (who Herb met volunteering at Habitat for Humanity) and Tina stole the manuscript of his poorly written novel to keep it from being published and tainting his legacy. In "Out to Sea", Herb's ashes are donated to the Jerb Kazzaz Memorial Orphanage (misspelled due to BoJack's email and the hedgehog owner's stubborn refusal to pay for its replacement).

Stephenson was born in Sunderland. As a boy, he wanted to become a tap dancer like his idol Gene Kelly, but he was persuaded by his father and his brother to take up the drums. Ronnie was given a second-hand drum kit when he was 14 and, a year later, aged 15, he was playing with semi-professional bands near his home. His elder brother Billy played the piano, and his brother Bob also became a pianist, but Ronnie was focussed on playing the drums. He already played his first gig in public in the same week as he took his first drum lesson at the age of 14 and was soon working with pianist elder brother Bob's band, and then with the Ray Chester’s Sextet.

Accessed February 28, 2011. "He studied piano as a child, and like his brothers - Jimmy, an arranger for the vocalist Phoebe Snow, and Jerry, for years a saxophonist for Frankie Valli - began making a living at music soon after his graduation in 1969 from Glen Rock High School in Bergen County." where he produced a musical revue starring the school's janitorial staff. Floyd began his live performance career working as a child tap dancer in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and began his broadcast career over a friend's pirate radio station while in high school. Floyd Vivino is the older brother of Jerry Vivino and Jimmy Vivino, who were members of the Basic Cable Band, formerly known as the Max Weinberg 7.

This led to work with collaborators such as Pat Metheny, John Zorn, Lee Konitz, David Sylvian, Cyro Baptista, Cecil Taylor, Keiji Haino, tap dancer Will Gaines, Drum 'n' Bass DJ Ninj, Susie Ibarra, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth and the Japanese noise rock group Ruins. Despite often performing and recording in a solo context, he was far more interested in the dynamics and challenges of working with other musicians, especially those who did not necessarily share his approach. As he put it in a March 2002 article of Jazziz magazine: Bailey was also known for his dry sense of humour. In 1977, Musics magazine sent the question "What happens to time-awareness during improvisation?" to about thirty musicians associated with the free improvisation scene.

In 1926, they returned to Paris for Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1926 with Ulysses as a featured dancer and Mills being the star attraction. Upon recognizing her talent was greater than his own, Thompson subjugated his career to be her manager and promoter. When his wife became sick in 1927 and died of a tuberculosis-related disease, Thompson was distraught, but he worked hard to revive his former career as a dancer. The 1930s saw him performing world wide as a tap dancer in such distant places as Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand; Bucharest, Romania; Budapest, Hungary; Berlin, Germany; Bombay, India; Manila, Philippines; Shanghai and Hong Kong, China; Hawaii; Cuba; and Australia, where he made three tours under the management of George Sorlie.

Directed by Johnson, the piece starred Francis Van Wetering as Titus, Alexandra Cirves as Tamora, Roger Casey as Aaron (aka The Evil Black Guy) and Lauren Huyett as Lavinia. Staged as a farce, the production included moments such as Lavinia singing a song entitled "At least I can still sing" after having her hands cut off, but as she reaches the finale, Chiron and Demetrius return and cut out her tongue; Lucius is portrayed as a homosexual in love with Saturninus, and everyone knows except Titus; Titus kills Mutius not because he defies him, but because he discovers that Mutius wants to be a tap dancer instead of a soldier; Bassianus is a transvestite; Saturninus is addicted to prescription medication; and Tamora is a nymphomaniac.

He loved his native New York City and gained notoriety for his generosity, performing at more of 3000 benefits, but was also a compulsive gambler and a womanizer. Hines, one of the greatest tap dancer of his generation, displays his fascination with the history of the art, but instead of creating a glorified image of the man and his work, he shows a different side of the entertainer. Some of the best scenes of Bojangles are the dance numbers, including a memorable duplication by Hines of a filmed dance by Robinson using an up-and-down set of stairs in which Hines' step dance is repeated with the film of Robinson's, side by side. An effective supporting cast helps to keep the energy levels from flagging.

By age ten, Yancey had toured across the United States as a tap dancer and singer, and by twenty he had toured throughout Europe. He began teaching himself to play the piano at the age of 15, and by 1915 had become a noted pianist and was already influencing younger musicians, including Meade Lux Lewis and Albert Ammons. He played in a boogie- woogie style, with a strong-repeated figure in the left hand and melodic decoration in the right, but his playing was delicate and subtle rather than hard driving. He popularized the left-hand figure that became known as the "Yancey bass", later used in Pee Wee Crayton's "Blues After Hours", Guitar Slim's "The Things That I Used to Do", and many other songs.

He has collaborated with tap dancer, actor, and choreographer Savion Glover on his production Classical Savion, and he has appeared with Sting, Dave Stewart, Lana Del Rey, Cassandra Wilson, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, guitarist Vernon Reid of Living Colour, Susan Sarandon, Beyoncé Knowles, and Olivia Newton John. Chad Kaltinger, violist with QSF since 2012, grew up in Chicago and moved to San Francisco in 1997. He has been Principal Violist for Opera San Jose and the Santa Cruz Symphony and has toured in the US and Europe as a multi-instrumentalist with several singer-songwriters and bands. He studied privately at Northwestern University with Peter Slowik, at the University of Illinois with Emanuel Vardi, and at the Aspen Music Festival as a fellowship recipient with Heidi Castleman and Victoria Chiang.

Born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, Baker appeared aged 15 as a tap dancer on CBS Radio's Major Bowes' Amateur Hour in New York City, winning a spot in a vaudeville touring company. He graduated from Central High School in Tulsa, and studied at Oklahoma State University, where he formed an eight-piece band, named by Down Beat magazine as the best college dance band in the U.S. During World War II, he led an Air Force band, Men of the Air, and prepared shows to entertain the troops, "Oklahoman entertainer Baker dies", The Oklahoman, February 21, 2003. Retrieved May 10, 2020 "James H. ‘Jimmie’ Baker: Television producer and director", Variety, April 3, 2003. Retrieved May 10, 2020 "Baker, James (Jimmie) Hollan", Oklahoma Hall of Fame. Retrieved 8 May 2020 at one time working with Veronica Lake.

Stevens spent 20 years playing, coaching, and managing professional baseball, much of it in the Pacific Coast League, but is best remembered as the player who delivered the first major league hit off pitching legend Satchel Paige. At an early age Stevens played baseball and basketball, but he also was always interested in music, playing guitar, fiddle and percussion, and became an accomplished tap dancer in his youth. Following his graduation from Long Beach Polytechnic High School in early 1937, he enrolled at the Cal Berkeley, but turned his attention to baseball and signed a contract with the St. Louis Browns of the American League before the 1938 season. He went to spring training in San Antonio, Texas before reporting to the Williamston Class-D team of the Coastal Plain League, where he hit .

The following year, she finished 9th place in the seventh season of the U.S. version of So You Think You Can Dance; it was the furthest any tap dancer had gone on the show until fellow tap contestant Aaron Turner finally topped her record in Season 10. In 2011, Sullivan toured with Jason Samuels Smith's A.C.G.I. troupe, which blended an improvisational style with traditional dance choreography. In 2016, she danced in the film La La Land''s opening number, "Another Day of Sun", which was shot at the interchange of the Interstate 105 and 110 freeways. In December 2017, she was one of a quartet of female dancers in Michelle Dorrance's Until the Real Thing Comes Along (a letter to ourselves), which debuted at New York's Joyce Theater.

Ronnie Rocket concerned the story of a detective seeking to enter a mysterious second dimension, aided by his ability to stand on one leg. He is being obstructed on this quest by a strange landscape of odd rooms and a threatening train; while being stalked by the "Donut Men", who wield electricity as a weapon. In addition to the detective's story, the film was to show the tale of Ronald d'Arte, a teenage dwarf, who suffers a surgical mishap which leaves him dependent on being plugged into an electrical supply at regular intervals; this dependence grants him an affinity over electricity which he can use to produce music or cause destruction. The boy names himself Ronnie Rocket and becomes a rock star, befriending a tap-dancer named Electra-Cute.

Sandrich was originally slated to direct this film, but died of a heart attack during pre-production and Stuart Heisler was drafted in to replace him. Heisler wanted Caulfield replaced, but Crosby—who was having an affair with Caulfield—protected her. Tap dancer Paul Draper was the initial choice to partner Crosby; however, during the first week of production Draper's speech impediment and his trenchant criticism of Caulfield's dance ability led Crosby to insist on his replacement by Astaire, who, then 47, had already decided that this would be his final film and that he would retire, having spent over 40 years performing before the public. The film was billed as "Astaire's last picture" and its very strong performance at the box office pleased him greatly, as he had dearly wanted to go out on a high note.

Schiffman had first introduced an amateur night at the Lafayette Theater, where it was known as "Harlem Amateur Hour", and was hosted by Ralph Cooper. At the Apollo, it was originally called "Audition Night", but later became "Amateur Night in Harlem", held every Wednesday evening and broadcast on the radio over WMCA and eleven affiliate stations. One unique feature of the Apollo during Amateur Nights was "the executioner", a man with a broom who would sweep performers off the stage if the highly vocal and opinionated audiences began to call for their removal. Vaudeville tap dancer "Sandman" Sims played the role from the 1950s to 2000; stagehand Norman Miller, known as "Porto Rico" (later played by Bob Collins) might also chase the unfortunate performer offstage with a cap pistol, accompanied by the sound of a siren.

Contrary to obvious and popular belief, Quant named the garment after the Mini Cooper, a favorite car of hers, stating that the car and the skirt were both "optimistic, exuberant, young, flirty", and complemented each other. Quant had started experimenting with shorter skirts in the late 1950s, when she started making her own designs up to stock her boutique on the King's Road. Among her inspirations was the memory of seeing a young tap-dancer wearing a "tiny skirt over thick black tights", influencing her designs for young, active women who did not wish to resemble their mothers. In addition to the miniskirt, Quant is often credited with inventing the coloured and patterned tights that tended to accompany the garment, although their creation is also attributed to the Spanish couturier Cristóbal Balenciaga who offered harlequin-patterned tights in 1962 or to Bates.

Arthur Duncan (born September 25, 1933) is an American tap dancer, known for his stint as a performer on The Lawrence Welk Show from 1964 to 1982, which, along with his earlier inclusion (despite Southern objections) on Betty White's variety/talk show (1954), made him the first African-American regular on variety television programs. Born in Pasadena, California, Duncan entered show business at age 13, when he was a member of a dance quartet that performed at McKinley Junior High School in Pasadena, California. He later entered Pasadena City College to study pharmacy, but left to pursue a career in show business, touring with The Jimmie Rodgers Show and Betty White's 1954 variety show. In 1957, Duncan joined Bob Hope's troupe touring U.S. military bases, making him the first African-American to be part of that 100-member group.

After the acquisition of the new Chevy account and the subsequent merger with CGC, Ken is assigned to deal with the account, necessitating that he be in Detroit more and more often. Ken's happy-go-lucky attitude begins to fade, and the number of things he has to do for work that he does not like, increase. He is forced to spend time away from his family in Detroit, and he is injured by the Chevy car executives while engaging in leisure activities with them. In "The Crash", while under the influence of a "mild stimulant" that is intended to help SCDP employees to work the extra hours needed on the Chevy account, Ken demonstrates that he is a talented tap dancer, but can't remember clearly whether he learned the skill from his mother or his first girlfriend.

Heide Vosseler (1918–1992) was a European-born ballerina and member of George Balanchine's first American ballet company, American Ballet, from 1935 to 1938. She performed in his first American ballet, Serenade,Sunday NY Times, February 24, 1935 in his Alma Mater,NY Times, September 27, 1935 in two productions he choreographed for the Metropolitan Opera,NY Times, February 5, 1938NY Times, August 8, 1935NY Times by H. Howard Taubman, April 13, 1938th and was featured in two Broadway musicals he choreographed, The Boys from SyracuseNY Times, November 24, 1938 and Louisiana Purchase in which she understudied and appeared for Vera Zorina.NY Times, December 17, 1940 Her sister Mardee was also a ballerina.NY Times, November 3, 1941 Miss Vosseler married tap dancer Paul Draper on June 23, 1941, in Rio de JaneiroNY Times, July 14, 1941 and lived with him in Europe until returning to the United States in 1954.

Natives of Philadelphia, the sisters: Debra Elaine "Debbie" Sledge (born July 9, 1954), Joan Elise "Joni" Sledge (September 13, 1956 – March 10, 2017), Kim Sledge (born August 21, 1957), and Kathy Sledge (born January 6, 1959) are the daughters of Broadway tap dancer Edwin Sledge (1923–1996) and actress Florez Sledge (née Williams; 1928–2007) The sisters were given vocal training by their grandmother Viola Williams, a former lyric soprano opera singer and protégé of civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune. Under Viola’s guidance, they regularly sang at their family church, Williams Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal until forming a band and performing at charity and political events throughout Philadelphia, aptly named Mrs Williams’ Grandchildren. The sisters graduated from Olney High School: Debbie in 1972, Joni in 1974, Kim in 1975, and Kathy in 1977. By the end of the decade, all four sisters graduated from Temple University in Philadelphia.

Rachael Worby is an American conductor who currently serves as the Artistic Director, Conductor and Founder of MUSE/IQUE. Her preferred biography is posted on MUSE/IQUE's website and shared here: Guest artists from various disciplines grace each season, from dancers, to ice skaters, vocalists and musicians of every genre. Celebrated artists such as tap dancer Savion Glover, cellist Matt Haimovitz, bluesman John Hammond, soprano Jessye Norman, actors Courtney B. Vance and Angela Bassett, vocalist Rickie Lee Jones, jazz musicians Arturo Sandoval and Alfredo Rodriguez, Motown star Darlene Love, Olympic champion Mirai Nagasu, Ballet Hispánico, Broadway star Joshua Henry, jazz vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater, classical crossover Billy Childs, The Doric String Quartet, daKAH Hip Hop Orchestra, American Ballet Theatre and more have all shared the stage with MUSE/IQUE. Highly respected as an arts educator, Rachael’s belief that arts education and community engagement are an essential part of an organization is a focus of MUSE/IQUE’s mission.

Raised by what would now likely be known as a stage mom, Fabray herself was not much interested in show business until later on, and never believed in pushing children into performing at a young age, instead wishing for them to be able to live out their childhoods as opposed to having to deal with adult concerns at a young age. Her early dance training, however, did lead her always to consider herself a tap dancer first and foremost. Contrary to popular misinformation from an undying rumor, she was never a regular or reoccurring guest of the Our Gang series; she did however, appear as an extra one single time, a guest among many other children in a party scene. Fabray's parents divorced when she was nine, but they continued living together for financial reasons. During the Great Depression, her mother turned their home into a boarding house, which Fabray and her siblings helped run, Nanette’s main job being ironing clothes.

Daniel Giagni Jr., (October 25, 1924 – July 7, 2017), known as Danny Daniels, was an American choreographer, tap dancer, and teacher.Danny Daniels biography Daniels was a featured dancer in several 1940s Broadway musicals, including Billion Dollar Baby, Street Scene, and Kiss Me, Kate; although he continued performing during the 1950s and after, including a tour with the Agnes de Mille Dance Theatre, Daniels quickly moved into choreography for stage, film, and television. He won a Tony Award and an Astaire Award in 1984 for The Tap Dance Kid and received three more Tony nominations for High Spirits, Walking Happy, and the 1967 revival of Annie Get Your Gun. Notable film and TV credits include Pennies from Heaven (1981), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968), and Zelig (1983), The Judy Garland Show (1963), as well as specials featuring performers such as Gene Kelly and Danny Kaye.

Moulton began his professional career as a dancer in 1972 with Contemporary Dancers Canada in Winnipeg, Manitoba. In 1973 he moved to New York to join the Merce Cunningham Dance Company where he danced from 1973-76. Moulton created his own company in 1978, which toured nationally and internationally for ten years. He created a wide variety of works in collaboration with designers Charles Atlas and Frank Moore, and composers Dick Connette, Scott Johnson, Bill Obrecht, Steve Elson and Lenny Pickett. A virtuoso tap dancer, Moulton studied under Charles “Cookie” Cook and Honi Coles. In 1975 he created a tap solo “300 300 300 / 1400” which was shown at the Paula Cooper Gallery. In 1986 he created “Tapnology,” called by the New York Times “One of the Ten Best Dance Events of The Year,” in which microphones attached to his shoes transmitted signals that triggered a variety of midi sounds and noises. He toured this work extensively through the United States.

Bridge Productions are always staged in spaces exceptional for their beauty and resonance of the past. Although based in Manhattan, in the 1980s, The Bridge produced summer music theater festivals in the south of France, with an emphasis on the American musical theater. Alan Jay Lerner (lyricist, librettist, My Fair Lady, Camelot), Comden and Green, lyricists- screenwriters Singin' In The Rain, Will Rogers Follies) tap dancer Honi Coles, (Tony Award winner, My One and Only), Virgil Thomson, (critic and composer, Four Saints in Three Acts), members of the American Dance Machine and of Joseph Chaikin's experimental The Open Theater, and others performed at night and taught master classes during the day. Each summer, through the invitation of The Bridge and the International Theatre Institute,"Theatre Notes," International Theatre Institute USA, No. 107, May 1982 (a branch of UNESCO), 150 actors, singers, dancers, choreographers, playwrights, composers, directors and lyricists and librettists from, at times, 22 countries including France, China, Australia, Ethiopia, Madagascar, America and Japan came to partake free of charge in The Bridge programs.

In 1930 he was hired for a summer seaside concert party and at the end of the season was taken by his agent to the Cone School of Dance who were looking for a male dancer to partner one of their students. So at the age of 21 he took his place in a class of young girl students to learn the elementary technique of barre and centre practice. Beddoes worked as a chorus boy, tap dancer and singer in several revues until he was unexpectedly asked to join the Camargo Society who, at the time, were recruiting male dancers and was sent to Ninette de Valois who he partnered in one of her ballets Les Petits Riens as well as appearing in Rout,La Creation du Monde and Job. He was subsequently invited to join the Vic-Wells Ballet, forerunner to the Royal Ballet, but had to decline the offer because he would not have been able to survive on the wages as he was hoping to get married.

Berta and Earl Spain were known to have brought Jazz back to Uptown in Harlem. The saxophonist Patience Higgins (and late bassist Andy McCloud III) were original St Nick's Pub regulars. They were a part of the house band, along with drummer Dave Gibson, pianists Les Kurtz and Marcus Persiani. The pub was also known for having surprised guests along with regulars; such as Roy Hargrove, Russell Malone, Stanley Turrentine, Tamm E. Hunt, Craig Haynes,Donald Byrd, Frank Lacy, Melvin Vines and the Harlem Jazz Machine (Monday Night Jam Sessions, Atiba Kwabena-Wilson with his band, the Befo’ Quotet, Savion Glover the tap dancer, Vanessa Rubin, David Murray, Stevie Wonder, Lawrence Clark, Wycliffe Gordon, George Braith, Olu Dara, T.C. III, James Carter, Buster Brown, Dennis Llewellyn Day aka Dennis Day, Bill Saxton, Rahn Burton, Gregory Porter, Donald Smith, Leopolda Fleming, Sonny Rollins, Bill Saxton, Wayne Escoffery, Hamiet Bluiett, Sophia Loren Coffee (vocalist & Entertainment Promoter for St. Nick's Pub), Lybya Pugh, Sugar Hill Jazz Quartet, Kathryn Farmer, and Grammy award winner pianist Albert "Chip" Crawford.

Working out of their Chicago office, Richardson and her staff have recorded more than 2,000 interviews (8,000 hours of footage) with both well-known and unsung African Americans, including General Colin Powell, Angela Davis, Julian Bond, Russell Simmons, Benjamin Carson, Harry Belafonte, Ernie Banks, Gwen Ifill, Maya Angelou, and President Barack Obama when he was an Illinois State Senator. The archive also includes lesser- known African Americans who have been successful in a variety of ways, such as Myrtis Dightman, the first black cowboy to qualify for the Professional Rodeo Association National Finals, Geraldine Johnson, the first African-American woman to be Superintendent of Schools in Connecticut, and Ludie Jones, a tap dancer famous for her performances during the prohibition era. Richardson serves as the Executive Director of The HistoryMakers as well as president of the History Makers National Board of Directors. As Executive Director, she has also produced a plethora of successful public programs and special events, including the HistoryMakers' annual signature PBS-TV Celebrity interview and fundraiser, "An Evening With...".