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Tag: Tap Dance

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Jeni LeGon

Tap, Tap Dance, tap dancing, tap dancers, tap dancer, dance, dancing, dancers, dancer, hoofer, tapper, mgm, movie musicals, feminism, intersectional, intersectional feminism, race, american history, culture, american culture, american history, jazz, movie musicals,

 Jennie May Ligon was born in Chicago, 1916, and became one of the first African American women in tap dance to develop […]

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Eleanor Powell

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Eleanor Torrey Powell was born in Massachusetts, 1912. She took up dance lessons at a young age, as her mother thought it […]

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Bunny Briggs

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Bernard “Bunny” Briggs was born in 1922 in the heart of Harlem, NYC: “a swingin’ area, I’ll tell you that.” According to […]

14/02/201804/04/2018Tap Dance Masters

Fred Astaire

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Frederick Austerlitz was born in 1899 in Omaha, Nebraska, and moved to New York in 1905 with his family to receive dance […]

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Gregory Hines

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Gregory Oliver Hines was born in New York in 1946. The family lived on Sugar Hill, home of black entertainers, on Harlem’s […]

09/02/201804/04/2018Tap Dance Masters

The Nicholas Brothers

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Fayard and Harold Nicholas grew up in Philadelphia, where their parents ran the house band of the Old Standard Theatre. Fayard, 7 […]

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Gene Kelly

  Born Eugene Curran Kelly in Pittsburgh, 1912, Kelly is known today as a legend of the Hollywood “Golden Era”.  A talented […]

08/02/201804/04/2018Tap Dance Masters

Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson

Born Luther Robinson in Richmond, Virginia, 1878, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson is widely recognised as the Grandfather of tap dance as we know […]

02/01/201802/04/2018Tap Dance Masters

Sammy Davis Jr.

  Samuel George Davis Junior was born in Harlem in 1925. His mother – herself a tap dancer on Vaudeville, and her father […]

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