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Black Vaudeville is a term that specifically describes Vaudeville-era African American entertainers and the milieus of dance, music, and theatrical performances they created. Spanning the years between the 1880s and early 1930s, these acts not only brought elements and influences unique to American black culture directly to African Americans ...
Tiana Alexandra-Silliphant (born Du Thi Thanh Nga, August 11, 1956) is a Vietnamese-American actress, filmmaker, and activist.She is best known for her 1992 documentary From Hollywood to Hanoi, [1] [2] the first American feature documentary filmed in Vietnam by a Vietnamese-American.
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Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (born Luther Robinson; May 25, 1878 – November 25, 1949), was an American tap dancer, actor, and singer, the best known and the most highly paid black entertainer in the United States during the first half of the 20th century.
The Pierce Dance Studio was the professional home of his fellow African American choreographer Buddy Bradley, who devised dance routines for the eccentric dancer Tom Patricola, a white man. Patricola performed the Black Bottom with the Ann Pennington in the musical-comedy revue George White's Scandals of 1926 on Broadway, whereupon it became ...
The first original production for Theater in America was of Enemies. [7] In 1974, WNET added The Great Performance, a series of classical concerts. [8] In 1976, Great Performances became the umbrella title and the music section was named Music in America. A third section, Dance In America, was also added.
The Ivy Baxter Dance Group danced at national and civic events and public festivals, introducing Jamaican folk dance. [1] The group toured the United States and Latin America. [ 3 ] Baxter also ran Summer Schools, of ten financed using her personal resources, to teach dancers from around the Caribbean. [ 2 ]
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.