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The studios closed down in the mid-1950s as new forms of dance became popular. Veloz and Yolanda did much to legitimize ballroom dance as a performance art and invented the "Cobra Tango", a dance which interpreted a fight between a snake and a tiger. A full-length ballet written by their son Guy Veloz, An American Tango, is based on their life ...
Eleanor Torrey Powell (November 21, 1912 – February 11, 1982) was an American dancer and actress. Best remembered for her tap dance numbers in musical films in the 1930s and 1940s, she was one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's top dancing stars during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
After performing a "grand acrobatic dance" [7] in the 1944 MGM musical film Broadway Rhythm, [8] to the song "Solid Potato Salad" co-written by Don Raye, Gene de Paul and Hughie Prince, [9] they appeared regularly in nightclub shows around the United States. In May 1944, a reviewer noted that: "Girls are weak in the voice department but go over ...
In 1946, Limón founded the José Limón Dance Company. His most famous dance is The Moor's Pavane (1949), based on Shakespeare's Othello. Chloe Lukasiak (born May 25, 2001), American actress, dancer, author, model and reality TV star most known for starring on the reality show, Dance Moms.
Jean Grinnell Veloz (née Phelps, March 1, 1924 – January 15, 2023) was an American lindy hop dancer and actress, best known for her roles in 1940s and 1950s musicals. She innovated a style of swing dance that was "silky smooth", now known as "Hollywood style" contrasting the more jitterbug style prevalent during the 1930s-1940s.
She was also the dance director of the Silver Belles. [5] Elaine Ellis (November 30, 1917 – December 21, 2013) was born in Panama and traveled to New York with her family at a young age. She started dancing in response to an advertisement searching for Spanish dancers. She learned how to dance from both chorus girls and men tap dancers.
Carmen de Lavallade is a dancer and choreographer who rose to fame in the 1950s and made history as one of the first Black performers to ever dance at the Metropolitan Opera House.
Al Minns (1 January 1920 – 24 April 1985), was a prominent American Lindy Hop and jazz dancer.Most famous for his film and stage performances in the 1930s and 1940s with the Harlem-based Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, Minns worked throughout his life to promote the dances that he and his cohorts helped to pioneer at New York's Savoy Ballroom.