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The Four Step Brothers were an African-American dance group. The group started out as a trio in 1925, with the original members, Maceo Anderson , Al Williams and Red Walker . [ 1 ] Although their original name was the Step Brothers, because that was also the name of another famous young tap dancing quartet, they subsequently changed their name ...
Anderson was the founder of the tap dancing group known as "The Four Step Brothers". The group performed successfully for over thirty years. They were credited as being the first black act to perform at Radio City Music Hall. [citation needed] The Four Step Brothers also made television and motion picture appearances.
Tip, Tap, and Toe were a seminal African-American tap-dance comedy act that began in the late 1920s and appeared in several motion pictures in the 1930s and '40s. Its original members were Sammy Green, Teddy Frazier, and Raymond Winfield. At times it included Freddie James and Prince Spencer, also a member of The Four Step Brothers.
The Nicholas Brothers, African-American team of dancing brothers, Fayard Nicholas (1914–2006) and Harold Nicholas (1921–2000). With their highly acrobatic technique, high level of artistry and daring innovations, they were considered by many the greatest tap dancers of their day.
Flash dancing was a form of tap dance (tap was also called jazz dance at the time) that evolved in the 1920s–1930s, which combined dance with acrobatics. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Prominent flash dance acts of the time include the Nicholas Brothers , The Four Step Brothers and the Berry Brothers .
Sweet Sensation, a female freestyle-dance music trio from The Bronx, New York, composed of Betty LeBron, sisters Margie & Mari Fernandez (Sheila Vega replaced Mari in 1989) Switch, an American R&B/funk band, with brothers Bobby and Tommy DeBarge, that found fame in the late 1970s; Switchfoot, an American rock band, Jon Foreman and brother Tim
Step Brothers, directed by The Big Short Oscar winner Adam McKay, centers on Brennan (Will Ferrell) and Dale (John C. Reilly), two middle-aged man-children who become step brothers when their ...
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.