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Yvonne Chouteau (1929–2016), dancer, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, co-founder of University of Oklahoma School of Dance; Lia Cirio, dancer, principal dancer, Boston Ballet; Natalia Clare (1919–1995), dancer with Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, founder of Ballet la Jeunesse; Bessie Clayton (c. 1875–1948), show dancer, choreographer of the Gay ...
Ann Miller (born Johnnie Lucille Collier; April 12, 1923 – January 22, 2004) was an American actress and dancer.She is best remembered for her work in the classical Hollywood cinema musicals of the 1940s and 1950s.
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.
Barker was featured in a YouTube video, uploaded in April 2015, titled "102 y/o Dancer Sees Herself on Film for the First Time" which attracted over 40 million views on the site. This fame led her to receive thousands of fanmail, and on her 103rd birthday, she received a letter from the White House. [11] [12] [13]
Jewel McGowan, dancer of Lindy Hop, a form of swing dance, in the 1940s and 1950s. She is known among dance aficionados as the frequent partner of dancer Dean Collins. Jewel was considered by her fellow Los Angeles dancers to be the best female swing dancer who ever lived.
Fellow tap dancers such as Robinson and Jewel "Pepper" Welch praised her as being better than any tap dancer of her time, male or female. Tap dancer Ayodele Casel listed Madison as one of the "many many... Black women tap dancers from the 1920s and 50s whose stories have been lost to history" and as "one of the progenitors of [the] art" of tap ...
Also: United States: People: By occupation: Dancers / Women entertainers: Female dancers This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American dancers . It includes dancers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
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