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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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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 a New York Times review on February 19, 1940, dance critic John Martin wrote of Dunham: "Her performance with her group last Sunday at the Windsor Theatre may very well become a historic occasion, for certainly never before in all efforts of recent years to establish Negro dance as a serious medium has there been so convincing and ...
Betty Rowland performed at the famous club Minsky's in New York City, where she earned the nickname "Ball of Fire" from both her flaming red hair and hot and fast style of dancing. [7] She moved to Los Angeles, California in 1938. By 1941, the fresh-faced Rowland was established as a burlesque star.
Fort Worth was a frequent stop for some of Hollywood’s biggest movie stars during the 1940s and 1950s. These photos from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s archive capture some of the glitz and ...