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The National Black Media Coalition Lifetime Achievement Award (1992) [34] Flo-Bert Award (1992) [34] New York's Tap Dance Committee, Gypsy Award (1994) [34] A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7083 Hollywood Blvd (1994) [34] Professional Dancer's Society, Dance Magazine Award of (1995) [34]
In 1989, he created and hosted a PBS special called Gregory Hines' Tap Dance in America, which featured various tap dancers such as Savion Glover and Bunny Briggs. [6] [7] In 1990, Hines visited his idol (and Tap co-star) Sammy Davis Jr., who was dying of throat cancer and was unable to speak. After Davis died, an emotional Hines spoke at Davis ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American male dancers. It includes American male dancers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Contents
Terry Criner was a fourth-grade elementary student when he was picked to share the stage with some of the greatest dancers in tap history. Although a novice in the art of tap dancing, his acrobatic-dance skills combined landed him into a unique place in history. Criner was the protégé of Maceo E. Anderson, one of the original members.
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 song-and-dance man started young, blazed trails as perhaps the first Black regular on a TV variety show and kept at it until his death at 97. Arthur Duncan, who kept virtuoso tap dancing alive ...
Henry "Crip" Heard (November 11, 1924 – September 11, 1991) [1] was an American professional dancer who appeared mostly in black vaudeville theaters and nightclubs during the late 1940s and 50s. What distinguished Heard from nearly all his peers was that he was a double amputee, dancing with only one leg and one arm.
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