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Miller Brothers and Lois tap dance act (50:50 to 56:28) in Hi De Ho. Miller Brothers and Lois, a renowned tap dance class act team, comprising Danny Miller, George Miller and Lois Bright, was a peak of platform dancing [1]: 328 with the tall and graceful Lois said to distinguish the trio. [2]
Tap dance (or tap) is a form of dance that uses the sounds of tap shoes striking the floor as a form of percussion; it is often accompanied by music. [1] Tap dancing can also be a cappella, with no musical accompaniment; the sound of the taps is its own music. It is an African-American artform that evolved alongside the advent of jazz music.
Marshall and Jean Stearns, Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance (1968) p. 272; Larry Billman, Film Choreographers and Stage Directors: an Illustrated Biographic Encyclopedia, 1893–1995 (1995) pp. 66, 146, 389, 508-509; Rusty Frank, TAP! The Greatest Tap Dance Stars and Their Stories 1900-1955 (1995), pp. 65, 229, 295, films: 303-315
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 ...
In 1968, the Hoofers traveled to Africa on a State Department sponsored Jazz Dance Theater tour, where they performed for Emperor Haile Selassie. [1] In the 1970s, he became a lifetime member of the tap dancing The Copasetics Club, founded in 1949, in memory of Bill Robinson. In 1974, Brown appeared in the tap dance documentary, Great Feats of ...
The combination of African foot stomping, Irish step and his lengthy experience contributes to the world of tap dancing. Reginald "The Hoofer" McLaughlin performed in various theatre shows and he worked with the pioneers of tap dance. As a principal tap dancer he was seen in two Duke Ellington musicals: Jump for Joy and Beggar's Holiday.
Enslaved is a British-Canadian television documentary series, which premiered in 2020. [1] The series explores various aspects of the history of slavery in the United States, including the efforts of American actor Samuel L. Jackson to reconnect with his African heritage through DNA testing, diving projects to locate and recover shipwrecks in which at least two million African people captured ...
Le Roy quickly worked his way into Broadway roles, where his tap dance style created a sensation in the 1931 Ziegfeld Follies. On April 12, 1934, he married Ruth Hedwig Dod (March 13, 1911 – July 1, 1979), who had been one of his dance partners. [3] Le Roy also began doing a series of musical film shorts for Vitaphone and Warner Brothers ...