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LaTasha Barnes in 2024. LaTasha Barnes is an American dancer, educator, and choreographer. [1] [2] She is the creator and director of The Jazz Continuum, an African roots-based production encompassing Lindy Hop, house dance, locking, breaking, voguing, and jazz dance that connects dance of the swing era to dance today.
This is a list of female entertainers of the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, in the 1920s. Dancers, choreographers, and orchestra leaders
In When Women Invented Television, author Jennifer Keishin Armstrong features her as one of four women who had a major influence on the medium. [35] In 2022, Dance Theatre of Harlem debuted a new ballet about the life of Hazel Scott. [36] On February 21, 2025, the American Masters documentary The Disappearance of Hazel Scott will air on PBS ...
The Rebecca Moses portraits of eight strong and influential Black female jazz singers will be exhibited at the Ralph Pucci International gallery in Los Angeles.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:African-American dancers. It includes African-American dancers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
A singer and flash dancer, "Bert" topped her Strut with high-kicking legomania. Alice was the star of the show and billed as the "Queen of Taps," enhancing such popular dances as Ballin' the Jack, Walkin' the Dog, and the Shim-Sham-Shimmy with clear and clean tapping. She was considered the best female tap dancer in the 1920s. [2]
In the 1920s, women singing jazz music were not many, but women playing instruments in jazz music were even less common. Mary Lou Williams, known for her talent as a piano player, is deemed as one of the "mothers of jazz" due to her singing while playing the piano at the same time. [4] Lovie Austin (1887–1972) was a piano player and bandleader.
Samuels is the founder and artistic director of Jazz Roots Dance Company, which was formed in 2009 to preserve and promote the classic jazz dance style. She considers choreography the foundation of her practice and almost all of the Jazz Roots Dance Company repertory is arranged by her. [ 7 ]