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The cakewalk was influenced by the ring shout, which survived from the 18th into the 20th century. [5] This dance style was often part of African American slaves' religious ceremonies and involved shuffling the feet counterclockwise in a circle (ring) formation and reciting spirituals in a call-and-response format with others outside of the ring.
Saint Suttle (February 1870 – February 4, 1932), was an American composer and performer. Suttle was well known as a cakewalk artist and vaudeville performer in Chicago. [1] [2] An African American, he was a pioneering performer in early film of the late 19th-century. [3]
He gained a production in 1898 of his Clorindy: The Origin of the Cakewalk, a one-act musical comedy created in collaboration with poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. The Cakewalk, a dance originating from enslaved African Americans as a satirical mimicry of European ballroom styles, became a central feature of Cook's work on In Dahomey [18].
William Henry Joseph Cutter Brown (c. 1835 – February 28, 1905), known as Joseph "Doc" Brown was an American dancer and champion cakewalker. Doc Brown was born into slavery in 1835 and died of tuberculosis in February 1905. While it is said one of his local neighbors filmed Brown's Cake Walk performances, any film is yet to be found.
English: 10 second clip of five African-American dancers perform a cakewalk, 1903. Date: 1903: Source :
African-American dance is a form of dance that was created by Africans in the Diaspora, specifically the United States. ... The cakewalk, for example, ...
Playbill from 1898 showing Edward E. Rice's Production of Clorindy featuring the song "Darktown is Out Tonight". Clorindy, or The Origin of the Cake Walk [1] is a one-act musical by composer Will Marion Cook and librettist Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Ida Forsyne (January 1, 1883 – August 19, 1983), sometimes seen as Ida Forcen, or Ida Forcyne, was an African-American vaudeville dancer who toured in Europe and Russia before World War I. Professionally she was known as the 'Queen of the Cakewalk'.