Jeni LeGon
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Female Hoofers
To learn even more, you can now sign up as a member and get special videos, information and invitations to special events. Tap dance is an indigenous American dance genre that evolved over a period of some three hundred years. Initially a fusion of British and West African musical and step-dance traditions in America,…
African American oral traditions, Alice Austen House, American dance styles, Baby Edwards Hunt, Bill bojangles Robinson, Black female hoofers, Bushwick Open Studio, Cab Calloway, Cholly Atkins, Cora LaRedd, Cotton Clubs, dragging, Duke Ellington, Edwina Salt Evelyn, Fats Waller, flat-footed gliding, Florence Mills, Harlem Renaissance, Hooray for Love, Irish culture, Jeni LeGon, Jewel Pepper Welch, Lang Sisters, Lena Horne, Lois Bright Miller, Louis Armstrong, Ludie Jones, ragged tunes, Roaring Twenties, shuffling steps, syncopated jig tunes, The Three Poms, USO tours, West African culture, Whitman Sisters
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History of Tap Dance
To learn even more, you can now sign up as a member and get special videos, information and invitations to special events. Tap dance is an indigenous American dance genre that evolved over a period of some three hundred years. Initially a fusion of British and West African musical and step-dance traditions in America, tap…
Ada Overton Walker, Afro-Caribbean rhythms, American tap dance, cakewalk, clogs, Gregory Hines, hard-soled shoes, Honi Coles, indigenous American dance, Irish jigging, jazz music, Jeni LeGon, Jimmy Slyde, Latin American rhythm, Lotta (Mignon) Crabtree, Master Juba, metal plates, minstrel show, percussive dance, percussive footwork, Sammy Davis Jr., Sandman Simms, Savion Glover, step dancing, tap dance, taps, West African dance, West African gioube
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