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Juba & Daddy Jim Crow (1800-1900)
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| jig-most influential performers of the 1800s |
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| noted technician, syncopated clog |
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| Eddie Leonard (1800-1900) |
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| virginia essence, soft shoe, composer |
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| george primrose (1800-1900) |
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| great stylist and exponent of soft shoe |
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| Adele and Fred Astaire (1900-1920) |
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| Tap, Ballroom, Vaudeville, Broadway |
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| King Rastus Brown (1900-1920) |
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| time steps, flat-footed buck and wing |
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| george m. cohan (1900-1920) |
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| buck dancer, author, composer, producer |
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| busby berkeley (1920-1930) |
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| spectacular movie choreographer who did not tap |
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| paddle and roll, soft style, a copasetic |
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| Willie Bryant (1920-1930) |
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| created the shim sham shimmy |
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| James 'Buster' Brown (1920-1930) |
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| tapper with Duke Ellington's band, a Copasetic |
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| Renown NYC & Los Angeles teacher |
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| Buck/Rhythm, stage and screen star, 42nd street |
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| soft show, invented bambalina (traveling time step) |
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| created the shim sham shimmy |
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| Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson (1920-1930) |
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| danced on the balls of feet, clear precise taps, master of time steps, stair dance, partner to shirley temple in the 1930's, buck & wing |
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| Cholly Atkins (1930-1940) |
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| partner of honi coles for 20 years, soft shoe, flash |
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| John W. Bubbles (1930-1940) |
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| rhythm tap, close to the floor heel work |
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| eccentric, scarecrow in 'The Wizard of Oz' |
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| Nicholas Brothers (1930-1940) |
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| fayard & harold, tap, acrobatics, flash, stage and screen |
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| Ernest Carlos (1930-1940) |
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| established new york city teacher, 'snake hips' tap |
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| fastest feet in the business, smooth soft shoe |
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| tap percussionist, danced in one spot |
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| concert tap dancer, ballet-tap barre, ballet-tap concerts |
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| Ronald Dupree (1930-1940) |
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| dancer, teacher, choreographer from Los Angeles |
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| legomania, soft shoe, eccentric, stage and screen |
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| master teacher new york city |
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| Russell Markert (1930-1940) |
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| rounder of the radio city rockettes, 36 precision kick line dancers |
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| classical, rhythm tap, fred astaire's movie choreographer |
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| eleanor powell (1930-1940) |
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| greatest female tapper of the 20th century |
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| Shirley Temple (1930-1940) |
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| "America's Little Darling", teamed with Bill Robinson |
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| Danny Daniels (1940-1960) |
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| classical tap, teacher, film and b'way choreographer |
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| MGM Dancing star, ballet, tap, jazz |
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| Four Step Brothers (1940-1960) |
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| were not brothers, great flash act and rhythm tap |
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| master teacher & author of Gilbert's tap dictionary |
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| tap, acrobatics, ballet, song and dance, very masculine image |
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| fastest tap dancer (500 taps per minute) stage/screen |
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| Donald O'Connor (1940-1960) |
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| eccentric, dancer, comedian, 'singing in the rain' |
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| Harold 'Sandman' Sims (1940-1960) |
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| rhythm tap, traditional tap, copasetic |
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| Glenn Shipley (1940-1960) |
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| master teacher new york city |
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| master of slides, nightclub, stage |
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| master tap teacher, new york city |
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| master tap teacher, chicago & atlanta |
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| Heather Cornell (1970-1980) |
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| Gregory Hines (1970-1980) |
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| traditional tap, film and stage actor |
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| song and dance, director and choreographer of broadway musicals |
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| Hinton Battle (1980-1990) |
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| broadway dancer/singer, flash |
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| broadway dancer, very flexible, flash |
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| Brenda Bufalino (1980-1990) |
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| american tap dance orchestra, new york |
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| Co-founder, jazz tap ensemble, los angeles |
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| author, 'the souls of your feet' |
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| dianne walker (1980-1990) |
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| Michael Flatley (1990-2000) |
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| riverdance, contemporary irish step dancing |
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| savion glover (1990-2000) |
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| traditional tap, broadway's tap dance kid |
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| originiated 'tap dogs', traditional tap |
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