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Monthly Archives: January 2021
Dancing Through Tap History: Rusty Frank
Our friend of the blog, Dennis Mayne, wrote me and said that since I like tap dancers so much I just had to read Rusty Frank’s book, TAP!: The Greatest Tap Dance Stars & Their Stories, where she interviewed all the tap dancing legends! Well, I got the book, and for the last month every morning with my coffee I have been delightedly reading these wonderful primary source interviews with Bunny Briggs, Jimmy Slyde, Hermes Pan, Shirley Temple, Ann Miller and so many more. Fortunately I was able to contact Rusty and we had a delightful interview about her book and she even gave me a little on-air tap dancing lesson!
Click on the triangle or mp3 link above to hear my interview with Rusty Frank as broadcast today on the Arts Express radio program on WBAI FM NYC and Pacifica affiliates across the nation.
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What Kind of Fool Am I?: Sammy Davis Jr.
Monday morning, Sammy does Newley. One thing about Sammy, he always delivered when it required a big finish.
I LOL’d when I realized that he undoes his tie as he turns his back to grab the stool. “Cultivated casualness,” is the term Steve Spill coined and recommends for performers.
Thanks to YouTuber JoeWellington
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The Party’s Over
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January Jots
Celebrating our second year of publication!
Another great free issue of the Arts Express Newsletter
*The Arts Express crew reveal their Favorite Films of the Year
*Featuring the new film about 1968 Olympic winner Tommie Smith who raised his fist in a Black Power salute
*Journalist/artist Liza Béar updates her extraordinary report on Morocco’s occupation of Western Sahara
*and much more!
Get your free copy and free subscription by emailing us at Artsexpresslist@gmail.com and put the word “subscribe” in the subject line
