Tag Archives: dance

Dance Tap Roots

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The great Nicholas Brothers tapping up a storm even as youngsters. Pure joy.

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Thanks to YouTuber odessa108

From A Bundle of Blues

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A hot jazz dance routine by Bessie Dudley and Florence Hill with the Duke Ellington Orchestra providing the notes

Thanks to YouTuber Black Film History

Dig Dig Dig For Your Dinner

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Gene Kelly and Phil Silvers sing and dance for their supper.

Thanks to YouTuber Warner Archive

All the News That’s Fit To Dance

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Gene Kelly’s amazing newspaper dance from the film Summer Stock. Kelly has said that this film dance was the one that he had spent the most time ever rehearsing.

Thanks to YouTuber Warner Archive

Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Tap–Demi Remick

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Tap dancer Demi Remick tells the story through tap of the Legend of Zelda in the kingdom of Hyrule.

Thanks to YouTuber PostmodernJukebox

Bad Dreams: Atanasio Nyusi

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A remarkable short dance piece from Mozambique incorporating memories of colonialism. Nyusi was a founding member and dancer of the National Company of Canto and Dance (CND)

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More Than A Woman: Saturday Night Fever

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Monday morning, John Travolta and Karen Lynn Gorney at the Brooklyn disco…

Thanks to YouTuber frontera2032

Special Delivery

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The fabulous Four Step Brothers, from “When Johnny Comes Marching Home” (1942).

Thanks to YouTuber What the Eye Hears

Subway Soirée

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The Meetles, a Beatles cover band, sets people in the Times Square subway station dancing to their three song Beatles set.

Click on the video above for a dance party!

More at MeetlesVideos

Calloway Boogie

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Monday morning, Cab Calloway “keeps you groovy 24 hours a day.”

Marie Bryant is Calloway’s dance partner here.

Thanks to YouTuber TheHideHoMan

The Real Nitty Gritty

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YouTube comments say the wild lead dancer and choreographer is Bobby Banas who played one of the Jets in West Side Story.

Thanks To YouTuber Matthew Enderlin

They All Laughed

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I’m not a fan of Ginger Rogers’s singing, but Fred Astaire’s dancing afterwards is just great.

Thanks to YouTuber Comic Spirit

Billy Jean

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Monday morning as we congratulate Myles Frost for winning the Tony for his portrayal of MJ in the Broadway musical about Jackson’s life, here’s the real thing.

Thanks to YouTuber Pwnsweet

Rhythm Tap with John Bubbles

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John “Bubbles” Sublett, who taught Fred Astaire how to tap, and played Sportin’ Life in Porgy and Bess, was a master of rhythm tap. He appears in the clip above in the 1937 film, Varsity Show, with his long time partner Ford “Buck” Washington.

Thanks to YouTuber AndresDCE

Giros

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Monday morning Brazilian singer Natasha Llerena with dancer Manuel Kanza.

Musicians:
Eduardo Andrade (guitar and musical direction)
Alexandre Berreldi (bass)
Pat Costta (backing vocal)
Michel Nascimento (percussion)
Pedro Amparo (percussion)

More at Natasha Llerena

Thanks to Arthur Stead for drawing my attention to her music.

Audition

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Monday morning, put the oxygen tanks on standby.

That’s Graeme Henderson putting the chorus gypsies through their paces in the London West End revival of 42nd Street

Thanks to YouTuber Great Performances | PBS

No Business Like Shoe Business: Hobson’s Choice

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A delightful dance from The Birmingham Royal Ballet in David Bintley’s Hobson’s Choice, about the three daughters of a shoestore owner. With Stephen Wicks as Albert Prosser and Chenca Williams as Alice Hobson.

Thanks to YouTuber Ballet archive

Give My Regards

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James Cagney hoofing as George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy

Thanks to YouTuber Dana Spiardi

Ray Bolger

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If your only experience with seeing Ray Bolger dance is as the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, you have a treat awaiting you in this clip from the 1949 film, Look For The Silver Lining.

Thanks to YouTuber Bill Green

Tip, Tap and Toe

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From Abbott and Costello’s Pardon My Sarong, 1942

Samuel Green (Tip), Ted Fraser (Tap) and Ray Winfield (Toe).

That’s Ray Winfield doing the slides.

Thanks to YouTuber Ákos Bulyáki

Jitterbugging With Jerry

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That’s 1954’s “Living It Up” with Jerry Lewis, and the explosive Sheree North who was being groomed to be the next Marilyn Monroe.

Thanks to YouTuber SoleilSmile

Tapping with The Berry Brothers

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From Panama Hattie, 1942, The Berry Brothers with their signature routine which Rusty Frank talks about in her great book, TAP!: The Greatest Tap Dance Stars & Their Stories.

Thanks to YouTuber warnerarchive

The High School Hoofer: Hal LeRoy

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From The Ziegfield Follies of 1931, the amazing 17 year old Hal LeRoy.

And a happy Bar Mitzvah to Nat!

Thanks to YouTuber patrix springer