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Western European dances & Buck and Wing
The Western European culture brought different jigs, reels and
clogs within the movement on the upper body of a tap dancer. The Buck and Wing was a combination of brushing, shuffling, clogs, jigs, reels and hornpipes. The Buck and Wing was the modern of tap dance as a whole. -
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Master Juba
Master Juba was an African-American dancer who was one of the first black performers in the United States to play onstage for white audiences. Master Juda was the only one of that era to tour with a white minstrel group during that time period. -
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Bill Robinson
Bill Robinson was a tap dancer, actor, and singer. He is also the best known and was the highs paid African American entertainer in the United States during the 20th century. Bill career began in the minstrel shows and moved to vaudeville, Broadway theatre, the recording industry, Hollywood films, radio, and television. -
Broadway Tap
Broadway tap is a more of a refined style of tap that
is classified by tap dancers who wearing tuxedos, top hats and canes while they are dancing Broadway tap. -
Buck and Bubbles
Buck and Bubbles were a piano and tap dance due. The duo headlined in vaudeville shows around the country. They also played in major venues. These included Radio City Music Hall and the London Palladium.. -
The Shim-Sham Shimmy
The Shim-Sham Shimmy was a tap dance routine done by Vaudeville dancers. The Shim-Sham Shimmy was also modern tap dance that was the base of the Shim Sham called the time step. -
The Nicholas Brothers
The Nicholas Brothers were a duo of dancing brothers the Nicholas Brothers were considered by many people to be the greatest tap dancers of their time. -
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Gregory Hines
Gregory Hines was dancer, actor, choreographer, and singer. He is also one of the most celebrated tap dancers of all time. Therefore, Gregory is best known for the following Wolfen, The Cotton Club, Running Scared, The Gregory Hines Show, Ben on Will & Grace. Gregory is also known for voicing Big Bill on Nick Jr. animated children's TV show called Little Bill. -
DJ Kool
John W. Bowman Jr. better known by his stage name DJ Kool. DJ Kool is a DJ and rapper who produced several popular rap singles in the late 1980s. -
Savion Glover
Savion Glover is a tap dancer, actor, and choreographer. In 1996
Savion created his most famous work to date called Bring in da Noise, Bring in the Funk. He ended up winning Tony award for the piece. He also did the tap sounds for Mumble the penguin in Happy Feet, as well as co-choreographed the dancing for the film. -
Hoofing & soft-shoe
Hoofing is more of a street style of tapping that focuses more on a complex foot patterns and rhythms and focus less on the upper body of a tap dancer Soft shoe is a style of tap that is done
without the metal pieces on the bottom of tap shoes and soft shoe dancing is often called the Sand Dance. Here a piece of a hoofing dance called
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Jojo Diggs
Jojo Diggs began her dancing career at the age of 22, She was quickly immersed into ballroom dancing and house clubs in Washington, DC. Then about a decade later she founded an organization called Diggs Deeper, which is a therapeutic dance event that centered culture and healing. -
Jade Soul Zuberi
Jade Soul Zuberi was a contestant on season 10 of the hit TV show called So You Think You Can Dance. Jade genre of dance is Animation. Jade ended up withdrew from So You Think You Can Dance due to an injury on July 9, 2013.