Eddie Brown – HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!
To all dancers, dance enthusiasts and tap dancers, join us today 8/7/1918 to celebrate the Birthday of Eddie Brown, born in Omaha, a tap Master and National Treasure, known for creating “Scientific Rhythm”.
Eddie Brown, a dancer who won fame as a master of rhythm tap improvisation and schooled a generation of dancers, kept rhythm tap alive. He mesmerized audiences with his improvisation, spontaneously creating his intricate rhythmically musical steps, when bands played.
Brown was one of fourteen children, he learned tap dance on the street corners, growing up he memorized Bill “Bojangles” Robinson routines, who saw the young teen-aged dancer in Omaha and offered him a job. Originally a flash dancer Brown eventually found a way of incorporating his flash technique and vocabulary into a rhythm tap context. He dubbed the approach Scientific Rhythm.