Celebrating National Tap Dance Day, May 25th.
National Tap Dance Day, passed as a law in 1989 in both houses of Congress to celebrate Bojangles Birthday on May 25th every year
Enjoy this clip from from the 1943 film. Stormy Weather.
Preserving and Advancing the Art of Tap Dance.
By Tap Legacy
Celebrating National Tap Dance Day, May 25th.
National Tap Dance Day, passed as a law in 1989 in both houses of Congress to celebrate Bojangles Birthday on May 25th every year
Enjoy this clip from from the 1943 film. Stormy Weather.
By Tap Legacy
Gregory Hines, Co-Founder of the Tap Legacy™ Foundation in the movie TAP 1989.
The ever famous Challenge Scene, Oh What Memories!!! TAP the film is available on DVD at your store, http://www.taplegacystore.com/
Appearing in the Challenge Scene are Tap Masters Gregory Hines, Sammy Davis Jr., Harold Nicholas, Dr. Jimmy Slyde, Howard Sandman Sims, Dr. Bunny Briggs, Steve Condos, Dr. Arthur Duncan, Pat Rico and Dr. Heny LeTang on the Piano.
Tap Dancing at its Best…!!!
By Tap Legacy
Working the cotton fields of SC as a young boy wasn’t 9 to 5, it was can to can’t.
1918 he lost his leg in a cottonseed mill accident, his uncle built him his first Peg Leg.
1920 Peg Leg began dancing in amateur shows in Greenville, SC, in 1926 he joined Eddie Leonard’s Dashing Dinah company.
1928 he joined Blackbirds of 1928 touring revue, from the 1930 – 1940 he toured the United States and Europe.
1950 -1970 appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show over 22 times.
1951 he opened the Peg Leg Bates Country Club in Kerhonkson NY, sold it in 1989 and retired, except for Special appearances.
By Tap Legacy
Gregory Hines, Co-Founder of the Tap Legacy™ Foundation in the 1989 film TAP, The Challenge Scene, Oh What Memories!!!
Come Celebrate Gregory’s Birthday on February 13th (He’s Born Feb. 14,1946) and enjoy the Tap Legacy™ Exhibit
click for details https://taplegacy.org/?p=1257
In the Challenge Scene are Tap Masters Sammy Davis Jr., Harold Nicholas, Dr. Jimmy Slyde, Howard Sandman Sims, Dr. Bunny Briggs, Steve Condos, Dr. Arthur Duncan, Pat RIco and Dr. Heny LeTang on the Piano.
Tap Dancing at its Best…!!!
The film TAP is available at your store, http://www.taplegacystore.com/
By Tap Legacy
To all dancers, dance enthusiasts and tap dancers, join us in celebrating the Birthday of LaVaughn Robinson today 02/09/1927.
A tap Master and National Treasure. with a career span of over 70 years, Robinson began dancing on the streets of Philly, to nightclubs & National and Int’l. tap festivals.
The NEA Awarded him Living National Treasure a National Heritage Fellowship in 1989, a lifetime honor and a 1992 Pew Fellowship in the Arts.
The clip is of LaVaughn Robinson and Tap dance partner Jermaine Ingram performing in Denver CO at the Paramount Theater to Tap Do Wop.
New Emage singers are; Ricardo Rose, Anwar Rose, Tony Williams, Al Williams, Darryl Campbell
By Tap Legacy
To all dancers, dance enthusiasts and tap dancers, join us in celebrating the Birthday of Neil Applebaum today 02/01/??.
Neil was a dance-trained wrestler, of NYC Tapworks trio with Jackie Raven & Clara Hetherington.
The trio performed a varied repertory of traditional tap steps, Latin and jump-rope numbers.
Neil was in the cast as a tap dancer of the Great Performances – TV Series Documentary Tap Dance In America 1989.