Preserving and Advancing the Art of Tap Dance.
By Tap Legacy
Gregory Hines, Co-Founder of the Tap Legacy™ Foundation in the 1989 movie TAP“.
The infamous Challenge Scene, Oh the heartfelt Memories!!!
Also 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 it’s Best…!!!
By Tap Legacy
Dr. Bunny Briggs. Tap Master & National Treasure. At 3 he fell in love with tap dance after seeing Bojangles perform at the Lincoln.
Bunny performed with all the Great Bands and was the chosen soloist in Ellington’s Concert of Sacred Music in David Danced Before the Lord,
In 2002 Bunny received an honorary doctorate from OCU.
Bamalam…
By Tap Legacy
Celebrating National Tap Dance Day, May 25th.
Enjoy Dr. Bunny Briggs, in a clip from Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concert of Music dancing to a Ellington’s Come Sunday.
Bunny was Honored at the 1999 Tap Extravaganza® with the Flo-Bert Lifetime Achievement Award.
Also Honored that year was Brenda Bufalino.
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
Watch and listen to Baby Laurence Jackson tap dance at the Hollywood Palace in 1967 with Sammy Davis Jr. as host.
Baby Laurence started performing at age 12 with McKinney’s Cotton Pickers as a Soprano singer.
Later on, living in NYC, and frequenting the Hoofers Club Baby became Teddy Hale’s main rival.
Bunny Briggs once said I saw a fellow dance and his feet never touched the floor, Yes So true…
By Tap Legacy
Enjoy Charles Chuck Green in Caravan.
The clip is from the DVD No Maps On My Taps featuring Charles Chuck Green, Howard Sandman Sims and Bunny Briggs..
This spirited film offers unique insight into jazz tap dancing as an indigenous American art form. The spirit of tap in its heyday, shown in rare photographs and Hollywood film clips of the 1930s, provides a backdrop for intimate portraits of Sandman Sims, Chuck Green and Bunny Briggs.