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Shoot Me While I'm Happy / Charles "Cookie" Cook [theatrical performance]

Title

Shoot Me While I'm Happy [Theatrical Performance]

Performers

Cook, Charles "Cookie"

Goldberg, Jane

Payne, Jimmy

Coles, Marion

Gaines, Leslie "Bubba"

Published/Created

1979-02-25

Genre

Theatrical Performance

Venue

Dance Theater Workshop

Abstract

Opens in Washington, D.C. early in 1979; them moves to another space, perhaps Dance Theatre Workshop, February 1979. March 4, 1979 plays the Emelin Theatre of the Performing Arts in Mamaroneck, NY, billed as "an evening of traditional and contemporary tap dance" with Jane Goldberg, Charles "Cookie" Cook, Jimmy Payne; Marion Coles added to the show.

Goldberg also choreographs "Shake, Paddle and Roll" and performs "The Neighbor" a poem she recites while tapping; thus beginning her interest in tap-and-word performance.

Videocassette, 12 minutes available from New York Public Library Call # *MGZIC 9-5706. News story Interview with dancers Charles "Cookie" Cook and Jane Goldberg publicizing their performance of "Shoot Me While I am Happy" in Washington D.C. probably in January 1979. The two dance the Bambalina and Cook performs a chair dance.

("The Dance", New York Post February 1979)

Source

New York Public Library: CATNYP: Dance Collection: Tap Dancing. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Gregory Hines Collection of American Tap Dance ().

International Tap Association: On Tap! International Tap Association Newsletter. Also titled ITA Journal. Published by the International Tap Association ().

Last Updated: 12-16-2015