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Lost in the Shuffle: An Evening of Jazz Tap Dancing / Charles "Cookie" Cook [concert]

Title

Lost in the Shuffle: An Evening of Jazz Tap Dancing [Concert]

Performers

Cook, Charles "Cookie"

Gaines, Leslie "Bubba"

Goldberg, Jane

Levine, Andrea

Published/Created

1978-06-22

Genre

Concert

Venue

American Dance Festival

Abstract

Performance at Page Auditorium, Duke University, Durham, NC, on June 22, 1978, during the American Dance Festival as part of the American Dance Festival Archival Project.

In its move from Connecticut College in New London, Conn. to Duke University, Durham, NC, American Dance Festival, dir. by Charles Reinhart, announced a mixed roster of modern and ballet companies performing in its new home in Durham, including the tap dance team of Jane Goldberg and Charles Cook.

Performed by Charles "Cookie" Cook, Leslie "Bubba" Gaines, Jane Goldberg and Andrea Levine. Music performed by Jim Roberts (pianist) and Chris Braun (drummer).

Dance numbers include:
"Dancing in the Dark" and "The Tapper Taps" performed by Goldberg --
"What It's About" performed by Gaines and Cook --
"The Tradition Passes On" performed by Cook and Goldberg; includes "Old Man Time" "Let's Be Buddies" "Jitterbug Waltz" "Breezin' Along" (dedicated to Pete Nugent), and "Bambalina" --
"It's about Time" choreographed and performed by Goldberg and Levine --
"I Remember Hanya" (dedicated to Hanya Holm)/danced by Cook --
Bubba Gaines returns:
"Night and Day" / danced by Gaines. Including two skipping rope dances --
"Doing the New Lowdown" (dedicated to Bill Robinson)/danced by Cook, Gaines, Goldberg, and Levine.

(Jack Anderson, "American Dance Festival-- Mecca Has Moved South" New York Times 18 June 1978, D18).

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 ().

Last Updated: 12-16-2015