- Description
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See Also:
- Leon Collins (biography)
- Bunny Briggs (biography)
- James "Buster" Brown (biography)
- Charles "Honi" Coles (biography)
- Nicholas Brothers (biography)
- Howard "Sandman" Sims (biography)
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Steps in Time: A Tap Dance Festival / Howard "Sandman" Sims [festival]
- Title
- Steps in Time: A Tap Dance Festival [Festival]
- Performers
- Sims, Howard "Sandman"
- Nicholas Brothers
- Collins, Leon
- Coles, Charles "Honi"
- Brown, James "Buster"
- Briggs, Bunny
- Published/Created
- 1979-12-30
- Genre
- Festival
- Venue
- Brooklyn Academy of Music
- Abstract
- A tap dance festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, December 19-30 1979
Artistic Director: Charles "Honi" Coles
"A wildly exciting evening" Kisselgoff;
Jane Goldberg in the program but not mentioned in print.
With Sandman Sims, Leon Collins, Bunny Briggs, Honi Coles, Buster Brown, Ernest Brown, Bubba Gaines, the Nicholas Brothers, The Copasetics (Honi Coles, Bubba Gaines, Charles Cook, Buster Brown, Leroy Myers), Leon Collins, Howard Sandman Sims; Chuck Green.
Jane Goldberg also made an appearance, joining Cook and Coles in two original numbers.
Music by Dizzy Gillespie and scat singer Joe Carroll provide musical accompaniment.
Programs of the performances archived at the New York Public Library.
(Barry Laine, "They're Tapping Today in Brooklyn" New York Times 30 December 1979, D16.; Anna Kisselgoff, "Dance: Tap Festival with Copasetics" New York Times 31 December 1979, C11.; Susan Reiter, "Steps in time" Dance News March 1980, p. 10). - 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