- Description
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See Also:
- Tommy Tune (biography)
- Charles "Cholly" Atkins (biography)
- Charles "Honi" Coles (biography)
- Four Step Brothers (biography)
- Nicholas Brothers (biography)
- John "Bubbles" Sublett (biography)
- Maceo Anderson (biography)
- Copasetics (biography)
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Tap Dancin' / Phil Black [film]
- Title
- Tap Dancin' [Film]
- Performers
- Black, Phil
- Copasetics
- Third Generation Step
- Anderson, Maceo
- Bubbles, John
- Buck and Bubbles
- Nicholas Brothers
- Four Step Brothers
- Richman, Camden
- Coles, Charles "Honi"
- Atkins, Charles "Cholly"
- Jazz Tap Percussion Ensemble
- Published/Created
- 1980-01-01
- Genre
- Film
- Note
- Blackwood Films
- Abstract
- Documentary film produced and directed by Christian Blackwood. Photography by Blackwood, Mead Hunt and Mark Trottenberg. Edited by Jill Godmilow. Released by Blackwood Films, New York City. Interviews wtih Phil Black, Maceo Anderson, John Bubbles, Harold and Fayard Nicholas, Camden Richman, Jerry Ames, Honi Coles, Cholly Atkins, Lon Chaney, Buster Brown, Ralph Brown, and Chuck Green.
The Copasetics, the Nicholas Brothers, Camden Richman and the Jazz Tap Percussion Ensemble (Richman, Lynn Dally and Fred Strickler) shown in performance. Black and white film clips of the Four Step Brothers; Nicholas Brothers, Cholly Atkins and Honi Coles in a slow soft shoe ("Taking a Chance on Love"). Black and white stills of Buck and Bubbles, and the Nicholas Brothers. Phil Black and Maceo Anderson shown teaching tap classes. Discussions and reminiscences centered around the history, style and influences of black tap dancers and the difficulties encountered by them due to discrimination and racism.
Also included series of demonstrations and interviews including: children's tap dance taught by Phil Black; The Copasetics; Third Generation Steps; Maceo Anderson of the Four Step Brothers; Four Step Brothers dance routine; Maceo Anderson demonstration of Buck Dance; film clip of Bojangles; clip of Buck and Bubbles; Nicholas Brothers film clips and dressing room interplay; Coles and Atkins dance to "Doin' the New Lowdown;" and excerpts from the Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection. - 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 ().
- Smith, Ernie: The Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection. The Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History: Archives Center ().
Last Updated: 12-16-2015