- Description
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Teddy Hale vs. Baby Laurence Challenge Dance 1950 [challenge dance]
- Title
- Teddy Hale vs. Baby Laurence Challenge Dance 1950 [Challenge Dance]
- Published/Created
- 1950
- Genre
- Challenge Dance
- Abstract
- By the early fifties, Baby Laurence and Teddy Hale were contemporaries and often pitted against each other. Recalling a battle of tap in the summer in the early fifties at the Club Harlem, Duke Ellington trumpeter Ray Nance says "It was the hottest night of the year, and Baby Laurence and Teddy Hale, the sweat pouring off them, fought to a draw." (Nugent in Stearns 350) Nance, a former dancer, could not decide who was better.
- Source
- Stearns, Marshall and Jean Stearns: Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance. New York: Macmillan (1968).
Last Updated: 12-16-2015