- Description
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Tap Happenings 1969 / Charles "Chuck" Green [film]
- Title
- Tap Happenings 1969 [Film]
- Performers
- Green, Charles "Chuck"
- Kaalund, Raymond
- Sims, Howard "Sandman"
- Chaney, Lon
- Rhythm Red
- Wilson, Derby
- Published/Created
- 1969-05-12
- Genre
- Film
- Note
- Bert Wheeler Theatre of the Hotel Dixie
- Abstract
- Filmed for the Lena Robbins Film Archive under the supervision of Leticia Jay. Excerpts from a performance on May 12, 1969 at the Bert Wheeler Theatre in Hotel Dixie, New York City. Filmed by Eugene Marner.
Contents: Chuck Green, Raymond Kaalund, Howard Sandman Sims, Green and Sims; Act II competition line introduced by Derby Wilson: Lon Chaney, Sims, Rhythm Red, Green, Jerry Ames, Raymond Kaalund, Jimmy Slyde, and Bert Gibson. Rhythm Red, Kaalund, Gibson, Wilson, Slyde, Green. Finale.
Organized by Chuck Green and Leticia Jay, an East Indian dancer dancer specializing in so-called primitive dance; a friend of Green who had the resources, funds, and producing skills to organize the Tap Happenings as a preservation of rhythm tap dancing.
Excerpts from this Tap Happening event were filmed and can be seen at The Gregory Hines Collection of American Tap Dance:
Chuck Green, Raymond Kaalund, Howard Sandman Sims, Derby Wilson, Lon Chaney, John Shivers, Jerry Ames, Jimmy Slyde, Bert Gibson, Eugene Marner, Leticia Jay. - 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