Africana
Waters, Ethel
performer
Baby and Bobby Goiner
performer
Black Dots (Taylor & Johnson)
performer
Glen and Jenkins
performer
Dancer, Earl
performer
Eddie and Sonny
performer
Theatrical Performance
1927-07-11
Royale Theater
Though she is best remembered for her singing and, late in her career, for her surprisingly warm dramatic acting, a number of reviewers were especially taken by Ethel Waters' eccentric, loose-limbed dancing. The Times was sufficiently impressed with her stepping to hail her as a "dusky Charlottte Greenwood." The Times also fell into line by giving special praise to the dancing in Rang Tang. "First rate dancing is a concomitant of all negro shows" it proclaimed for anyone who by this time didn't know what was expected of black revues. The paper waxed ecstatic about the jungle choreography of "Monkeyland." Dances included black bottom, cakewalk, shimmy, strut, tap dance.
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
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Bordman, Gerald: American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle. New York: Oxford University Press (1992).
Tap Dance America
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