- Description
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See Also:
- Copasetics (biography)
- Howard "Sandman" Sims (biography)
- Gregory Hines (biography)
- Charles "Honi" Coles (biography)
- Savion Glover (biography)
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Apollo Theater's Rat-A-Tat-Tap Festival / Savion Glover [concert]
- Title
- Apollo Theater's Rat-A-Tat-Tap Festival [Concert]
- Performers
- Glover, Savion
- Coles, Charles "Honi"
- Hines, Gregory
- Sims, Howard "Sandman"
- Copasetics
- Silver Belles
- Published/Created
- 1990-07-02
- Genre
- Concert
- Venue
- Apollo Theater
- Abstract
- July 2-5, 1990.
Produced by Dancing in the Streets,
The final event in the Dancing in the Street Rat-A-Tat-Tap with Charles Honi Coles as master of ceremonies. Gregory Hines, Savion Glover as soloist and made his debut as an ensemble choreographer with New Tap Generation(s) featuring 20 young dancers from Boston and 8 from Harlem School district 5. Sandman Sims. The Copasetics (James Buster Brown, Louis Sims Carpenter, Charles "Cookie" Cook, Leslie Bubba Gaines, Henry Phace Roberts. The Silver Belles (Harriet Browne, Marion Coles, Elaine Ellis, Cleo Hayes, Hazel Walker Rogers, Bertye Lou Wood. Brenda Bufalino and her American Tap Dance Orchestra (Neil Applebaum, Barbara Duffy, Margaret Morrrison, Robin Tribble, Tony Waag). Manhattan Tap (Heather Cornell, Tony Scopino, Shelley Oliver, Herbin Sweet Pea Cayseele. The Jazz Tap Ensemble (Lynn Dally, Mark Mendonca, Sam Weber). Elise Bernhardt, executive director and producer of "Dancing in the Streets," and Sali Ann Kriegsman, dir. of the National Endowment for the Arts dance program.
(Jack Anderson, "Feet, bringers of thunder: Rat-a-Tat-Tap at Apollo" The New York Times July 5, 1990).
Last Updated: 12-16-2015