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Abbott and Costello
abolitionism
Abdul, Paula
Abdullaev, Oleko
About Tap (film)
About Time
Academy of Music (New York)
Ackerman, Jack
acrobatics; see also flash
Adams, John
Adderley brothers
Adler, Larry
Africa; dancing in; languages of; origins of jazz in; slaves brought to Americas from; State Department–sponsored tour of
Africana
African Breakdown
Afro-Cuban music and dance
After Midnight
After Seben (film)
Ailey, Alvin
“Ain’t Nothing but a Hoofer”
Airship, Rastus
Alabama
Alabama Kick-up
Alberghetti, Anna Maria
Albert, Kurt
Aleksandrov, Grigoriy
Alexander, Danny
Alexander, Lane
“Alexander’s Ragtime Band”
Alhambra Theatre (Harlem)
Ali, Muhammad
Ali Baba Goes to Town (film)
Alice Adams (film)
“All Black Stars Shine at Night”
All-Colored Vaudeville (film)
Allen, Steve
Allen, Woody
All in Fun
“All I Want to Do, Do, Do Is Dance”
“All Pimps (Coons) Look Alike to Me”
All Star Revue (TV show)
Allyson, June
Alonso, Guillem
Alston Brown, Thomas
Alton, Robert
American Bandstand (TV show)
American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
American Center of Paris
American Clog Dance
American Dance Festival
American in Paris, An (film)
American Landscape (Bufalino)
American Musical Theater (TV show)
American Notes (Dickens)
“American Puppets”
American Revolution
American Tap Dance Center
American Tap Dance Foundation
American Tap Dance Orchestra (ATDO)
Ames, Jerry
Amos ’n’ Andy (radio show)
Amsterdam, Morey
Anchors Aweigh (film)
Anderson, Charles
Anderson, Eddie “Rochester”
Anderson, Maceo
Anna Lucasta (film)
anti-Communism
Anybody Can Get It
“Anything Goes”
Apache Dance
Apollo Theater (Harlem)
Applause
April in Paris (film)
Are You With It? (film)
Argentina
Armstrong, Louis
Armstrong, Mary
Arnaz, Desi
Arnold, Chloé
“Artistry of Jazz Tap, The” (show)
Artists and Models
Art of Buck and Wing Dance Simplified, The (Russell)
Art of Stage Dancing, The (Wayburn)
Ashanti
Ashton, Frederick
Astaire, Adele
Astaire, Fred; autobiography of; blackface number by; on Broadway; films of (see also titles of specific films); Kelly compared with; partners of; television specials of; young dancers influenced by
At Home and Abroad
“At Jolly Coon-ey Island”
Atkins, Cholly
Atkinson, Brooks
Atlantic City (film, 1944)
Audy, Bob
Austin, Mary
Austin (Texas) Soul to Sole Festival
Australia
Aventure du Jazz, L’ (film)
Ayo! (Casel)
Babes in Arms; film based on
Babes on Broadway (film)
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Back Alley Symphony (film)
Bailey, Bill
Bailey, Derek
Bailey, Pearl
Bakebe people
Baker, Chet
Baker, Josephine
Balanchine, George
Bali
ballet; black; in Broadway musicals; comparisons of tap and; in films; tap dancers trained in; tap with elements of; see also names of ballet companies and schools
Ballet Caravan
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Ballets Russes
Ballet Theatre
Balliett, Whitney
Baltimore
“Baltimore Buzz, The”
“Bambalina” routine
Bamboozled (film)
Band Wagon, The
Bankhead, Tallulah
Banks, Ristina
Bantam Twist
Bantu
Baptists
Barbershop Blues (film)
Bare Soundz
Barkleys of Broadway, The (film)
Barnes, Clive
Barnet, Charlie
Barnum, P. T.
Barrand, Tony
Barton, James
Baryshnikov, Mikhail
Barzel, Ann
Basie, Count
Bates, Peg Leg
Battle, Hinton
Battle of the Taps
“Bayadere in Ole Kentuck, La”
“Be a Clown”
Beatles
BeauteeZ’n the Beat
Beauty Shoppe (film)
bebop
Beggar’s Holiday
Beggar’s Opera, The (Gay and Pepusch)
“Begin the Beguine”
Belafonte, Harry
Bell, Nelson B.
Belle of New York, The (film)
Bellson, Louie
Bell Telephone Hour (TV show)
Benchley, Robert
Bennett, Michael
Bennett, Tony
Berkeley, Busby
Berle, Milton
Berlin, Irving
Berlin (Germany); Jazz Festival
Berman, Irving “Peaches”
Berry, Chuck
Berry, Fanny
Berry, James
Berry Brothers
Best, Willie
Beverly Hillbillies, The (TV show)
Beyoncé
Biennale de la Danse de Lyon
big bands; see also names of bands and band leaders
Big Benefit, The (film)
Big Broadcast (film series)
Bijou Theatre (New York)
Bingham, Vincent
Birmingham (Alabama)
Bix Pieces (Tharp)
Black America (“plant” show)
Black and Blue
Black and Tan (film)
Blackbirds
Black Bottom
Black Broadway
blackface; blacks in; in Broadway shows; in films; in other countries; see also minstrelsy; names of characters and performers
Black Harry (fiddler)
Black History Month
Black Network, The (film)
Black Patti’s Troubadours
Black Power
Black Rhythm
Blackwood, Christian
Blake, Eubie
Blakey, Art
Bleis, Klaus
Blizzard, Lizzie
Blue, Jack
Bluegrass Breakdown (Cantwell)
Blue Note (New York)
blues; see also titles of songs
Blue Skies (film)
Blues Project
Blum, Vladimir
B movies
Bogart, Humphrey
Bogle, Donald
Bohemia After Dark (album)
Bojangles (film)
“Bojangles of Harlem”
Bolero (Ravel)
Bolger, Ray
Bone Squash (minstrel show)
Book of Tap, The (Ames and Siegelman)
Boone, Daniel
Bootmen (film)
Borne, Hal
Born to Dance (film)
Borscht Belt, see Catskills
Boston
Bowties
Boxiana (Egan)
Boxmen
Boyfriend, The
Boyle, Johnny
Bracker, Milton
Bradford, Perry
Bradley, Buddy
Bradley, Dee
Brazil
Brazilian Nuts
Break de Chicken’s Neck
breakdowns; see also Virginia breakdowns
“Breakfast in Rhythm”
Brecht, Bertolt
Briggs, Bunny
Bright, Lois
Bright Eyes (film)
Bring in ’da Noise, Bring in ’da Funk
Britain; minstrelsy in; see also London
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
British Pathé
Britt, May
Broadway House Blues (film)
Broadway Melody, The (film)
“Broadway Melody/Broadway Rhythm”
Broadway Melody film series
Broadway Open House (TV show)
Broadway shows, see titles of musicals and revues
Broadway to Hollywood (film)
Brock, Terry
Brodie, Steve
Broken Foot Charley
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Brooklyn Eagle
Brooks, Louise
Brooks, Mel
Broun, Heywood
Brower, Frank
Brown, Anne
Brown, Buster; in Copasetics and Hoofers; films of; Glover and; jams at Swing 46 hosted by; at Newport Jazz Festival; Pops and Louie as inspiration for; television appearances of; in touring shows
Brown, Eddie
Brown, Ernest “Brownie”
Brown, George
Brown, James
Brown, King Rastus
Brown, Ralph
Brown, Ray
Brown, Rudolph
Brown, Stanley
Brown and Beige
Brown Buddies
Browne, Harriet
Brownskin Models
Brubeck, Dave
Bruce, Betty
Brustein, Robert
Bryant, Dan
Bryant, Willie
Bryant’s Minstrels
B.S. Chorus
Bubbles, John; in Broadway shows; dancers influenced by; films of; at Hoofers’ Club; television appearances of; see also Buck and Bubbles
Bubbling Brown Sugar
Buchanan, Jack
Buck and Bubbles
buck and wing, the
Buck Benny Rides Again (film)
Buck Dancers
buck dancing
Buckner, Conrad “Little Buck”
Bufalino, Brenda; see also American Tap Dance Orchestra
Bühne Frei für Marika (film)
Buntline, Ned
Burge, Gregg
Burgess, Bobby
burlesque
Burns, Mae
burnt cork, see blackface
Burton, Miss Clara, and Her Championship Jig
Butlan, Ibn
Butler, General Benjamin
Butler, Jean
“Butter and Egg Man”
Butterbeans and Susie
Butterfly, Roxane
Bye Bye Birdie
By Jupiter
By Request (film)
By Word of Foot
cabaret
Cabaret
Cabin in the Sky (film)
“Cadenza” (Strickler)
Caesar, Julius
Café Metropole (film)
Café Zanzibar (Harlem)
Cage, Nicholas
Cagney, James
cakewalk
California; see also Los Angeles; San Francisco
Call Me Madam (film)
Call Me Mister (film)
Calloway, Cab
calypso
Camera Three (TV show)
Campbell, James
Campbell, James Edwin
Campbell, Sammy
Camptown Hornpipe
Canada
CanTap
Cantata and the Blues (Bufalino)
Cantor, Eddie
Cantwell, Robert
Cape Breton
Capitol Records
Carefree (film)
Caribbean
Carleton, William
Carlyle, Warren
Carmen Jones
Carmichael, Hoagy
Carnegie Hall (New York)
Carnival Night (film)
carnivals
Carolina Blues (film)
Carroll, Bob
Carroll, Noël
Carroll, Richard
Carter, Benny, Orchestra
Carter, Jack
Carter, Katie
Casals, Pablo
Casel, Ayodele
Casino de Paris (New York)
Cassini, Igor
Castle, Nick
Castle, Nick, Jr.
Castle, Vernon and Irene
Cathy, Ernest “Pippy”
Catskills (New York)
Cavalcade of Bands (TV show)
Cavalcade of Stars (TV show)
Cavett, Dick
Ceballos, Larry
Century of Negro Progress Exhibition
Chair-O-Kee (Manhattan Tap)
“Challenge Dance” (minstrel sketch)
challenge dances
Champion, Gower
Champion, Marge
Champion Challenge Clog
Chaney, Lon (dancer)
Chantels
Chapelle, Dave
Chaplin, Charlie
Charisse, Cyd
Charleston (dance)
Charlie’s Angels
Chase, Barrie
Chasing Rainbows (film)
Chatham Theatre (New York)
“Chattanooga Choo Choo”
Chauve-Souris, La
Chevalier, Maurice
Chez Paree (Chicago)
Chicago; dancers from; nightclubs in; theaters in
Chicago
Chicago Human Rhythm Project
Children’s Society
Child Star (Temple)
China
Chinese-Americans
Chivers, John “Rhythm Red”
Chocolate Dandies, The
Chocolateers
Chocolate Kiddies
Chopin, Frédéric
Chorus Line, A
chorus lines; in films; in nightclubs
Christy Minstrels
Chuck and Chuckles
Church, George
Circus
circuses
Ciro’s (Los Angeles)
Cirque du Soleil
City Center (New York)
Civil War
Clapping Music (Reich)
Clark, Sam
Clark Brothers
class acts
Classical Savion
Cleftones
Clemente, Frankie
Clinton, Bill
Clog Dancing Made Easy (Tucker)
clogging; see also Lancashire clogging
Clogging Campbell
Club Alabam (Los Angeles)
Club Alabam (New York)
Club Checkerboard (TV show)
Club DeLisa (Chicago)
Club Harlem (Atlanta)
Club Plantation (Detroit)
Club 666 (Detroit)
Coccia, Aurelio
Cochran, Charles B.
Cohan, George M.
Cole, Bob
Cole, Jack
Cole, Nat King
Coles, Honi; in Broadway shows; Bufalino and; in Copasetics; at dance festivals; death of; in films; Hines’s respect for; at Hoofers’ Club; Philadelphia childhood and youth of; as teacher; television appearances of
Coles, Marion
Colgate Comedy Hour, The (TV show)
Colleen (film)
College Holiday (film)
Collins, Leon
Colorado Dance Festival
Colored Museum, The (Wolfe)
Colored Vaudeville Comedy Club; see also Hoofers’ Club
Coltrane, John
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
Columbia Pictures
Columbia Records
Columbia Theatre (New York)
“Come Sunday” (Ellington)
Comin’ Uptown
Como, Perry
Company
competitive dancing, see challenge dances
Complete Dancing Instructions for Light and Heavy, Genteel and Plantation Songs and Dances (manual)
Concert of Jazz Dance Theater
“Concerto in Taps” (Laurence)
Condos, Frank
Condos, Steve
Condos Brothers
Coney Island (film)
Conglomerations (Coles)
Congo
Congress, U.S.
Conn and Mann
Connie’s Inn (Harlem); move downtown of
Connolly, Bobby
Conrad, Gail
Conyers, John
Cook, Cookie
Cook, Will Marion
coon songs
Cooper, George W.
Cooper, James Fenimore
Cooper, Ralph
Copacabana (New York)
Copa City (Miami)
Copasetics
Copland, Aaron
Coppola, Francis Ford
Cornell, Heather
Corn Husking Jig
Coronado (film)
Cosby, Bill
Cosby Show, The (TV show)
Costello, Johnny “Irish”
Cotton Club (Harlem); challenge dances at; chorus girls at; downtown relocation of; film about; night clubs in other cities named after; segregation at
Covan, Willie
Cover Girl (film)
Coy, Johnny
Coyne, Jeanne
Crabtree, Lotta
Crane, Louise
Crasson, Hannah
Crawford, Joan
“Crazy Feet”
Crazy Horse (film)
Crazy Tap Jam
Croce, Arlene
Crockett, Davy
Croker, Thomas
Cromer, Harold
Crosby, Bing
Cruickshank, George
Crystals
Cuba; see also Afro-Cuban music and dancing
Culp, Robert
Cummings, E. E.
Cunneen, Jamie
Cunningham, George
Cunningham, Merce
Curley McDimple
Curly Top (film)
Cutout and Leonard
Dahdah, Robert
Dailey, Dan
Dally, Lynn
Daly, Lucy
D’Amato, Alfonse
Dames
Dames at Sea
Dance Craft (New York)
Dance Encyclopedia, The (Little)
Dancer, Earl
Dance Theatre of Harlem
Dance Umbrella
Danceworks
Dancin’
Dancing Darkey Boy, The (film)
“Dancing for Eels, 1820 Catharine Market” (drawing)
Dancing in the Streets
Dancing Lady (film)
dancing masters
Dancing Masters of America
Dandridge, Dorothy
Daniel, Jeffrey
Daniels, Danny
DaPron, Louis
Darktown Follies
Darktown Scandals (film)
Das, Pandit Chitresh
Dashin’ Dinah (road show)
“Daughter of Rosie O’Grady, The”
“David Danced Before the Lord” (Ellington)
Davis, Angela
Davis, Charlie
Davis, Marshall, Jr.
Davis, Miles
Davis, Sammy, Jr.
Davis, Sammy, Sr.
Davis, Toots
Dawson, Nancy
Day, Doris
Deal of the Century (film)
Dean, Dora
Deanna’s (New York)
“De Boatmen Dance”
Deep Harlem (Whitney)
de Falla, Manuel
Dehn, Mura
Delacorte Theater (New York)
Delehanty and Hengler
Delroy, Irene
de Mille, Agnes
DeMille, Cecil B.
Denby, Edwin
Denmark
Depression
Desio, Alfred
Detroit
Devine, James
De Voe, Colonel Thomas
DeVoo, Frederick
Dew Drop Inn
Dewey, Thomas
Diaghilev, Serge
Diamond, Frank
Diamond, John
Dickens, Charles
Dickie Wells’s Theatrical Grill (Harlem)
Dietrich, Marlene
Dietz, Howard
Diller, Phyllis
DiMaggio, Joe
Dimples (film)
Dinah
Diplomat (Miami)
Dixiana (film)
“Dixie”
Dixie on Parade
Dixie to Broadway
Dixon, George Washington
Dixon, Harland
Dixon, Lee
Dodge, Mabel
“Doin’ the New Low Down”
Dolphy, Eric
Donahue, Jack
Donen, Stanley
Don’t Gamble with Love (film)
Dorrance, Michelle
Dorsey Brothers
Dotson, Clarence “Dancing”
Double Around the World with No Hands
Double Deal (film)
Double Over the Tops
double shuffle
double trouble
Douglas, Louis
Douglas, Mike
Douglass, Frederick
Douglass, Suzanne
Down Argentine Way (film)
“Down Dere” (show)
Downs, Johnny
Doyle, Jimmy
Draper, Muriel
Draper, Paul
Draper, Ruth
Drayton, Thaddeus
Drifters
Drummin’ Two Deep
Drum Thunder (Sohl-Donnell)
Drunken Peasant
Du Barry Was a Lady (film)
Dubois, Sylvia
Du Bois, W.E.B.
Duchess of Idaho (film)
Duffy, Barbara
Duffy’s Tavern (film)
Duke Is Tops (film)
Dunbar, Dixie
Duncan, Arthur
Duncan, Isadora
Duncan, Todd
Dunham, Katherine
Dunhills
Dunn, Robert
Dunne, Colin
Dunning, Jennifer
Duquesnay, Ann
Durante, Jimmy
Dutch
Dyer, Sammy
Eagle Rock
Earl Carroll’s Vanities
Earle Theatre (Philadelphia)
Early to Bed
Easter Parade (film)
East-West Dance Group
Ebony magazine
Ebsen, Buddy
Ebsen, Velma
eccentric dancing; see also grotesque dancing
Eckstine, Billy
Eddie Condon Floor Show (TV show)
Edison studios
Edwards, Edith “Baby”
Edwards Sisters
Egan, Pierce
Egypt
81 Theatre (Atlanta)
Einbrecher (film)
El Fey (New York)
Eliot, T. S.
Ellington, Duke
Ellison, Ralph
Elssler, Fanny
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Emmett, Daniel
Emmy Awards
Emperor Jones (film)
Empire Room (New York)
Encyclopedia of Black Humor (Foxx)
England, see Britain
Ephram, Bobby
Equiano, Olaudah
Eri, Chiemi
Eric B. & Rakim
Errol, Leon
Essence of Old Virginia
Estonia
Ethiopia
Ethiopian Serenaders
Eubie!
Europe; high culture of; see also specific countries and cities
Europe, James Reese
Eurovision Song Contest
“Everybody’s Doing It Now”
“Everybody Tap”
Evelyn, Edwina “Salt”
Evening with Fred Astaire, An (TV show)
Evergreen (film)
Evergreens Cemetery, New York City
Everleigh, Robert
Evolution of the Blues
Exile, The (film)
“Fabulous Feet”
Fagan, Barney
Fairbanks, Douglas
Faison, George
Faith of Our Children (TV show)
Falling Off a Log
Fancy Free (ballet)
“Fascinating Rhythm”
Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
Faye, Alice
Fazil’s (New York)
Feet of Flames
Feldman, Anita
Felix, Seymour
“Festival Dance (Original)”
Fetchit, Stepin
Field, Ron
Fights of Nations (film)
Finale Club (Los Angeles)
Fink, Mike
Finland
First Tap Company
First World War
Fish (dance)
Fishgall, Gary
“Fisticuffs” routine
Fitzgerald, Ella
Fitzhugh, Louise
Five Blazers
Five Hot Shots
Five Kellys
Five Points
flamenco
flash
Flatley, Michael
Fletcher, Tom
“Flight of the Bumblebee”
Florida
Florida Blossoms
Flying Down to Rio (film)
Flying Turtles (Bufalino)
Fokine, Michel
Folies Bergères (Paris)
Follies
Follow the Fleet (film)
Footlight Parade (film)
Ford, Glenn
Ford, “Schoolboy” Eddie
Foreman, Richard
Forever Your Girl (album)
Forkins, Marty
For Me and My Gal (film)
Forrest, John
Forsyne, Friendless George
Forsyne, Ida
42nd Street (film); musical based on
Fosse, Bob
Foster, David
Foster, Stephen
Foster, William
Fountain Inn (South Carolina)
Four Bobs
Four Buds
Four Cohans
Four Covans
Four Flash Devils
Four Fords
Four Star Revue (TV show)
Four Step Brothers
Fox Films, see Twentieth Century–Fox
Foxx, Redd
Foy, Eddie
France; see also Paris
Frank, Rusty
Franklin, Miriam
Frau Meiner Träume, Die (film)
Frazier, Teddy
Fred and Sledge
Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book, The (Croce)
free blacks
Frost, Robert
Fugue, The (dance)
Fujibayashi, Mari
Funk University
Funny Face
“Future of Music, The” (Rosen)
Gaelic
Gaines, Leslie “Bubba”
Gaines, Reg E.
Gaines, Will
Gang’s All Here, The
Gang War (film)
Gardner, Chappy
Garland, Judy
Gay Divorce
Gay Divorcee, The (film)
Gaye, Marvin
Gaynor, Mitzi
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
George White’s Scandals; films based on
Georgia
Georgia Minstrels
Georgia Slave Brothers
Gere, Richard
Germans
Germany
Gershwin, George
Gertrude Hoffman Girls
Gertrude’s Nose, a Tap Dance Oratorio (Bufalino)
Get Hep to Love (film)
Ghostbusters (film)
Gibbs, Wolcott
Gibson, Albert “Gip”
Giddins, Gary
Gilbert and Sullivan
Gillespie, Dizzy
Gilliat, Sy
Giouba tribe
Girl Crazy (film)
“Girl Hunt Ballet”
Girl in Pink Tights, The
Give a Girl a Break (film)
“Give My Regards to Broadway”
Glaser, Joe
Glass, Philip
Gleason, Bertha
Gleason, Jackie
Gleason, John
Glenn, Willie
Glorifying the American Girl (film)
Glover, Cyd
Glover, Savion
Glover, Yvette
Godbolt, Jimmy
Godfather, The (film)
Goebbels, Joseph
“Goin’ to Heaven on a Mule”
Gola people
Goldberg, Jack
Goldberg, Jane
Gold Diggers film series
Gold Diggers of Broadway (film)
Golden Boy
Goldwyn, Sam
Goldwyn Girls
Gonzales, Babs
Goodman, Benny
Good News
Goofus
Gordon, Dexter
Gordon, William “Red”
“Got a Bran’ New Suit”
“Gotta Go Tap Dancing Tonight”
Gould, Jack
Gould, Morton
Go ’Way Sugar Yo’ Done Los’ de Tas
Grable, Betty
Graham, Martha
Grand Ole Opry
Grand Theatre (Chicago)
Grand Trial Dances
Grandy, Charles
Grant, Cary
Grant, Derick
Grauer, Rhoda
Gray, Acia
Gray, Edward “Boston Rattler”
Gray, Gilda
Gray, Wardell
Great American Broadcast, The (film)
Great Feats of Feet (film)
Great Performances: Dance in America (TV show)
Great War, see First World War
Great Ziegfeld, The (film)
Greece
Green, Chuck (Christopher Samuel Columbus Green)
Green, Jim “the Human Top”
Green, Sammy
Green, Walter
Greenlee, Rufus
Greenwich Village (film)
Greenwich Village Follies
Gregory, Dick
Grimes, Jared
Grizzly Bear
“Groove” (Hines)
grotesque dancing; see also eccentric dancing
Groundhog
Guinan, Texas
Guinea
Gumbo, Pete
“Gumbo Chaff”
“Gumbo Hump” (Cornell)
Gusakov Brothers
Hagen, Jean
“Haitian Fight Song” (Mingus)
Hajdu, David
Hale, Teddy
“‘Half of It Dearie’ Blues”
Hallelujah! (film)
Hammerstein, Oscar
Hammerstein, Oscar, II
Hammerstein’s Roof Garden (New York)
Hampton, Lionel
Handel, George Frideric
Handy, W. C.
Haney, Carol
Haney, William John
“Happy Days Are Here Again”
Happy Feet (film)
Happy Hours Company
Happy Landing (film)
“Happy Uncle Tom” (sketch)
Harlem; nightclubs in (see also Cotton Club); theaters in (see also Apollo Theater); see also Hoofers’ Club
Harlem Highlanders
Harlem Hips
Harlem Is Heaven (film)
Harlem Renaissance
Harold Teen (film)
Harper, Herbert
Harper, Leonard
Harper, Steven
Harrigan and Hart
Harrington, Frank
Harris Theater (Chicago)
Hart, Lorenz
Hatchett, Frank
Haverly’s Minstrels
Hawaii
Hawkins, Coleman
Hayward, Zab
Hayworth, Rita
Healy, Dan
Hearn, Lafcadio
Hearts of Dixie (film)
Heatherington, Clara “CB”
Height, Bob
Hellmut, Hellmut H.
Hello, Dolly!; film version of
Helms, Jesse
Helsinki
Henderson, Fletcher
Hendricks, Jon
Henie, Sonja
Hepburn, Katharine
Here Come the Girls (film)
“Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush”
Herman, Woody
Herskovits, Melville
Hesselink, Ray
Hexa (Feldman)
Hey, Rookie (film)
Hi, Buddy (film)
Hi, Good Lookin’ (film)
Hicks, Lonnie
Hideboh
Hi-De-Ho (film)
“High Hat”
High School Hoofer, A (film)
High Speed (road show)
Higuchi, Hideyuki
Hilberman, Josh
Hill, Constance Valis
Hill, Dulé
Hill, J. Leubrie
Hill, Joan
Hillman, George
Hines, Alma
Hines, Earl
Hines, Gregory; in Broadway shows; death of; films of; TV special of
Hines, Maurice
Hines, Maurice, Sr.
hip-hop
Hiss, Alger
History of the World, Part I (film)
Hitler, Adolf
Hit Parade of 1943 (film)
“Hittin’ the Bottle” routine
Hoctor, Harriet
Hogan, Ernest
Holder, Roland
Holiday Inn (film)
Holland, Showboy
Holloway, Joan
Hollywood Palace, The (TV show)
Holm, Hanya
Honeymoon Lodge (film)
Honolulu (film)
Hoofers
Hoofers, The
Hoofers’ Club (Harlem)
Hooferz Club (album)
Hooker, Dynamite
Hooray for Love (film)
Hoover, J. Edgar
Hope, Bob
Hori, George
Horn and Hardart Children’s Hour (radio show)
Horne, Lena
hornpipes
Horsey, Chick
Hot Chocolates
Hot Feet Boys
Hot Five recordings
Hot Mikado, The
Hot Rhythm
Howard Athenæum (Boston)
How It Was (Morgan)
Hudson, James “Hutch”
Hughes, Langston
Hughes, Rupert
Hurston, Zora Neale
Hurtig and Seamon’s Theatre (Harlem)
Hutton, Betty
“I Can Do That”
Ice Follies
Iceman Cometh, The (O’Neill)
“I’d Rather Lead a Band”
“I Got Rhythm”
“I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead, You Rascal You”
“I’ll Be Hard to Handle”
Illinois, see Chicago
Imagine Tap
Imel, Jack
Improvography (touring concert)
In and Out (film)
India
India Jazz Suites (tour concert)
Indiana
Ingram, Germaine
Ink Spots
In Old Kentucky; film version of
Institute of Jazz Studies
International Festival of Tip Tap
International Tap Association (ITA)
Interplay (Jazz Tap Ensemble)
In the Navy (film)
Invitation to a Dance (Glover)
Invitation to the Dance (film)
Irene
Irish Dancing Commission
Irish/Irish-Americans; in minstrel shows; and origins of tap; in vaudeville; see also Bolger, Ray; Kelly, Gene; Riverdance
Irving, Washington
“Isn’t It a Lovely Day”
I Spy (TV show)
It Ain’t Hay (film)
It Happened in Harlem (film)
It’s About Time (show)
It’s Always Fair Weather (film)
It’s a Wonderful Life (film)
Ivashkevich, Alexander
Ivory Coast
Iwahori, Chikako
“I Want to Be a Minstrel Man”
“I Want to Be Happy”
“I Wish I Were in Love Again”
“I Won’t Dance”
Jack Blue School of Rhythm and Taps
Jackson, J. Calvin
Jackson, Jigsaw
Jackson, L. D.
Jackson, Michael
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Center and Festival
Jamaica
James, Ed
James, Freddie
James, Henry
Jam Session (film)
Japan
Jay, Leticia
jazz; in Asia; in Brazil; in Broadway shows; in Europe; festivals in films; free; history of; improvisation in; in Las Vegas; in minstrel shows; modern; in nightclubs; recordings of; on television; in touring shows; women in; see also bebop; big bands; swing; names of musicians
Jazz at Lincoln Center
jazz dance; see also Jazz Tap Ensemble
Jazz Dance (Stearns)
Jazz Messengers
Jazz Museum (New York)
Jazz Singer, The (film)
Jazz Tap Ensemble
Jealousy (film)
Jefferson, Randolph
Jefferson, Thomas
Jelly’s Last Jam
Jenkins, Charles
Jews
Jig and Club Dancing Without a Master (manual)
Jig, Clog, and Breakdown Dancing Made Easy (James)
jig piano, see ragtime
jigs; Irish; in minstrel shows; of slaves
“Jig Time”
“Jim Along Josey”
Jim Crow (minstrel character)
Jim Crow segregation
Jivin’ in Bebop (film)
Jivin’ Jacks and Jills
Jobson, Richard
Joffrey Ballet
Johns, Herbert
Johnson, Bobby
Johnson, Charles
Johnson, Foster
Johnson, Frank
Johnson, James P.
Johnson, James Weldon
Johnson, Sylvester “Happy”
“Joint 2 Joint”
Jolly Fellows, The
Jolly Old Uncle Buck
Jolson, Al
Jones, Bessie
Jones, Jo
Jones, Kendrick, II
Jones, Philly Joe
Jonsing, Sam
Jordan, Bert
Joseph, Willie
Jowitt, Deborah
Joyce Theater (New York)
juba; patting
Juba
Juba, King of Numidia
Jubilation and Nice
Jump for Joy
“Jump Jim Crow”
Jungle Stomp
Just Around the Corner (film)
Kaalund, Raymund
Kael, Pauline
Kahn, Stan
Kansas
Karneval der Liebe (film)
Kawahata, Alice Fumiko
Kaye, Danny
Keeler, Ruby
Keith-Albee circuit
Kelly, Fred
Kelly, Gene
Kelly and Ryan
Kelly Brothers
Kelly’s Stables (New York)
Kempe, William
Kennedy, Paul and Arlene
Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.)
Kentucky
Kern, Jerome
Kerr, Walter
Kersands, Billy
Kidd, Michael
Kid Millions (film)
Ki-kongo
Killer Diller (film)
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
King and King
King for a Day (film)
King of Burlesque (film)
Kirn, Marda
Kirsanov, Vladimir
Kirstein, Lincoln
Kisselgoff, Anna
Kitchen Ball at White Sulphur Springs, Virginia (Mayr)
Kiss Me, Kate; film version of
Klein, Alvin
Knight, Gladys, and the Pips
Knight Is Young, The (film)
“Knock Jim Crow”
Kodish, Deborah
Kongo people
Korea
Kourlas, Gia
Kracauer, Siegfried
Kraft Music Hall (TV show)
Kramer, Katherine
Kriegsman, Sali Ann
Krueger, Lorraine
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Kumagai, Kazu
Künneke, Eduard and Evelyn
Kunzel, Erich
Kusell, Maurice
Kushner-Gusakov, Michael
La Cave (New York)
Lady, Be Good!; film version of
Lafayette Theatre (Harlem)
Lahrmann, Carmen
Lancashire clogging
Landings (Feldman)
Lane, Horace
Lane, Jennifer
Lane, Lovey
Lane, Marjorie
Lane, William Henry, see Juba
Lanier, Sidney
Laniyan, Junior
LaRedd, Cora
Larkin, Milton
Last Minstrel Show, The
Las Vegas
Latin Quarter (New York)
Laurence, Baby
Law, Evelyn
Lay of the Scottish Fiddle (Paulding)
Leach, Al
Le Corbusier
Leder, Jan
Lee, Mable
Lee, Sammy
Lee, Spike
LeGon, Jeni
Leichte Kavallerie (film)
Lemons, Eddie
Leonard, Eddie
Leonard and Crackaloo
Lerman, Michela Marino
LeRoy, Hal
Les Girls (film)
Leslie, Lew
LeTang, Henry
“Let’s Be Buddies”
Let’s Dance (film)
Let’s Go Places (film)
“Let Yourself Go”
Levant, Oscar
Levine, Andrea
Levinson, André
Levy, Ted
Lewis, Jerry
Lewis, Ted
Lewis, Theophilus
Lewitsky, Bella
Lido (Paris)
Liebe, Tanz und 1000 Schlager (film)
Life in London (Egan)
Lightfoot, Eddie “Peg”
Lincoln, Abbey
Lincoln, Abraham
Lincoln Theater (Harlem)
Lindy Hop
Littell, Robert
Little, Dick
Little, Elsie
Little Colonel, The (film)
Little Coon Band
Little Nelly Kelly
Little Old Folks
Littlest Rebel, The (film)
Liza
Locke, Alain
Loew’s State Theatre (New York)
Lombard, Martin and Facundo
London
Long, Avon
Long Island
Long Island breakdowns
Look for the Silver Lining (film)
Lord of the Dance (touring show)
Los Angeles; Tap Fest
Louis, Joe
Louisiana; see also New Orleans
Louisiana Purchase
Louisiana Toe-and-Heel
Lowe, Uncle Jim
Lucas, Sam
Lucky Sambo
Lucky Seven Trio
“Lucy Long”
Ludlow, Noah
Luke, Sylvester
“Lullaby of Broadway”
Lunceford, Jimmie
Lyell, Charles
Lyles, Aubrey
Lymon, Frankie
Lynch, Frank
Lynch, Ray
lynching
Lyons, Carnell
Mabley, Moms
Mablin, Harold
Mabou Mines
Macaulay, Alastair
Macdonald, Flash
MacDonald, Ray
Mack and Mabel
Mackey Twins
Madison, Louise
Madison Square Garden (New York City)
Madonna
Mahoney, Billie
Maine
“Make ’Em Laugh”
Malcolm X
Malone, Jacqui
Malone, Ray
Mame
Manhattan Tap
Mann, Traci
Manners, Bernard
Manning, Frankie
Mantle, Burns
Mantle, Mickey
March of Time, The (film)
Markert, Russell
Market Book (De Voe)
Markham, Dewey “Pigmeat”
Marshall, Arthur
Marshall, Kathleen
Martha and the Vandellas
Martin, Dean
Martin, John
Martinique
Maryland; see also Baltimore
Mashed Potato
Massachusetts; see also Boston
Mastin, Will
Matthews, Jessie
Maxie Fords
Mayer, Louis B.
Mayr, Christian
Mays, Harry
McClure, Emmet
McCree, Maxie
McCullough, Hester
McDonald, Ray
McIntyre and Heath
McKelway, St. Clair
McKinley, William
McKinney, Nina Mae
McPhee, John T.
“Me and My Shadow”
Meglin, Ethel
“Memories of You”
Memphis Bound
Mendelssohn, Felix
Mendonca, Mark
Mentone Studio
Mercury Theatre (New York)
Merman, Ethel
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Mexican-American War
Michael’s (New York)
Michaels, Bert
Micheaux, Oscar
Michigan, see Detroit
Mickey Mouse Club, The (TV show)
Middle Passage
Midnight Steppers
Miller, Ann
Miller, Danny
Miller, Duquesne “Duke”
Miller, Flournoy
Miller, George
Miller, Glenn
Miller, Irvin C.
Miller, Marilyn
Miller Brothers
Mills, Florence
Mills, “Hardfoot” Maud
Mingus, Charles
Minnelli, Vincente
Minskoff Theatre (New York)
Minstrel Misses
minstrelsy; black; in Broadway shows; female; in films; in other countries; on television; see also blackface; names of troupes
Minton’s Playhouse (Harlem)
Miranda, Carmen
Mississippi
Missouri; see also St. Louis
Missouri Rockets
“Mr. Bojangles”
Mr. Wonderful
Mistinguett
Mitchell, Arthur
Mitchell, Deborah
Mitchell, Jerry
Mitchell, Jimmy
Mitchell, Julian
Mobile Buck
modern dance
Moiseyev Dance Company
Moke and Poke
Monaghan, Terry
Monahan, Jimmy
Monday Night Football (TV show)
Monk, Thelonious
Monroe, Marilyn
Montana
Montgomery, David
Moondog
Moonglows
Moon over Miami (film)
Moonwalk
Mordden, Ethan
Mordecai, Jimmy
Mordecai, Samuel
Morgan, Julia
Morrison, Ernest “Sunshine Sammy”
Morton, Jelly Roll; see also Jelly’s Last Jam
Mosconi Brothers
Moscow Tap Parade
Moses, Robert
“Moses Supposes”
Motown Records
Moulin Rouge (Las Vegas)
Mountbatten, Lady
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
MTV
Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare)
Mulrooney, Edward
Muñequitos de Matanzas, Los
Murphy, Fred
Murphy, George
Murray, Arthur
Murray, Ken
Murray, Mike
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
musical comedy; see also titles of Broadway shows and movies
Music at Midnight (Draper)
“Music Makes Me”
Mussolini, Benito
My American Wife (film)
Myers, Leroy
My Friend from Kentucky (touring show)
My One and Only
My People (pageant)
My Sister Eileen (film)
Mysteries and Miseries of New York (Buntline)
Myth of the Negro Past, The (Herskovits)
Nakagawa, Saburo
Nakano Brothers
“Natchez Under the Hill”
Nathan, George Jean
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
National Council for American-Soviet Friendship
National Council of Churches
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
National Symphony
National Tap Dance Company of Canada
National Vaudeville Association
Native Americans
Nazarro, Nat
Nazis
Nealy, Frances
Nebraska
Needham and Kelly
“Needle in a Haystack, A”
Negerball (film)
Negro Ballet
Negro Election Day
Nelson, Daybreak
Nelson, Gene
Nemr, Andrew
Nevada, see Las Vegas
Nevretdinov, Konstantin
New Amsterdam Theatre (New York)
Newcomb, Billy
Newcomb, Bobby
New Faces of 1937 (film)
New Gap Generation(s) (Glover)
New Jersey
New Negro, The (Locke)
New Orleans
Newport Jazz Festival
New Wave
New York As It Is (play)
New York by Gas-Light (city guide)
New York City; Broadway shows in, see titles of musicals and revues; Catharine Market; dance schools and studios in (see also names of tap dance teachers); Five Points; minstrelsy in; nightclubs in (see also Swing 46); slaves in; tap festivals in; theaters and concert halls in (see also Palace Theatre); vaudeville in; see also Harlem
New York City Ballet
New York Public Library
New York State; see also Catskills
New York State Council on the Arts
New Zealand
Nicholas, Fayard; see also Nicholas Brothers
Nicholas, Harold; see also Nicholas Brothers
Nicholas Brothers; in Broadway shows; at Cotton Club; films of; in Las Vegas; television appearances of
Nicholaw, Casey
Nichols, Thomas Low
Nielsen Company
Niemandsland (film)
Nierenberg, George T.
Nigger Mike’s (New York)
“Night and Day”
nightclubs; see also names of nightclubs
Nijinska, Bronislava
Nijinsky, Vaslav
92nd Street Y (New York)
Nip, Tom
Nippon Gejiko Theater (Tokyo)
Nit, Johnny
Nixon, Richard
Njeri, Itabari
Nobody’s Family Is Going to Change (Fitzhugh)
No Maps on My Taps
No, No, Nanette
North Carolina
North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble
Northrup, Solomon
Not Your Ordinary Tappers
Nugent, Pete
Nugent, Richard Bruce
Numidia
Nusantara (Sohl-Donnell)
Oakie, Jack
Ocean’s Eleven (film)
O’Connor, Donald
O’Connor, Patrick
O’Dea, Sunnie
O’Dwyer, William
O’Hara, John
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oklahoma!
“Old Folks at Home”
Old Man Shuffle
Old Plantation, The (painting)
Old Virginny breakdown
Oliver, Shelley
Oliver, Sy
Olmsted, Frederick
Olvera, Mateo
Om (Glover)
Omnibus (TV show)
“Once in Love with Amy”
O’Neachtain, Seosamh
“One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)”
O’Neil, Kitty
One Man Dance
One Sixth of the World (film)
1000 Years of Jazz
On with the Show (film)
On Stage Everybody (film)
On the Town; film version of
Ontological-Hysteric Theater
On Your Toes
Onyx Club (New York)
Orchestra Hall (Chicago)
Orchestra Wives (film)
Oregon
Orezzoli, Héctor
Orlova, Lyubov
Orlowski, William
Ormonde, Jimmy
“Ornithology”
Orpheum circuit
“Our Gang” film series
Over Excited
Over the Top
Over the Tops
Oyster Man, The (road show)
Paar, Jack
paddle and roll
Paige, Janis
Palace Theatre (New York)
Pal Joey
Palladium (New York)
Palmer, Aaron
Pan, Hermes
Panama Hattie (film)
Panassié, Hugues and Louis
Pandemonium (album)
Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Theatre (New York)
Pardon My Sarong (film)
Paris
Parker, Charlie
Parkman, Francis
Parsons, Louella
Passing Show, The
Pastor, Tony
Patricola, Tom
Patterson and Jackson
Paulding, James Kirke
Payne, Jimmy
Peckin’ dance
Peel, Matt
Pelham, Richard
Pell’s Ethiopian Minstrels
Pen and Ink
Pennies from Heaven (film)
Pennington, Ann
Pennsylvania; see also Philadelphia; Pittsburgh
Pepys, Samuel
percussive dance
Perlman, Itzhak
Perry, Commodore
Perry, Dein
Persian Room (New York)
Pete, Peaches, and Duke
Peter Pan Kiddies School (Harlem)
Peters, Michael
Peterson, Oscar
Petronio, Leela
Petronio, Sarah
“Petting in the Park”
Philadelphia; theaters in
Philadelphia Folklore Project
Phillips, Mattie, and Her Jungle Kids
Piano (tap dancer)
pickaninnies
Pickaninny Dance, The (film)
“Pickanninny Nig”
picture dancing
Picture Palace (film)
Pie, Pie Blackbird (film)
Pierce, Billy
pigeon wing
Pinheiro, Valéria
Pinkster
Pippin
Pin Up Girl (film)
Pirate, The (film)
Piru Bole (Sohl-Donnell)
“Piss on the Grass”
Pitts, Juanita and Leroy
Pittsburgh
Plantation Club (Baltimore)
Plantation Club (Hollywood)
Plantation Club (New York)
“Plantation Dance (Original)”
“Plantation Niggas of the South”
Plantation Revue
Poe, Edgar Allan
“Poet and Peasant Overture” (von Suppé)
Polgar, Alfred
“Political Speech,” (Draper)
Pollak, Max
Pollock, Emma
Poor Little Rich Girl (film)
“Pop Goes the Weasel”
Pops and Louie
Porgy and Bess; film version of
Porter, Cole
Porter, Naomi
Porter, Van “The Man”
“Post-Partum Blues”
Pot, Pan, and Skillet
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.
Powell, Bud
Powell, Dick
Powell, Eleanor
Pratt, Tina
Presley, Elvis
Preston, Luther and Lucille
“Pretty as a Picture”
Price, Joe
Primrose, George
Primrose and West
Prince
Princess Wee Wee
Priorities of 1942
Prisoner of Swing, The (film)
Private Lessons (film)
Progressive Minstrels
Prohibition
Public Broadcasting System (PBS)
Public Enemy
Public Jitterbug #1 (film)
Public Theater
Puff Daddy
Pull It
Purcell, Henry
Purple Manor (Harlem)
Push Comes to Shove (Tharp)
Put and Take
“Puttin’ on the Ritz”
Queen, Charlie
“Quitting Time”
Rabbit Hop
Rabbit’s Foot Company
Radio City Music Hall (New York)
Raff, Pamela
ragtime (jig piano)
Rainer, Yvonne
Rall, Tommy
Rand, Ayn
rap
Rappin & Tappin (album)
Rastus, Joe
Rat Pack
Raven, Jackie
“Raven, The” (Poe)
Ravenal, Henry
Rawlins, Jimmy
Ray, Tiny
Razzle Dazzle Scintillators
Ready, Willing, and Able (film)
Real Deal, The (Glover)
Real Tap Skills
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (film)
Reckless Age (film)
Rector, Eddie
Rector, Grace
Red and Struggy
Redman, Don
Red Peppers
Reed, Dave
Reed, Leonard
Reich, Steve
Reichstheaterkammer
Reisenweber’s cabaret (New York)
Remington, Mayme, and Her Picks
Rent
Republic Pictures
Reveille with Beverly (film)
Revue Nègre, La
revues; see also titles of Broadway shows
Revueltas, Silvestre
Rexford Hotel (Boston)
Reynolds, Debbie
Rhapsody in Black
Rhapsody in Taps
Rhode Island; see also Newport Jazz Festival
“Rhythm for Sale”
“Rhythm Is Our Business”
Rhythmitis (film)
Ribeiro, Alfonso
Rice, Thomas Dartmouth
Rich, Buddy
Rich, Frank
Richardson, Jazzlips
Richman, Camden
Richmond, Dannie
Riff Brothers
Ringgold, Muriel
Ring Shout
Rise of Rosie O’Grady, The
“Ritual Fire Dance” (de Falla)
“Riverboat Shuffle, The”
Riverdance (touring show)
Riverside Plaza Terrace (New York)
RKO
Roach, Max
Road Demon (film)
Robbins, Jerome
Roberta (film)
Roberts, Luckey, and his Society Entertainers
Robin and the Seven Hoods (film)
Robinson, Bill “Bojangles”; in Broadway shows; as Cotton Club headliner; dancers influenced by; death of; early career in minstrel shows and vaudeville of; films of (see also titles of specific films); imitators of; other dancers compared with; stair dance of; standard of dress of; students of
Robinson, Jackie
Robinson, LaVaughn
Robinson, Sherman
Robinson, Smokey, and the Miracles
Robinson, Sugar Ray
“Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody”
Rockettes
rock and roll
Rockwell, John
Rodeo (ballet)
Rodgers, Richard
Rogers, Ginger
Rogers, Will
Rökk, Marika
Rolling Stones
Rompin’ Thru (road show)
Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club (London)
Rooney, Mickey
Rooney, Pat, Jr.
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Rosalie; film version of
Roseland Ballroom (New York)
Rosen, Charles
Rosencrantz, Olivia
Rossellini, Isabella
Rothafel, S. L. “Roxy”
’Round the World circuit
Roxy Hart (film)
Roxy Theater (New York)
Royal Dutch Tap Dance Human Rhythm Festival
Royal Wedding (film)
Rubin, Benny
Rubinstein, Arthur
Ruffin, Leonard
Rufus Jones for President (film)
Rufus Rastus (road show)
Rumbatap
Runaround
Running Scared (film)
Runnin’ Wild
Russakoff, Senia
Russell, Arthur “Pye”
Russell, Eddie
Russell, Nipsey
Russell, Sylvester
Russia; see also Soviet Union
Russian School of American Tap Dance
Rutledge and Taylor
Ryan, Benny
Ryan, Jimmy
Ryan, Peggy
Saddler, Donald
Safford, Sarah
sailor’s dance, see hornpipe
St. Denis, Ruth
St. Louis
St. Louis Blues (film)
St. Louis Woman
Sally
Salt and Pepper
“Salt Peanuts”
Sam, Ted, and Ray, see Tip, Tap, and Toe
Samuels, Rae
Sanabria, Bobby
sand dance
Sands, Dick
San Francisco
San Francisco (film)
Sanskrit
Sargent, John Singer
Saroyan, William
Satanstoe (Cooper)
Savion: My Life in Tap (Glover)
Savion Glover/Downtown (concert)
Savion Glover’s NuYork (TV special)
Savoyagers
Savoy Ballroom (Harlem)
Sawyer, Geneva
“Say, Young Man of Manhattan”
Scal, Liber
Schall, Gary
Schiffman, Bobby
Schiffman, Frank
Schiffman, Jack
School of American Ballet
Science of English Verse, The (Lanier)
Scientific Rhythm
Scopino, Tony
Scotland
Scots-Irish
Scott, Henry
Scott, Raymond, Quintette
Second World War; era following
Sedykh, Vasily
Seeger, Mike
Seesaw
Segovia, Claudio
segregation
Selassie, Haile
Seldes, Gilbert
Selva, James
Senegal
Senegambia
Sensations of 1945 (film)
“Sensemayá” (Revueltas)
Sesame Street (TV show)
Set the Floor
Seven Little Foys
Severance (rock band)
Sex and the Single Girl (Brown)
“Shake It Off with Rhythm”
Shakespeare, William
Shall We Dance (film)
shave-and-a-haircut rhythm
Shaw, Winifred
Shawn, Ted
Shea, Paddy
Shim Sham; creation of; at dance festivals; in films; steps in; at Swing 46 jams
“Shine”
Ship Ahoy (film)
Shirelles
“Shoo Fly”
Shoot Me While I’m Happy
Shorty and Slim
Shorty George
“Shout, Brother, Shout”
Showboat
Showtime
Shubert, Lee
Shuffle Along
Shuffle Off to Buffalo
“Sich a Getting Up Stairs”
“Side by Side by Side”
Siegel, Marcia
Siegelman, Jim
Sierra Leone
Silas Green from New Orleans
Silk Stockings (film)
Silver Slipper (New York)
Silver Spoons (TV show)
Simon, John
Sims, Sandman
Singapore
Sinatra, Frank
“Sing Before Breakfast”
Singing, Swinging, and Winging (concert)
Singin’ in the Rain (film)
Sissle, Noble
Six Merry Scotchmen
60 Minutes (TV show)
Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett of West Tennessee (Crockett)
Sketches of Lancashire Life (Waugh)
Sky’s the Limit, The (film)
Slap and Happy
“Slap That Bass”
“Slaughter on Tenth Avenue” (Rodgers)
Slave Marriage Dance
Slave Match Dance
slaves; dancing by; freed (see also abolitionism; free blacks); indentured servants and; portrayals in films of; rebellions of; runaway; whites imitating (see also blackface)
Slave Troupe Minstrels
slides
Slim and Sweets
Slipped Disk (Manhattan Tap)
Slowpoke (film)
Slyde, Jimmy; film appearances of; Glover and; in international touring shows; La Cave jam sessions of; at tap festivals; television appearances of
Slyde Brothers
Small, Danny
Smallens, Alexander
Small’s Paradise (Harlem)
Small Town Girl (film)
Smash Your Baggage (film)
“Smile, Darn You, Smile”
Smiles
Smith, Bessie
Smith, Cecil
Smith, Cosie
Smith, Ernie
Smith, James W.
Smith, Jason Samuels
Smith, Jimmy
Smith, John N.
Smith, Kate
Smithsonian Institution
Smokehouse Dance
Smuin, Michael
snakehips
Snake Pit (Chicago)
Snow, Valaida
Sobol, Louis
soft shoe; in films; pace of; Primrose celebrated for
Sohl-Donnell, Linda
Sokolow, Anna
SoLE PoWER (Glover)
Sole Sisters (Goldberg)
SoLo in TIME (Glover)
Some Like It Hot (film)
Something to Shout About (film)
Something to Sing About (film)
Sommer, Sally
“Sonata for Tap Dancer” (Draper)
Sondheim, Stephen
Song Is Born, A (film)
Song of the Open Road (film)
Sophisticated Ladies
Souls of Black Folk, The (W.E.B. Du Bois)
Soul Train (TV show)
South; black migration to North from; discrimination against blacks in (see also segregation); minstrelsy in; slavery in; see also specific states
South Africa
South Before the War, The (“plant” show)
South Carolina
Soviet Union
Spain
Spanish-American War
Spanish Civil War
Speed Kings
Spencer, Prince
Spic and Span
Spillane, Mickey
Spina, Peggy
Spirit Moves, The (documentary)
splits
Spotlite (New York)
“Sping, The”
SS
stair dance; see also under Robinson, Bill “Bojangles”
Stairway to Paradise
Standard Theatre (Philadelphia)
Stanly, Jack
Stark, Herman
Start Cheering (film)
State Department, U.S.
Steal It and Change It
Stearns, Jean
Stearns, Marshall
Stein, Gertrude
Steps in Time (Astaire)
Steps in Time (show)
Steptanz in Selbstunterricht (Johns)
Step Up 3D (film)
STePz (Glover)
Stevens, Ashton
Stewart, Jimmy
Sting, The (film)
Stone, Fred
Stone, Louis
Stormy Weather (film)
Story of Jazz, The (Stearns)
Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, The (film)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Strand, Deirdre
“Strange Feeling”
Strayhorn, Billy
Strickland Sisters
Strickler, Fred
Strike Me Pink (film)
Strike Up the Band (film)
Stripes
Stroman, Susan
Strong, Rodney
Strut Miss Lizzie
struts
Stump and Stumpy
Sublett, John, see Bubbles, John
Sugar
Sugar Foot Strut
Sugar Hill Times (TV show)
Sullivan, Ed; see also Toast of the Town
Sumbry-Edwards, Dormeshia
Summerlin, Ed
Summers, Elaine
Summer Stock (film)
Sunny
Sunset Café (Chicago)
Sun Valley Serenade (film)
Supree, Burt
Supremes
Surrey Music Hall (Sheffield)
Sutton, Tommy
Sutton Club (New York)
Suzie Q
Swahili
Sweden
Sweet and Low (film)
Swift, Grant
swing; in Broadway shows; in films; in Harlem; on television; see also big bands
Swing 46 (New York)
“Swing a Little Funk into Gang Gang”
Swing for Sale (film)
“Swing Tap”
Swing Time (film)
Swinton, Harry
Switzerland
Symphony Club (Harlem); see also Hoofers’ Club
Symphony Hall (Boston)
Symphony in Swing (Ellington)
Syncopated Ladies
“Syncopated Sandy”
“Syncopated Walk, The”
syncopation; see also ragtime
“Tacet Understanding”
Tack Annie
Taiwan
Tak, Tobias
Takahashi, Dorothy, see Toy, Dorothy
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (film)
“Taking a Chance on Love”
Talking Feet (film)
Tamango
Tambo and Bones
Tango Twist
Tap (film)
Tap! (Frank)
Tapage
Tap America Project
Tap and Tray
Tap Dance Concerto (Gould)
Tap Dance Instrument
Tap Dance Kid, The
Tapdancin’ (documentary)
Tap Dancing at a Glance (Ormonde)
Tap Dogs (touring show)
Tapeire (touring show)
Tapestry (Bufalino)
Tapestry Dance Company
Tap Extravaganza
Tap Happening
Tap Heat (film)
Tapmotif Rhythm Summit
Tap-O-Mania
Tapper’s Paradise (Boston)
Tapping Talk Show, The (Goldberg)
Tapps, George
Tapshot
TapTronics
“Tap Your Troubles Away”
Tate, Jimmy
Tatum, Art
Taylor, Clarence, see Groundhog
Taylor, Ernest
Taylor, Freddie
Taylor, June, Dancers
Taylor, Paul
Taylor, Robert
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich
“Tea for Two”
Temple, Shirley
Temptations
Tennessee
Tennessee Double-shuffle
Terry, Keith
Terry, Walter
Texaco Star Theater (TV show)
Texas
Texas Tommy (dance)
Tharp, Twyla
That’s Entertainment (film)
“That’s How You Jazz”
That’s the Spirit (film)
Thayer’s Minstrels
Theater Owners Booking Association (TOBA)
“There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon”
“They All Laughed”
This Is the Army (touring show)
Thomas, James
Thomas, Naomi
Thompson, Lydia
Thompson, Naomi, and Brazil Nuts
Thompson, Robert Farris
Thompson, U. S. “Slow Kid”
Thorpe, Colonel T. B.
Thorpe, Mildred “Candi”
Thousands Cheer (film)
Three Aces
three-and-a-break steps
Three Brown Brothers
Three Brown Buddies
Three Browns
Three Brown Spots
Three Cheers for Love (film)
Three Chefs
Three Deuces (New York)
Three Dukes
Three Ebony Steppers
Three Eddies
Three Giants of Rhythm
Three Gobs
Three Klassy Kids
Three Little Dots
Three Little Words
Three Millers
Three Pepper Pots
Three Playboys
Three Princes of Rhythm
Three Rhythm Kings
Three Rhythm Queens
Three Sparks of Rhythm
Three Sunbeams
Through the Trenches, see trenches
“Tico Tico”
Ti Dii
Tiller Girls
Time of Your Life, The (Saroyan); film of
time steps; in Broadway shows; in films
Time, the Place, and the Girl, The (film)
Tin Pan Alley (film)
Tip, Tap, and Toe
Toast of the Town (TV show)
Tobacco Road (Kirkland)
To Beat the Band (film)
Tolliver, Denny
Tolson, Aaron
Tomita, Kaoru
“Tone Poem” (Strickler)
Toney, Lemuel
Tonight Show, The
Tony Awards
“Too Darn Hot”
Too Many Girls (film)
“Too Marvelous for Words”
Too Sweet, Willie
“Too Tall, Too Small Blues”
“Toot, Toot, Tootsie”
Top Hat (film)
Top of the Town (film)
Touch, Turn, Return (Bufalino)
Toy, Dorothy
Toy and Wing
Track
“Trading Taps”
“Tradition and the Individual Talent” (Eliot)
Travelers: A Tap Dance/Epic (Conrad)
Tree of Hope
trenches
Trip to Coontown, A (Cole)
Tristano, Lennie
Tri-Star Pictures
Triumph of the Will (film)
Trotter, James Monroe
Truckin’
Tsfasman, Alexander
Tucker, Bert
Tucker, Earl “Snakehips”
Tucker, Henry
Tudor, Antony
Tune, Tommy
“Turkey in the Straw”
Turkey Trot
Turner, Elma
Turner, Lana
Turner, William
Twain, Mark
“Twelfth Street Rag”
12 Years a Slave (Northrup)
Twentieth Century–Fox
Twist
“twopenny hops”
Two Real Coons
Two Zephyrs
Tyrolese Minstrels
Ubangi Club (New York)
Uggams, Leslie
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe); films of; theatrical productions of
Unitas, Johnny
United Booking Office
Universal Studios
Universum Film AG (UFA)
Up the River (film)
Urban Tap
Use Your Imagination (film)
USO
Utesov, Leonid
Valente, Caterina
Van Cayseele, Herbin
Vancouver International Tap Festival
Vanderbilt family
Vandross, Luther
Van Vechten, Carl
variety shows; on television, see names of specific shows or hosts
Varsity Show (film)
vaudeville; blacks in; bookings for, see Theater Owners Booking Association; chorus lines in; circuits for touring shows; in films; performance venues for, (see names of theaters); on television; see also names of performers and acts
Vera-Ellen
Verdon, Gwen
Vereen, Ben
Vertov, Dziga
Victoria, Queen
“Victory Polka”
Vierk, Lois V.
Vietnam War
Village Gate (New York)
Village Vanguard (New York)
Virginia
Virginia, especially Richmond, in By-Gone Days (Mordecai)
Virginia breakdowns
Virginia Essence
Virginia Minstrels
Visions of a Bible (Glover)
Vitaphone Corporation
Vivaldi, Antonio
Vogues of 1938 (film)
Voice of America
von Suppé, Franz
Vosseler, Heidi
Vreeland, Diana
Waag, Tony
Wadelton, Thomas
Wake Up and Live (film)
Wake Up Black Man
walk-arounds
Walken, Christopher
Walker, Dianne
Walker, George
Walker, James “Chuckles”
Walking My Baby Back Home (film)
Wallace, Henry
Waller, Fats
Walrond, Eric
Waltz Clog
“War Dance for Wooden Indians”
Waring, James
Warner, Jack
Warner Brothers
Warren, Dollie and Bessie, Champion Clog Medley of
Washington, D.C.
Washington, Ford Lee “Buck”; see also Buck and Bubbles
Washington, George
Wasserman, Dorothy
Watch Your Step
Waters, Ethel
Waugh, Edwin
Wave (Conrad)
Wayburn, Ned
Weather Clear, Track Fast
Weber, Bruce
Weber, Sam
Weber, Sebastian
Weill, Kurt
Wein, George
Welch, Jewel “Pepper”
Welk, Lawrence
Wells, Dickie
Wells, Mordecai, and Taylor
West, Irene
West, William
Wheeler, Ivery
Whelan, Bill
When Johnny Comes Marching Home (film)
When the Cathedrals Were White (Le Corbusier)
Where’s Charley?; film version of
Whipper, Leigh
Whispering Sidewalks (film)
White, Charlie
White, George, see George White’s Scandals
White Christmas (film)
Whiteman, Paul
White Nights (film)
Whitlock, William
Whitman, Albery Allson
Whitman, Alice
Whitman, Mabel
Whitman, Pops; see also Pops and Louie
Whitman Sisters
Whitney, Eleanor
Whitney, Salem Tutt
Who Used to Dance (album)
“Why Do Fools Fall in Love”
Wiggan, Joseph
Wiggins, Ginger Jack
Wiggins, Henry
Wilder, Baakari
Wiley, Hugh
Wilkins, Walter
William Mahara’s Minstrels
Williams, Al
Williams, Bert
Williams, Carter
Williams, Esther
Williams, Ethel
Williams, Isaac
Williams, Louis
Williams, Mary Lou
Williams, Pete
Wilson, August
Wilson, Derby
Wilson, Edmund
Wilson, Flip
Wilson, Fred
Winchell, Walter
Winfield, Raymond
Wing, Paul
wings; see also buck and wing, the; pigeon wings
Winston, Tarik
Winter, Marian Hannah
Winter Evening in Gagry (film)
Winter Garden Theatre (New York)
Wintergarten (Berlin)
Wir Tanzen Um die Welt (film)
Wiz, The
Wizard of Oz, The
Wolfe, George C.
Wolfen (film)
Wolof people
“Women Are Dangerous”
Wonder, Stevie
Wonder Bar (film)
Wood, Elijah
Wood, Milt
Wooden Shoe Dance
Woodpecker’s Tap Dance Center (New York)
Woods, Tommy
Woody, Charles
Woollcott, Alexander
Wooster Group
Wooten, Danny
World War I, see First World War
World War II, see Second World War
Worrell, Jennie
“Yankee Doodle Dandy”
Yankee Doodle Dandy (film)
Yates, Billie
Yeah-Man
Yes, I Can! (Davis)
Yes Sir, That’s My Baby (film)
“Yes, We Have No Bananas”
Yoruban dancing
You Can’t Have Everything (film)
You’ll Never Get Rich (film)
“You Must Believe in Spring”
Young, Frank
Young, Lester
Young, Stark
Young, Trummy
Young People (film)
“You’re Just a Little Nigger but You’re Mine All Mine”
Zambia
Zanuck, Darryl
Zatoichi (film)
Zernov, Vladimir
Ziegfeld, Florenz
Ziegfeld Follies
Ziegfeld Follies (film)
Zinn, Howard
“Zip Coon”
Zukor, Adolph
Zulu