Saturday, November 10, 2007

HOOFIN'

These guys are the classiest. Pure clean.
Anyone who can whip these moves out at a party is a king.

Great African-American tap dancers of all time..

The Nicholas Brothers and Pegleg Bates at my birthday.

Sammy Davis jr. with Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich...



this video was labeled "Best amazing tap dance ever1 must see!"



Savion Glover only the weirddoodooo



Savion Glover "rapping and tapping" with
Snuffalufagus on Sesame Street. I heard that afterwards they
swapped gang stories and then Snuffy smoked him out.


From Wikipedia:
Tap dance was developed in the United States during the nineteenth century, and is popular nowadays in many parts of the world. The name comes from the tapping sound made when the small metal plates on the dancer's shoes touch a hard floor.
Tap dancing as such may have begun in the 1830s in the Five Points neighborhood of New York City as a fusion of Irish and African Shuffle. Dancers from different immigrant groups would get together to compete and show off their best moves. According to theory, as the dances fused, a new American style of dancing emerged.

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