Honi Coles
The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000
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Host: Edward Lee Stern
Honi Coles discusses the origin of tap dancing, and Bill Robinson's influence on tap. Cole then discusses his own beginings as a tap dancer, and Fred Astaire's range as a dancer. He describes tap dancing as percussion, the origins of be-bop, and the early days of the Copasetics. Coles discusses the reasons for the decline of tap, the functions of the Apollo Theater and the Cotton Club during the decline of tap, and tap in vaudeville. Coles concludes by sharing the background of a time-step, and gives a time-step demonstration.
WNYC archives id: 46131
