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Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, was the most famous of all African American tap dancers in the twentieth century. Dancing upright and swinging, his light and exacting footwork brought tap “up on its toes” from an earlier flat-footed shuffling style, and developed the art of tap dancing to a delicate perfection. Born Luther Robinson in Richmond, Virginia, his parents, Maria and Maxwell Robinson, died in 1885. Young Bill was reared by his grandmother, Bedilia Robinson, who had been a slave. In Richmond
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Bill "Bojangles" Robinson teaches Shirley Temple his signature stair dance in this scene from The Little Colonel | Tap Dance Community
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Bill “Bojangles” Robinson wasn’t just a tap dancer—he was the tap dancer. Born in 1878, he broke through racial barriers in the early 20th century, dazzling audiences on Broadway, in Hollywood, and around the world with his effortless style and lightning-fast footwork. Robinson became the highest-paid Black entertainer of his time, famous for his iconic stair dance and for bringing tap into the spotlight. He paved the way for generations of Black performers, using his talent to fight stereotypes
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The Little Colonel, 1935 The famous stair dance made Bill “Bojangles” Robinson and Shirley Temple the first interracial dance pairing in Hollywood history. Temple said in an interview that he taught her “to feel the beat, rather than count it out.” • via Instagram.com/invsout | FilmFreeway
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Bill “Bojangles” Robinson and Shirley Temple in the 1938 film Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm represent one of the most extraordinary partnerships in the history of tap dance and classic American cinema. In tap history, there are names so revered they approach myth. Legends whose skill set the standard for the generations that followed. Bill Robinson was one of those rare figures — the gold standard. The dancer’s dancer. Icons such as Fred Astaire, Sammy Davis Jr., Gene Kelly, Eleanor Powell, the Nic
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