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On Broadway: put a line of tap dancers on stage, and the show stops--guaranteed.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-MAY-04 		Format: Online - approximately 903 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Throughout most of the 1920s, '30s and and '40s, tap ruled Broadway musicals. It was the dance vernacular, a home-grown popular entertainment that had sprung from the uniquely American intersection of African and Irish dance forms. With its upbeat rhythms, relaxed posture and freewheeling energy, tap seemed to breathe the air of democracy--especially once it migrated from the country's theater stages to its even more popular movie screens.

But when the forces unleashed by Agnes de Mille and Jerome Robbins transformed the dance element in musical theater from a pleasant diversion to an integral part of the plot, tap dancers suddenly became scarce on Broadway. History had decreed that the dancing now had to be related to a musical's characters, and Puerto Rican street kids and Austrian nuns would hardly be credible doing time...

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