Tap dance great Gregory Hines was to have been the headliner at the first Los Angeles Tap Festival Saturday at Hamilton High School in L.A. Instead, the festival, presented by the Debbie Allen Dance ...
NEW YORK — Breathtaking tap dancer Gregory Hines, who dazzled on Broadway and in films and television, while always insisting he was ‘‘just a hoofer at heart,'' died Saturday of cancer. He was 57.