Bill Robinson! #master #icon #legend #tapdance | Operation: Tap

#videorewindwednesday to the master Bill “Bojangles” Robinson! #tapdance #billrobinson #master (1937) | Operation: Tap

#standardsaturday 1935, Bill Robinson and the exceptional Jeni LeGon! #tapdance #billrobinson #jenilegon #masters #tapdancers #icons #hoorayforlove | Operation: Tap

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

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

Because of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, U.S. Congress designated May 25 (Robinson's birthday) as National Tap Dance Day. Best known and the most highly paid African-American entertainer in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. Bill Robinson's long career mirrored changes in American entertainment tastes and technology. His career began in the age of minstrel shows and moved to vaudeville, Broadway theatre, the recording industry, Hollywood films, radio, and television. Bill