All of them, because they are extremely badarse. I’m sorry I don’t have time to check their names just now, I’m just about to go out dancing and DJing myself!
Women’s History Month: Jean O’Neil!
Acrobatic tap from the 1936 film Amuse Yourself.
hippo and stripybunny
Yellow amigurumi hippo is yellow.
Women’s History Month: Irene Thomas
A lindy hopper I knew nothing about (which isn’t saying much – I don’t know the west coast dancers very well at all), and who was brought to my attention by Bobby White’s post on women dancers which I have also only recently discovered. Dummy that I am.
Women’s History Month: Jeanne Veloz!
Aaron Siskind
Aaron Siskind’s Harlem Document: Photographs 1932-40 series of photographs.
Features John ‘Tiny’ Bunch and Dorothy ‘Dot’ Moses.
Women’s History Month: Cora LaRedd
Cora LaRedd singing and dancing in the number ‘Jig Time’ with Noble Sissle’s Orchestra in the 1933 film That’s the Spirit.
She caught my eye because she has a really strong style, and she has darker skin, which is unusual in these films of black American women tap dancers of the period.
Here‘s an interesting photo story about African American women tap dancers.
Women’s History Month: Dorothy Miller!
First couple, dancing with Johnny Innis in A Day At The Races (1937):
Women’s History Month: Jeni LeGon
Women’s History Month: Sandra Gibson!
aka Mildred “Boogie” Pollard, aka Lindy hopper!
In Radio City Revels in 1938, the second couple in the jam, but the first couple after the cut from the singer at the beginning (ie there’s another couple in the jam before Gibson and partner ‘Shorty’ Davis).
In Spirit Moves in 1950 with James Berry: