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Bill Robinson - Chair-Dance (EN)

TDC N°4 - the famous "sitting" routine. Honi Coles & The Copasetics (original) + Chuck Green (after Bill Robinson, Buck-And-Wing-Style) + Condos Brothers 1937 chair-dance and many others! Researched, compiled & edited by Victor Cuno (132 pages). LAST UPDATE: NOV 4, 2014. Available as DOWNLOAD PDF

Language EN Pages PDF 67 p.

Reference : SWT-TDC-08c-PDF-EN

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contents:

 

Chair-Dance
Introduction p. 3
Honi Coles & The Copasetics (5 dancers)
Routine / comments & variations p. 5
Chuck Green (3 dancers)
Music: Doin' The New Low Down
(Jimmy McHugh & Dorothy Fields) on CD STCD9602 " Encore ! "
Routine / comments & variations p. 13

Chair Dance Documentation


from "Use Your Imagination" p. 34
music by Cliff Hess, dances by Harry Crosley
(Vitaphone, Sept. 2, 1933)
Johnny Nit from "Steppin' Fast"p. 36
> the famous Dancing Star of "Blackbirds" <
(Pathetone, UK, 1936)
Condos Brothers: "1937" Chair-Dance p. 43
not yet identified footage (YouTube Clip)
Our Gang Comedies: Chair-Dance «Running Wild» p. 57
from "Ye Olde Minstrels" (MGM, March 18, 1941)
Condos Brothers & Betty Grable p. 65
"You Started Something"
“Moon Over Miami” (20th Century Fox, July 4, 1941) DVD
Teddy Hale "Rhythm Routine" p. 77
from a 1949 TV Show / YouTube Clip (jazz.tap.org)
Kelly & Astaire "The Babitt And The Bromide" p. 79
from “Ziegfeld Follies” (MGM, 1944, Jan. 15 1946)

Gene Kelly & Donald O'Connor "Sitting" p. 82
from the TV Show “Pontiac Star Parade” (1959)
Gene Kelly & Donald O'Connor «Moses» 2nd Part p. 99
a) from «Singin’ In The Rain» (MGM, 1952)
b) from the TV Show “Pontiac Star Parade” (1959)
Victor Cuno (8 dancers)
(variations for 6, 5 & 4 dancers)
Music: Saperlipopette
(Hubert Degex) recorded on STCD9602 " Encore ! "
routine p. 105
Variations for 6,5 or 4 dancers p. 113

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