By Mekhi Abbott Special to the AFRO [email protected] Originally beginning as a trio in 1925, The Four Step Brothers formed a legendary tap dancing group that is still revered almost a century later.

Canadian tap luminary Heather Cornell, who left Toronto for New York in the 1980s to learn from tap dancing’s then-neglected masters, recalls, “The one thing that they all said the same was ...

Tap pioneers "Peg Leg" Bates, the Nicholas Brothers and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson regularly packed the Apollo Theater and the Savoy Ballroom. "I would be playing outside, and I would be dancing ...

This summer, there are tap dance festivals happening all over the U.S. and Canada. Vancouver's Tap Festival kicks off later this month on Aug. 25, and there's another festival in Sommerville, Mass ...

In 2010, Hines starred in “Sophisticated Ladies” in Washington, D.C., which co-starred the teenaged dancing brothers John and Leo Manzari.

Maurice Hines, who tap danced his way to a Tony nomination during a long stage career and was a frequent TV guest, has died at the age of 80, according to reports from friends and family. Hines began ...

Hines first appeared on Broadway at 5-years-old, when he and his brother Gregory (who died in 2003), debuted their tap dancing act — akin to that of the famed Nicholas Brothers — in the 1954 ...

In 2010, Hines starred in “Sophisticated Ladies” in Washington, D.C., which co-starred the teenaged dancing brothers John and Leo Manzari.

In 2010, Hines starred in “Sophisticated Ladies” in Washington, D.C., which co-starred the teenaged dancing brothers John and Leo Manzari.