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In a New York University master dance class in the mid 1990s, Cholly Atkins, then in his mid-eighties, was teaching his "vocal choreography" to Aretha. Franklin's "Respect." Even the department chair, not prone to swiveling her hips, was up and swinging, cheering at the end of the two-hour session with the rest of the seventy-five students in ...
3. Okt. 2008 · To watch the entire clips with Marshell Stearns: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DJPusWF_-4Charles Cholly Atkins was an American dancer and vaudeville perfor...
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21. Apr. 2003 · Cholly Atkins, the legendary tap dancer who taught all the Motown acts how to move, died Saturday in Las Vegas at age 89. He was surrounded by family, as well as "students" Gladys Knight and Mary ...
Cholly Atkins was born Charles Atkinson in Pratt City, Alabama, outside Birmingham, on September 30, 1913; he formed his stage name by shortening his own last name and taking the first name of a New York newspaper columnist, Cholly Knickerbocker. His father had come to Birmingham to take a job in one of the city ’ s steel mills, but the ...
However, the existence of black vocal groups such as those in the Motor Town Revue helped retain and preserve much of the vocabulary of American vernacular dance, including that of tap. The man largely responsible for this retention and cultural transference was Cholly Atkins, who worked as choreographer for Motown Records from 1965-1971.
9. Apr. 2003 · Cholly Atkins's career has spanned an extraordinary era of American dance. He began performing during Prohibition and continued his apprenticeship in vaudeville, in nightclubs, and in the army during World War II. With his partner, Honi Coles, Cholly toured the country, performing with such jazz masters as Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, and Count Basie. As tap reached a nadir in the fifties ...
Cholly Atkins was born Charles Sylvan Atkinson in 1913 in Pratt City, Alabama, and raised in Buffalo, New York. He started out in entertainment as a singer in Buffalo, but soon turned to dancing. He went to Hollywood for a few years, where he was an extra in films and a nightclub entertainer. He toured the Midwest in the 1930s, finally moving ...
