Gregory Hines News

Watch some classic old movies - just about everyone knew how to dance. Even more commonly, they knew how to tap dance.

If jazz is the indigenous American mu sic, then tap is the indigenous American dance form.

An all-star cast will pay tribute to the late tap legend Gregory Hines and many others in "Thank You, Gregory!" at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov.

By TOM LAVIS TLAVIS@TRIBDEM.COM Gregory Hines was only 57 when he died in 2003, but he was considered his generation's greatest tap dancer.

Anyone who has ever donned a pair of tap shoes, or wished that they could, should rush down to the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts for a performance of "Thank You Gregory, A Tribute to the Legends of Tap," featuring special guest star, Maurice Hines.

I'd never seen a feminist tap-dance number before. But there it was, just one of the dozen brilliantly executed sequences in Thank You Gregory: A Tribute to the Legends of Tap, which had its world premiere at the Annenberg Center on Tuesday night.

In the world of tap dance, there are still arguments about whether the form began in Ireland with step dancing and migrated to African slaves in the South and then to Appalachia where it morphed into clogging - or some version of that in reverse.

Using the floor as a drum and her feet as an instrument, tap dancer Ouida Lewis is a musician of unusual calibre.

Tony nominee Maurice Hines, brother and partner of the legendary Gregory Hines, will star in the world premiere of "Thank You Gregory, A Tribute to the Legends of Tap," playing Oct.

TAP Great dancing from Gregory Hines and a host of amazing old-timers, and not much story to get in the way of their moves.

In which I read a bunch of press releases, so you don't have to. White Nights is screening at Pix North tonight.

Broadway star and brother/partner of the legendary Gregory Hines, Maurice Hines guest stars in Thank You Gregory, A Tribute to the Legends of Tap October 6-10, A Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 3680 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, launching Dance Celebration's 28th season, The Magic of Movement .

Also found dead is his companion, writer and actor Kenneth Halliwell. It appears that Halliwell murdered the Loot playwright and then killed himself.

Also found dead is his companion, writer and actor Kenneth Halliwell. It appears that Halliwell murdered the Loot playwright and then killed himself.

Celebrating its 40th Anniversary, the New Orleans Ballet Association is thrilled to announce a spectacular 2009-2010 season of dance, featuring some of the world's most elite dance companies.