Bill Robinson! #master #icon #legend #tapdance | Operation: Tap

#videorewindwednesday to the master Bill “Bojangles” Robinson! #tapdance #billrobinson #master (1937) | Operation: Tap

#standardsaturday 1935, Bill Robinson and the exceptional Jeni LeGon! #tapdance #billrobinson #jenilegon #masters #tapdancers #icons #hoorayforlove | Operation: Tap

Bill "Bojangles" Robinson teaches Shirley Temple his signature stair dance in this scene from The Little Colonel | Tap Dance Community

Flashback Bill “Bojangles” Robinson who was a true trailblazer who tapped his way through barriers and into history. #tapdancing #blackhistory #billbojanglesrobinson #flashbackfriday | Chloé Arnold's Syncopated Ladies

Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, was the most famous of all African American tap dancers in the twentieth century. Dancing upright and swinging, his light and exacting footwork brought tap “up on its toes” from an earlier flat-footed shuffling style, and developed the art of tap dancing to a delicate perfection. Born Luther Robinson in Richmond, Virginia, his parents, Maria and Maxwell Robinson, died in 1885. Young Bill was reared by his grandmother, Bedilia Robinson, who had been a slave. In Richmond

Bill Robinson in Stormy Weather (1943)! #happybirthdaybillrobinson #Repost @vintagemoviestars ・・・ Bill "Bojangles" Robinson performing the sand dance in Stormy Weather, 1943. • • • #billrobinson #oldhollywood #classichollywood #goldenage #goldenera #history #nostalgia #vintage #retro #movie #film #cinema #dance #1940s #40s | Operation: Tap