Tap dance workshop
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Title
Tap dance workshop
Collection
Gregory Hines Collection of American Tap Dance
Names
Briggs, Bunny (Dancer)
Briggs, Bunny (Teacher)
Briggs, Bunny (Interviewee)
Sims, Sandman (Teacher)
Green, Chuck (Teacher)
Smithsonian Institution (Sponsor)
American Dance Experience (Concert series : Washington, D.C.) (Sponsor)
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1980-09-08 (Questionable)
Place: Washington, DC, USA
Table Of Contents
Disc 1 (62 min.): Introductory speeches (some parts inaudible, due to inadequate miking) followed by teaching by Sims, Green, and Briggs. |||| Disc 2 (14 min.): Conclusion of Briggs' lesson (7 min.) -- Excerpt (7 min.) from the television show Good morning Washington, featuring an interview/performance by Briggs.
Library Location
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 6061
Shelf locator: *MGZIDVD 5-2510 (former)
Subjects
Tap dancing
Dance -- Study and teaching
Genres
Filmed Dance
Filmed Performances
Notes
Performers: Instructors, Bunny Briggs, Sandman Sims, and Chuck Green.
Venue: Videotaped during a tap dance workshop in the studio for teenagers presented at Duke Ellington High School, Washington, D.C. (?) on Sept. 8 (?), 1980, under the sponsorship of the American Dance Experience program of the Smithsonian Institution.
Funding: This videorecording was preserved with support provided in part by Save America's Treasures through a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
Physical Description
Extent: 2 videocassettes (U-matic) (76 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Languages
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPY906027962-F
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b12169038
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): a02ca4e0-a836-0134-4a25-00505686a51c
Rights
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Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Tap dance workshop" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1980. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a02ca4e0-a836-0134-4a25-00505686a51c
APA format
Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1980). Tap dance workshop Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a02ca4e0-a836-0134-4a25-00505686a51c
Chicago/Turabian Format
Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Tap dance workshop" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 14, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a02ca4e0-a836-0134-4a25-00505686a51c
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