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Tap, Ball Tap, Hop, Shuffle, Tap!
National Tap Dance Day is celebrated every year on May 25th, which is the birthday of American Tap Dancer and actor, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson.

Poston, Arizona. A young evacuee of Japanese ancestry entertains her fellow evacuees with a demonstration of her tap dancing ability. This was one number in an outdoor musical show.
Francis Stewart, photographer.  From the Central Photographic File of the War Relocation Authority


It’s Friday. It’s Memorial Day weekend. Lay it down!
~reblogged by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
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Tap, Ball Tap, Hop, Shuffle, Tap!

National Tap Dance Day is celebrated every year on May 25th, which is the birthday of American Tap Dancer and actor, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson.

Poston, Arizona. A young evacuee of Japanese ancestry entertains her fellow evacuees with a demonstration of her tap dancing ability. This was one number in an outdoor musical show.

Francis Stewart, photographer.  From the Central Photographic File of the War Relocation Authority

It’s Friday. It’s Memorial Day weekend. Lay it down!

~reblogged by Trent Gilliss, senior editor

    • #dance
    • #history
    • #ritual
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    Wait, are yall referring to interned Japanese-American citisens as ‘evacuees’? It looks like the image
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    National Tap Dance Day
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    Happy national tap dance day!
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    “Evacuee” sounds so benevolent, doesn’t it?
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    in my heart because in my head, I’m the best tap dancer ever. In real life? I look like a robot short-circuited and
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    It’s Friday. It’s Memorial Day weekend. Lay it down! ~reblogged by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
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