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Excerpt of blues era black bottom dancing and history from "America Dances", a compilation of jazz and blues dance history.
AMERICA DANCES! 1897-1948: A Collector's Edition of Social Dance in Film
Actors: Various
Run Time: 75 minutes
Black Bottom Routine to Savoy Blues by Kid Ory and His Creole Jazz Band.
Choreography: 1st half: Mike Faltesek; 2nd half: Elaine Frawley.
Dancer: Heidi Fite (San Francisco, CA)
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Videography by Keith Shapiro.
Speakeasy Blues Performance from Cheap Thrills 06. Choreographed by Damon Stone & Heidi Fite. Troupe members: Damon Stone, Heidi Fite, Liz Powell, Dexter Santos, Dave Madison, Kim Frey, Ogden Sawyer, Amanda Gruhl.
Damon Stone and Heidi Fite (and others on the periphery) dancing to at a late night at Cheap Thrills All Blues Weekend 2005.
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The final performance at the end of a workshop taught by Heidi Fite and Charlie Fuller at the st louis lindy blues exchange in 2005. They were teaching a black bottom dance routine (a blues era dance) taught to them by Mike Faltesek of the Harlem Hotshots
This clip is from the Library of Congress public collections, and is in the public domain. It is originally from a collection by Thomas Edison, published by the Edison Mfg. Co. in 1897
The video shows a child (most likely a stable-boy) on a table doing a vintage breakdown blues dance, while surrounded by jockeys and other stable hands.
Damon Stone and Heidi Fite (and others on the periphery) dancing to "Nobody knows you when you're down and out" at a late night at Cheap Thrills All Blues Weekend 2005.
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Highlights from Cheap Thrills 2006 and promotional information about bluesSHOUT 2007. Event location: St. Louis, MO. Event dates: April 27-29, 2007
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