Dance Groups / Troupes of 3 or More

Name

Manager

Location / Other

Performed / Other

Dance (s)

Dates

3 Miller Brothers

n/a

n/a

Hummin' Sam [1933]

n/a

c.1930s

3 Whippets

n/a

n/a

Vaudeville Videos Vol6

dancers

c.1920s?

4 Flash Devils

n/a

n/a

Shuffle Along [1933]

n/a

c.1930s

6 Cheerful Steppers

n/a

n/a

Shake It Up [1929]

Tap?

c.1920s

12 Harlem Steppers

n/a

Harlem N.Y. ?

Gig and Saddle, Scandals [1933]

Tap?

c.1930s

12 Zanzibeauts

N/A

Café Zanzibar [NYC]

n/a

Chorus Girls

1944

Abbot Dancers

Gypsy Abbot

NY (Frank Mazzone),

Fine & Dandy w/ Betsi Rees [1931], Latin Quarter [1951]

Apache?

c.1950s

Acromaniacs

n/a

Chicago, IL.

Empire Room [12/28/1941]

Acrobatic

c.1940s

Adajio Trio, the

n/a

Europe

Toyland [1930]. Gypsy Land [1930]. Classic v Jazz [1930]

Adagio, Acrobatic

c.1930s

Adelphi Girls

Europe

Elstree Calling [1930]

n/a

n/a

n/a

Aida Foster Girls

Aida Foster

Entertainers in Britsih Films: a century in British Cinema

n/a

n/a

n/a

Al White Girls

AL White

aka: Al White Beauties

Top-Notchers [1942], Keep 'em Laughing

Chorus Girls

c.1942

Alasandro

Don

Europe, It's A Twist [1937],

Cherie Alasandro

Dancers

c.1937

Albertina Rash Girls

Albertina Rasch

Los Angeles

see: Albertina Rasch Page!

Ballet, Precison

b.1924

Alhambra Girls

n/a

Entertainers in Britsih Films: a century in British Cinema. Dancing Girls, Trilby [Paul 1896]

n/a

n/a

c.1896

Allen Foster Girls

Allen Foster

n/a

The Great Temptations [1926], A Night in Venice [1929], Broadway Nights [1929]

Chorus Girls

c.1920s

Alme', the

n/a

Egyptian dancers who attained the title of Alme'

Highly educated in their art of dance.

Belly, Oriental, Raks

very old

Aloma Hawaiians

n/a

Europe, Ideal Cinemagazine [1931],

n/a

Dancers

c.1937

Americus Quartet

n/a

New York

See Edison Films, aka Americus Four

Cakewalk

c.1898

Andre Charlot Girls

Andre Charlot?

Entertainers in Britsih Films: a century in British Cinema

n/a

n/a

n/a

Anna Held Girls

Flo Ziegfeld

N.Y. - Jardin De Paris

Ziegfeld Girls , Ziegfeld Follies of 1907

Chorus Girls

c.1907

Aristo Genes Girls Club?

[Maybe a
dance group]

n/a

Beware [1946]

n/a

c.1946

Arlene Phillip's Hot Gossip

Arlene Phillips

Entertainers in Britsih Films: a century in British Cinema

n/a

n/a

n/a

Arnaud, Peggy and Ready

n/a

Entertainers in Britsih Films: a century in British Cinema

n/a

Acrobatic Dancers

n/a

Balavea

n/a

n/a

Dance Troupe

n/a

c.1950s

Bayaderes

Dance Troupe

Latin Quarter

Corky Baysinger, Monika Erickson, Laurie Lambert, Lila Burgesa, Vicki Hanian, Connie Warner, Ann Walken

n/a

c.1958

Bee Ruth Girls

Bee Ruth?

Omaha, NB

n/a

Chorus Girls

c.1930s

Beef Trust

Billy Watson

England/ U.S.

Beer Gardens, Forerunner of the Hootchy-Cootchy

Burlesque, Line, Strip, Hootchy

c.1870s

Beryozka Dancers

n/a

Russia?

Russian Dancers

Russian

n/a

Berry Brothers

Themselves

New York

Cotton Club, Panama Hattie

Tap

c.1930s

Big Apple Dancers, The

n/a

New York

The Spirit Of Youth [1937],
aka: Whiteys Lindy Hoppers

Big Apple

c.1937

Black Rhythm Swingsters

n/a

Black Rhythm [1936]

    (Maybe: Whiteys Lindy Hoppers)  

Swing

c.1936

Blubell Girls

need info

London

dancer- Anne Williams

Tiller Type

c.1950s

Brittny Dancers

n/a

Europe

n/a

n/a

c.1900s

Broome Street Dancers

USA

Broome Street [1941]

n/a

c.1940s

Brown Buddy Girls

need info

Harlem, New York

Hot From Harlem w/ Bojangles [1932]

n/a

c.1932

Buck and Bubbles

Themselves

n/a

Black Cat Tales [1933]

Tap

c.1933

Bunny and the
Cotton Girls

need info

n/a

Slow Poke [1932]

n/a

c.1930s

Burch Mann Dancers

Burch Mann?

n/a

Back Beat Boogie [1944]

n/a

c.1944

Carla Torney Dancers

Miss Carla Torney

Pabst Theater

Balley Unique & other dances

Ballet, Other

c.1922

Celebrated Helen Jackson Girls

Helen Jackson?

n/a

Earl Carroll's Vanities [1932]

n/a

c.1932

Chester Hale Dancers

Chester Hale

Capitol Theater, New York [1934], A Night in Venice [1929], Broadway Nights [1929]

Dania Krupska, aka: Student Co-Eds, Chester Hale Girls

Precision

c.1930s

Cheyenne Mtn. Dancers

n/a

Colorado Springs

n/a

Rodeos,

c.1941

Chocolate Drops, the

n/a

Dixie to Broadway

8 Chorus Girls (also see plantation steppers)

backed up star dancers

c.1923

Chocolate Steppers

New York

Two Boys and a Girl in solo spot with Calloway's Act

Jazz, Tap

c.1923

Co-Ops, The

n/a

Threesome/ Duke Ellington

Ann Henry, Peter Green, and Julian Swain

Modern

1950s

Congeroo's

Hubert White

New York's Savoy, aka: Whiteys Lindy Hoppers

Killer Diller

Lindy Hop

c.1930s

Copasetic's, the

Honi Coles

Steve Condos, Chuck Green, Honi Coles, Bubba Gaines, Buster Brown, Albert Gibson, Ernest Brown and Charles Cook,

n/a

Jazz, Tap

c.1960s

Cossack Dancers

Don Cossack

Hollywood Parade

n/a

Precision?

c.1947

Cotton Club Boys

n/a

Cotton Club, Hot Mikado

Cotton Club, Others (6 original, later 10)

Tap, Jazz, Class Act team

c.1930s

Cotton Club
Chorus Dancers

n/a

Cotton Club

The Lady Fare [1929]

n/a

c.1920s

Cotton Club Girls

n/a

Cotton Club

Cotton Club

n/a

c.1930s

24 - Creole Bells

n/a

n/a

n/a

Fast Steppers,
Tap, Clog

n/a

Crackerjacks, the

1914 -1922 Lulu Coates. (then Archie Ware took over in 1922)

1929, Hot Chocolates, Harlem Cavalcade [1942]

Tap, Flash, Acrobatic Tap

1920s

Cronus Dancers

London Based

70-Ravina Festival, 70-Venice Biennial, 69-Palace,

Biennial de Paris [1969]

n/a

c.1960s

Cuban Conga Dancers

n/a

n/a

Cotton Club Revue

n/a

c.1930s

Cuban Dancers, The

n/a

n/a

Rockin The Blues [1955]

Latin?

c.1950s

Dancing Demons, the

Dewey Weinglass

Orginally 3 dancers

Bombed, but later made it big

Tap, Buck etc

c.1918

Dancing Duo, The

n/a

n/a

Standin' Joe [1945]

n/a

c.1940s

Dancing Redcaps

Elida Webb?

Runnin' Wild Chorus Boys

Pete Nugent, Chink Collins, Sammy Dryer, Derby Wilson and others

Charleston

c.1923

Danseuses Viennoises

(48)

Principal Theatres in Europe and USA

n/a

Galop des Drapeux, Harvest Dance

c.1846

Dausons Dancing Dolls

Dauson?

Atlantic City

Million Dollar Pier

n/a

n/a

Davis Dancing Dells

Davis?

Paradise Cafe

n/a

n/a

c.1940s

Demay, Moore and Martin

n/a

London Palladium , Also USA

billed as Sensational dance trio

Ballroom

c.1938

De Pol's Ballet Troupe

De Pol?

Theatre Comique

n/a

Ballet, Can-Can

c.1868

Deyadasi Dancers

n/a

Latin Quarter

Pricilla Callan, Charlotte Winson, Barbara Hunt, Ann Stevens, Doris Creb, Anna Steffens, Martin Renfro

n/a

c.1958

Dixie Steppers, The

?Harlem?

Song and Dance Troupe that toured the South

Josephine Baker

n/a

c.1920s

Doreen Aston's Jubilee Troupe

Doreen Ashton

Variety Jubilee [1943]

n/a

Can Can

c.1943

Duggie Ascot's Dancing Girls

Duggie Scott, London

1934 Love Mirth Melody

Child dance groupe, Father of Hazel Scott

Tap

c.1930s

Dumitrescu Carpati Group

Carpati?

Romaian Dance Group

n/a

n/a

c.1906

Duncan Dancers

Isadora Duncan

Columbia Theater

Lisa, Margo, Anna

Modern, Ballet

1920s

Dunhill Dance Trio

n/a

Paris France

Call Me Mister - Film

n/a

1940s

Dyerettes, the

Sammy Dyer

Tap Dance drill team

Chicago's Club DeLisa

Tap

c.1940s

Dziria Dancers

n/a

n/a

n/a

Folk

c.1908

Eight Covan Dancers

Covan?

n/a

Bargain With Bullets [1937]

n/a

c.1937

Ernest Belcher Dancers

Ernest Belcher

Is Marge Champion's father, worked with many Movie Stars

n/a

?Ballet, Ballroom

c.1909

"Fame" Cast

n/a

New York City

Fame Movie & TV

Jazz

c.1970s

Fantino's , The Four

n/a

n/a

n/a

Acrobatic

c.1945

Fast Steppers, The

n/a

n/a

Sing and Swing [1943]

n/a

c.1940's

Five Hot Shots

NY

Black and Tan Fantasy [1929]

Class Act Male dancers in Unison

Tap, Class Act

c.1929

Five Kelly's

USA

Joan, James, Gene, Louise, Fred Kelly

Vaudeville

Tap

c.1920s

Florodora Girls

USA

Sing Out the News [1939] ,

n/a

Tiller/ Rockette Type

c.1900's

Fontaines, the

n/a

Ballroom Balancing Act (2 Guys, 1 Girl)

n/a

Ballroom, Balancing, Acrobatic

c.1930s

Four Amaranths

New York

n/a

Vaudeville Bill - BF Keiths Theater.

Novelty Dancers

c.1916

Four Bobs, the

Philadelphia

Copied Tip, Tap and Toe's entire act.

n/a

Tap

c.1930's

Four Covans

Willie Covan

Willie and Florence Covan, Dewey and Wife

Palace Theatre, Dixie to Broadway

Tap, Acrobatic

c.1920s

Four Flash Devils

n/a

Change Your Luck [1930], Shuffle Along [1933]

One of the newer generations of tap dancers, Group acrobatic tap

 Tap, Acrobatic

c.1930's

Four Fords, the

n/a

Maxwell, Mabel (1891-1981), Dora, Edwin

Mabel and Dora became the Ford Sisters, Maxwell became Movie Choreographer

Tap

1940s

Four Step Brothers

Themselves

New York

Cotton Club, Barbershop Blues

Tap

c.1937

Geoffrey Holder Troupe

Geoffrey Holder

n/a

Shango [1953]

n/a

c.1950s

George White Girls

George White

NY

George White Scandals of 1928

n/a

C.1928

Gene Louis Dancers

Gene Louis?

NY?

Nat King Cole
& Morgans [1953]

n/a

c.1953

Gerardo Rumba Dancers

Gerardo

Club Bali, Philadelphia, PA.

Rumba

c.1941

Gertrude Hoffman Girls

Gertrude Hoffman

Artists and Models [1925], Punch and Judy Co. [1903], Broadway to Paris [1912]

Billy Macon, Catherine Wilson, Lee Chapin, See Page

Precision, Tiller Type

c.1920s

Girls of Breton

n/a

courts of Catherine de medici

Great feast of Bayonne

passepied, Branle

c.1565

Girls of Burgandy

n/a

courts of Catherine de medici

Great feast of Bayonne

Galliarde

c.1565

Girls of Champagne

n/a

courts of Catherine de medici

Great feast of Bayonne

Galliarde

c.1565

Girls of Poitou

n/a

courts of Catherine de medici

Great feast of Bayonne

Galliarde

c.1565

Girls of Provence

n/a

courts of Catherine de medici

Great feast of Bayonne

Voltas

c.1565

Gleason Girls

Jackie Gleason

n/a

Jackie Gleason TV Series

Chorus

c.1952

Gold Diggers

?george White?

New York?

Gold Diggers of ...

Chorus, Line

c.1930s

Golden Dancers

n/a

n/a

aka: Original Golden Dancers

Lifts, Paint

c.1928

Goldwyn Girls

MGM

n/a

Thrill Of Brazil

Prescision

n/a

Gombey Dancers

n/a

Bermuda?

n/a

n/a

c.1950s

Hal Sands Dancers

Hal Sands

n/a

n/a

n/a

1940s

Harlemaniacs, The

James, Minns

New York

Harlem Cavalcade [1942], Boy!, What a Girl [1946]

Swing, Jazz

c.1946

Heavenly Apsaras

n/a

Latin Quarter

Lillian Bell, Phyllis Gilbert, Rosemary Ridgewell, Mary Bokino, Pat O'Connor, Thelma Rowland, Dezie Rome

Dance of Saris

c.1958

Helene Hughes Dancers

Helene Hughes

11 girls

n/a

Chorus

c.1941

Hi - Hatters

n/a

/Duke Ellington

Clarence Landry, Vernod Bradley and Udell Jackson

Tap

1930s

Hit Parade Singers and Dancers

n/a

Hollywood?

Your Hit Parade TV Show. Gisele MacKenzie joined in 1953

Various

1950s

Hollywood Rock And Rollers

Joe Lanza?

Gil and Nikki Brady, Joe Lanza, Lou Southern, Frieda Angela Wyckoff

Untamed Youth

Jitterbug, West Coast Swing

c.1957

Hottentrot Dancers

n/a

Peoria IL.

n/a

n/a

c.1910

Hubba-Hubba Girls

maybe dancers?

n/a

Jivin' In Be-Bop [1946]

n/a

c.1940s

Jack Cole Dancers

Jack Cole

Chicago?

Chez Paree Club

Ballroom

1948

Jacksons English Dancers

n/a

n/a

The Tatler Mag: 2/11/1925

n/a

1925

Jitterbug Johnnies

May-Ace / Kit-Kat

New York

$ Juke Joint

Lindy

c.1940s

Jivin' Jack and Jills

Joe Geil, Dick Humphreys

Hollywood

Get Hep To Love [1942], Give Out Sister

Jitterbug

c.1942

John Tiller Girls

John Tiller

n/a

The Revue des Revue [1927]

Precision, Line

c.1920's

June Taylor Dancers

June Taylor

n/a

Jackie Gleason Show

Chorus, Ballet, Jazz, Tap

c.1950s

Jungle Jivesters, The

Maybe Dancers?

NY?

Jungle Jamboree [1943]

Jitterbug

c.1940s

Katherine Dunham
Dancers

Katherine Dunham

n/a

Carnival of Rhythm [1944],

Ballet

c.1940s

King, King and King

Mateo Olvera

Tap dance trio - Brothers

Broadway Nights

Tap

c.1929

Kosloff Dancers

Alexis Kosloff

Oriental, Ballet

n/a

Ballet, Oriental

c.1922

Lathrop Brothers and Virginia

Mack Lathrop

Coached by Nick Castle

M: Virginia & Mack

Tap, Class Act, Ballroom , Soft Shoe

c.1930s

Leggy Rose Girls

n/a

n/a

Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe

n/a

c.1944

Leicolla Brothers Dancers

Leicolla?

n/a

n/a

n/a

c.1940s

Lenox Lindy Hoppers

Edna Mae Harris & Slim Thomas?

NY, see Whiteys Lindy Hoppers

Rhythmania [1930s]

Lindy Hop

c1930s

Leslie Horton Dancers

Leslie Horton

n/a

Rhythm of the Islands [1943]

n/a

c.1940s

Leonard Harper Ensemble

Leonard Harper

n/a

The Exile [1931]

n/a

c.1930s

L.I.M.E. Trio

n/a

Vaudeville Videos Vol6

Goliwog, Acrobatic dance

Golliwog

c.1920s?

London Palace Girls

Palace Theatre, London, ENG.

Billie Bart, Hettie Ward, Kittie Dolan, Rosa Thomson, Rosie Swettenham, Teresa McSpirit, Violet Little,

Topsy and Eva [1924], George White Scandals of 1923

piccaninny chorus Girls

c.1923

Lucky Seven Trio, the

n/a

~(Honi Coles danced briefly),

Class Act Dancer

Tap, Dice Dance

c.1930s

Sande Dancers

Frankie Little

Frankie Little & the Sande Dancers

16 mm soundie "Spicy and Spanish" [1944]

Spanish

c.1944

Mde. Avila's Can Can Girls

Madame Avila? (probably Avril)

NY

Latin Quarter [1951]

Can Can

c.1950s

Mama Lu Parks Dancers

Mama Lu

Mama Lu, Gigi Brown, David Butts , Gloria Thompson,

Harvest Moon Ball, TV, Savoy Ballroom [Harlem], Savoy Manor [Bronx]

Lindy Hop

c.1970's

Margaret Faber Dancers

Margaret Faber

(aka: Faver)

Lido Club, Andre's Supper Club

n/a

c.1930s

Marion Morgan Dancers

Marion Morgan

London Palladium

14 dancers total in group

Ballet , Modern

c.1920s

Markham Dancers

Dewey Markham

New York

Burlesque In Harlem

n/a

c.1955

Marmein Dancers

n/a

Miriam, Irene and Phyllis Marmein

Carnegie Hall, B.F. Keiths Theatre. "Odalesques"

Ballet , Modern, Society Dances, 'Original Drama Dances'

c.1920s

Maureen Lawrence Dancers

Maureen Lawrence

n/a

Swingin' In A Harem [1943]

n/a

c.1940s

Mayris Chaney Dancers

Mayris Chaney

Weekend Pass [1944]

Dancers

c.1940s

Mazowsze Polish State Dance Co.

Tadeusz Sygietynski

USA

(Mazowsze pronounced as Mazofcha)

Mazurka, Polonaise, Polka

c.1950s

Meglin Dancers

Meglin?

Hollywood Ca.

Childrens Dance Troupe

Tap

c.1920s

Merriel Abbott Dancers

Merrial Abbot

Chicago, IL

n/a

n/a

c.1940s

Metro-Golwin Mayer Girls

MGM

Hollywood, Ca

Meet The Baron

n/a

c.1940s

Millers Bros. and Lois

n/a

n/a