Dance Groups / Troupes of 3 or More |
Name |
Manager |
Location / Other |
Performed / Other |
Dance (s) |
Dates |
|
| 3 Dukes |
n/a |
Cotton Club, Cab Calloway |
Loews |
Trick Dancing |
c.1930s |
3 Eddies, the |
Gussie Francis, Chick
Horsey |
Chick
Horsey, Jimmy Walsh, Pop Bennett, Clarence Wesly,
Tiny Ray. (Chick stabbed
Johnny Hudgins in arguement) |
A "Picks"
group for the singer, later becoming an Blackface act
on their own. Blackbirds of 1927 |
Tap,
Wings, Legomania,
Eccentric |
c.1910s |
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 |
| 5 Percolators |
n/a |
Cotton
Club, Cab
Calloway |
Loews |
Song and Dance Quint. |
c.1930s |
6 Cheerful Steppers |
n/a |
n/a |
Shake It Up [1929] |
Tap? |
c.1920s |
| 6 Military Dancers |
n/a |
USA |
Orpheum Theatre |
n/a |
c. 1930s? |
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 |
| 16 Palladium Girls |
Tiller |
London Palladium, also
Palladium Boys and Girls, Palladium Tiller Girls |
London Palladium |
Chorus Girls |
c.1938 |
| Sixteen Navassar Girls |
n/a |
n/a |
Orpheum Theatre (10/23/1916) |
n/a |
c.1916 |
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 |
| Betty Fox's Eight Dancing
Teenagers |
Betty Fox |
Moss Empire Theatre |
- |
- |
c.1957 |
Big Apple Dancers, The |
n/a |
New York |
The Spirit Of Youth
[1937],
aka: Whiteys
Lindy Hoppers |
Big
Apple |
c.1937 |
| Big Drew's Dancing Lovelies |
Big Drew ? |
Breighton Hippodrome, London? |
- |
- |
c.1950's |
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 |
| Bodenwieser Dancers, the |
Female Troupe |
USA ? |
Emmie Taussig, Evelyn Ippen,
Bettina Vernon & Melitta Melzer |
Ballet,
Modern ? |
6/1941 |
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 |
| Chez Paree Adorables |
Mike Fritzel, Joey Jacobson
|
Chez Paree Nightclub (Chicago) |
June Taylor was and original
member . Dancers came from Murriel Abbott School of dance. |
8 girl Dance group |
1931 |
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, Leslie 'Bubba'
Gaines, Buster Brown, Albert 'Gib' Gibson, Ernest 'Brownie'
Brown and Charles 'Cookie' 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) |
aka: the 3, 4, 5, 6 Crackerjacks, (Original
Archie Ware, Harry Irons, Wilfred Blanks, Clifford
Carter) Bobby Goins, Deighton
Boyce, George Staten, Joe Chism, Lloyd MacDonald,
Norman Wallace, Raymond Thomas, Tosh Hammond, Walter
Humphrey.
|
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 |
| Czarina and Girls |
Czarina? |
Maxims |
- |
|
c. 1901 |
Dancing Demons, the |
Dewey
Weinglass |
Orginally 3 dancers,
later named 4 dancing demons |
Bombed, but later made
it big. Dewey
Weinglass,
George
Henry Lattere,
Bertha Roe, Nettie
Perry Tolliver. |
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 |
| De Vere Dancers
(aka Marie Devere Dancers) |
Marie De Vere ? |
Alladin and his Wonderful
Lamp. (also may be linked to
de Vere's 10 Football Lovelies) |
Moss Empire Theatre |
- |
c. 1950s |
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 |
| Doris O'Shea Girls |
Doris O'Shea |
London's Palace Theatre
- Revels of 1934 |
- |
Chorus |
c.1934 |
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, the |
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 Dancing Demons |
Dewey
Weinglass |
Originally three dancers. |
Dewey
Weinglass,
George
Henry Lattere,
Bertha Roe, Nettie
Perry Tolliver. |
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 |
Gene Louis Dancers |
Gene Louis? |
NY? |
Nat King Cole
& Morgans [1953] |
n/a |
c.1953 |
| George Carden Dancers |
George Carden |
London Palladium |
- |
Chorus |
c.1955 |
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 |
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 Mack & His Dancing
Demons |
Hal Mack |
Moss Empire Theatre |
|
|
c. 1940s? |
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, Donald O'Connor |
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 |
| Kink A Jou Girls |
|
n/a |
Little Old New York |
|
c.1928 |
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 |
| Lew Dockstader & His
Minstrel Co |
Lew Docstader |
- |
Manhattan Beach Theatre
[7/13/1903] |
- |
c.1903 |
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 |
Top Billed Tap dance
act |
Tap |
n/a |
Minstrel Misses |
Ned
Wayburn |
New York? |
n/a |
n/a |
c.1906 |
Morlacchi's Ballet Troupe |
Mlle. Morlacchi |
Comique Theater-Boston |
De Pols Ballet Troupe,
Mlle. Baretta, Augustine, Mazzeri Sisters, Moffitt,
Panzera, Bartholomew |
Polka,
Tarentella,
Ballet,
Can-Can |
c.1850 |
Moulin Rouge Dancers |
n/a |
New York, Paris, North
Carolina |
Moulin
Rouge- NC |
Chorus Line |
c.1940s |
| Muriel Abbott Dancers |
Muriel Abbott |
Chicago, IL |
June
Taylor was an Abbott Dancer |
Various |
c.1930 |
Nautch Girls |
n/a |
India |
Festival dancers |
Oriental,
Ethnic |
Old |
New Abbey Girls |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Folk
Dancers |
c.1934 |
Nicholas
Brothers |
Self |
New York? |
Cotton
Club, Down
Argentine Way |
Tap |
c.1930s |
Original Copa Girls |
|
USA |
Copacabana
[1947] |
Chorus |
c.1947 |
Ozzy
Malones Jitterbugs |
Ozzy Malone |
New York? |
House
Rent Party [1946] |
Jitterbug |
c.1946 |
| Pamela Devis Dancers |
Pamela Devis |
ABC Blackpool Theatre |
- |
- |
c.1965 |
Paramount
Astoria Girls |
n/a |
n/a |
First T.V. Revue |
Can-Can
Type |
c.1940s |
...Paraders |
The Hips |
n/a |
Harlem Follies [1950] |
Maybe? |
c.1950s |
Peggy Taylor and Her
Dancing Pirates |
Peggy Taylor |
n/a |
Calling All Stars [1935] |
n/a |
c.1935 |
Percy Athos Beauties |
Percy Athos |
n/a |
Eve's Film Review 254
[1926], Let's Make a Night of It [1937] |
n/a |
c.1920s |
Perry Mansfield Dancers |
Perry Mansfield |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
c.1930s |
Pilobolous |
n/a |
n/a |
$
Video |
Eccentric
Jazz |
c.1970s |
Plantation Steppers,
the |
n/a |
Dixie to Broadway [1923]
|
8 Chorus Boys (also
see the Chocolate Drops) |
backed up star dancers |
c.1923 |
Portia Mansfield Dancers |
n/a |
USA? |
Marjorie Leet-dancer |
Greek |
1920s |
Ray Rand
Swingers |
Ray Randazzle |
Hollywood, Ca. (aka:
The Big Four: Maxie Dorf & Mary McCaslin, Hal
& Betty Takier, Lawrence 'Lolly' Wise &
Lillian Arnold, Gil Fernandez & Venna Cascon) |
Contests,
Dianna Ballroom, |
West
Coast, Balboa,
Jitterbug,
Lindy
Hop |
c.1935-40 |
Rhythm Pals, the |
n/a |
"Cholly"
Atkins, William Porter |
n/a |
Tap |
c.1930 |
Rhythmettes, the |
n/a |
Black Rhythm [1936] |
n/a |
Swing |
c.1936 |
Rialto Versatile Five |
?Pearl Regay? |
Palace Theater -1/24/1921 |
Tap Syncopators Dancers
w/ Pearl Regay |
Tap |
c.1920s |
Rocket's, the |
Sonny Allen |
(Four females and one
male) |
Ruth Sullivan, Sonny
Allen, |
Lindy
Hop |
c.1956 |
Rockets, The |
n/a |
New York |
Henry Roberts &
Andrew Jackson |
n/a |
1930s |
Rocketts |
n/a |
New York |
Radio City Music Hall |
Precision |
c.1930s |
Roseland Girls |
n/a |
Empire Theater Rhode
Island |
Gaities a la Mode |
n/a |
c.1928 |
Roussets, the |
n/a |
NYC Area? |
"Caroline, Clementine,
Adelaide, Teresine" |
Ballet,
Redowa
Orientale |
c.1851 |
Rufus LeMaire Dancing
Girls |
Rufus LeMaire |
Rufus LeMaire's Affairs
[1927] |
n/a |
Tiller
Type |
c.1927 |
Russell Market Girls,
(16) |
Russell Market |
Just A Minute [1928],
Keep It Clean [1929] |
n/a |
Tiller
Type |
c.1928 |
Russian Trio Kamarowa |
Maybe Dancers |
n/a |
Revue des Revues [1927] |
Russian |
c.1920s |
Sara Mildred Strauss
Dancers |
Sara Mildred Strauss |
n/a |
Calling All Stars [1935] |
Chorus |
c.1935 |
Saronga Dancing Girls |
n/a |
Sarong Song Movie, Pardon
My Sarong |
n/a |
Dancers |
c.1930s |
Savoy
Lindy Hoppers and Big Applers |
aka:
ALT Group for Whitey's Lindy Hoppers |
Savoy
Ballroom, Hellzapoppin',
Day
at the Races, Killer
Diller |
The Policy Man [1938],
Black Rhythm [1936] |
Lindy,
Big
Apple, Shim
Sham |
c.1938 |
| Scooter Teague's Modern
Dance Ensemble |
Scooter Teague |
Brighton Hippdrome Theatre,
London |
- |
Modern |
c.1962 |
Sextuplets, The |
n/a |
Paradise Club, Atlantic
City |
n/a |
Suzy
Q, etc. |
c.1940 |
Sherman Fisher Girls |
London? |
Palladium |
Peggy
Doreen |
Tiller
type |
c.1930s |
Shuffle
Along Girls |
Harlem |
Shuffle Along [1921] |
n/a |
Chorus |
c.1921 |
| Six Little Rosebuds, the |
|
each girl weighed 250lbs
+. Shook floor when danced. |
Midway Worlds Fair |
Dancers |
1910's |
Six Samba Sirens, the |
USA |
Copa Cabana Review [1950s] |
n/a |
Samba |
c.1950s |
Sixteen Moorish Dancing
Girls |
Tortajada |
La Belle Paree [1911] |
Biilled as: Tortajada
and Her Sixteen Moorish Dancing Girls in a Spanish Ballet |
n/a |
c.1911 |
Steading Sisters |
n/a |
partners- Weinstein
& Seidel |
Biltmore Hotel |
Ballroom |
n/a |
Stephen Martel Dancers |
Stephen Martel |
Paris |
Lido
Club - Paris |
n/a |
c.1949 |
Steppers |
The Sepia... |
n/a |
Popppin The Cork [1943],
Stepping Along [1943] |
Tap |
c.1940s |
Stepping Stars |
n/a |
n/a |
Vaudeville Videos vol6 |
Tap,
Stair |
c.1920s? |
Stetson
Boy Dancers |
Buddy
Ebsen? |
New York |
Whoopie! |
Tap |
c.193's |
Stoney Mountain Cloggers |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Square
Dancers |
c.1950s? |
Stretch Cox Troupe |
Stretch Cox |
New York |
n/a |
Limbo |
n/a |
Slim
and Slam |
Self |
New York |
Hellzapoppin' |
Musicians |
c.1930s |
Slip and Slide |
??? |
n/a |
Burlesque
In Harlem |
n/a |
c.1955 |
Small's Paradise Entertainers |
n/a |
New York |
Smalls
Nightclub, Smash Your Baggage [1932] |
n/a |
c.1930s |
Swing Maniacs |
Maybe
dancers? |
NY |
Jumpin at the Jubilee
[1944] |
Jitterbug |
c.1940s |
Tally Beatty Dancers |
Tally Beatty |
n/a |
"Tropicana"-
[Sweden 6/49] (Dancers and Drummers) |
n/a |
c.1949 |
Terry Girls, the |
n/a |
Trois Jeunes Filles
Nues [1929]. |
Follies Bergere type |
Chorus |
c.1929 |
The Dancing Four |
Frank & Albert &
McGuiness, & Buchanaz? |
n/a |
n/a |
Tap |
c.1920s |
Three Browns |
Joe Peterson |
Joe Peterson, Reuben
Brown, Russell Brown |
Act disbanded due to
fast paced dancing and body wear and tear over time |
Acrobatic,
Tap |
c.1920s |
Three Brown Jacks |
n/a |
n/a |
Jim Lunceford &
His Dance Orchestra [1936], |
Tap
Dancers |
c.1930s |
Three Dukes, the |
Nat Nazzaro |
Copied Pete Peaches
and Duke (Nugent) |
Mills Blue Rhythm Band
[1934 Vitaphone] |
Tap,
Class Act |
c.1930s |
Three Eddies, the |
Gussie Francis, Chick
Horsey |
Chick Horsey, Jimmy
Walsh, Pop Bennett, Clarence Wesly, Tiny Ray |
A "Picks"
group for the singer, later becoming an Blackface act
on their own |
Tap,
Wings, Legomania, Eccentric |
c.1910s |
Three Klassy Kids, the |
n/a |
aka: (Dickie) Wells,
Mordecai and Taylor |
Class Act Dancers |
Tap |
c.1930s |
Three Little Words |
n/a |
Dance Trio (Jones) |
dance for sound [1937],
Connies
Inn [1931], Dickie Wells Club |
Tap,
Shim
Sham, Acrobatics |
c.1937 |
Three Midnight Steppers |
n/a |
|
Hot Chocolates [1929] |
Tap |
c1929 |
Three Millers, the |
n/a |
Honi Coles and ??? |
n/a |
Tap |
c.1931 |
Three Rockets |
n/a |
Tap Dance Trio |
DuMont network TV show
circa: 1949 |
Tap |
c.1930s |
Tiller
Girls |
John Tiller Sr. &
Jr. |
England, USA, aka: Twelve
Tiller Girls |
Ziegfeld
Follies of 1922, Nifties of 1923 |
Precision |
c.1920s |
Tip,
Tap and Toe |
Self? |
Started in late 20s.
(Original Members: Sammy Green, Teddy Frazier, Raymond
Winfeld) Freddie James |
Palace and Paramout
theatres, George White Scandals [1936], Claude Hopkins
& His Orch. |
Tap |
c.1935 |
Tosh Hammond & Co. |
Tosh Hammond |
n/a |
Dance Your Old Age Away |
n/a |
c.1944 |
Varietetties Dancing
Girls |
Katherine Dunham |
n/a |
Killer
Diller [1948] |
n/a |
c.1948 |
Vienna
Revue Dancers |
n/a |
Venus & Reisen |
n/a |
n/a |
c.1920s |
Vic, Ace and Danny |
n/a |
n/a |
Smash Your Baggage [1932] |
Lindy
Hop |
c.1930s |
Victor Trio |
Victor, Macey, Nova |
n/a |
n/a |
Ballroom |
n/a |
Wally Cox Group |
Wally Cox |
1953- Ford 50th Annaversary
#2 |
n/a |
n/a |
c.1953 |
Wally
Wanger Girls |
Wally Wanger |
NY Latin
Quarter, Copacabana |
n/a |
n/a |
c.1940s |
Walter Saier Group |
Walter Saier |
1939 Worlds Fair |
n/a |
n/a |
c.1939 |
Wanda's Glamourettes |
n/a |
n/a |
Vaudeville-Theater |
n/a |
n/a |
Wazzan Troupe |
Whirling Dervishes |
1950s Latin
Quarter (with Mae
West) |
Burlesque |
n/a |
1950s |
| Westway Corps de Ballet |
- |
S.H. Nesome's ' babes in
the Wood' |
- |
Ballet |
c.1950s |
| White Heather Girls |
May Hoxon |
Edinburgh Empire Theatre |
(Not Sure if dancers) |
- |
c.1940s |
Whitey's
Lindy Hoppers |
Hubert White |
Savoy
Ballroom |
Hellzapoppin',
Day
At Races |
Lindy
Hop |
c.1930s |
Whites
Hopping Maniacs |
Hubert White |
Savoy
Ballroom |
Cotton
Club Revue, Hot Chocolates |
Lindy
Hop |
c.1937 |
Wigman Dancers |
Hanya Holm |
n/a |
n/a |
Ballet,
Modern |
c.1930s |
Will Vodrey Girls |
Will Vodrey |
n/a |
Rufus Jones For President
[1933] |
Precision |
c.1930s |
Winnie Hoveler Dancers |
Winnie Hoveler |
n/a |
Riff [1943] |
n/a |
c.1940s |
Yacopia Acrobatic Troupe |
n/a |
Circus Acrobatics |
n/a |
Acrobatic |
c.1941 |
Yama Yama Girls |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Tiller/
Rockette
Type |
c.1905 |
Ziegfeld
Girls |
Flo Ziegfield |
Ziegfeld Theater |
Ziegfeld Follies of
19XX, Rio Rita, Smiles... |
Various |
30yrs |
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so check those as well. |
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