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Cotton Club Boys

Stage Name

Birth Name

Cotton Club Boys Various (see Below)

    In the 1930's The Cotton Club Boys were the Cotton Clubs stock class act dance troupe. Meaning they were put together for the Cotton Club and would dance in unison, gracefully doing exactly the same thing in unison, in great looking clothes. Originally six male dancers increased to ten who excelled at drill formations.

   Charles "Cholly" Atkins would join this group and do some of the choreography. Later, came the "Cotton Club Girls." (for a little more information click a letter above, matching a name below.) (Need Information on these forgotten dancers, If you have any, please share it here.)

Cotton Club Dancers

Birth Place

Birth Date

Year

Adger, Jules b. New York, d.California 8/19/1913 - 5/27/1991 1930's
Alstock                  
Armstrong                  
Atkins, Cholly < See Page                
Brown                  
Carter                  
Coleman, Warren Boston, Mass. 1900-1968 1930's (brother of Ralph Coleman)
Collins                  
Frazier                  
Heron                  
Horton                  
Johnson                  
Lee                  
Porter                  
Shepard                  
Smith                  
Wright                  
 

Dance Types

Dance Partners

Music Titles

Tap (Class Act) Cotton Club Girls n/a
Jazz            
Chorus            
Line            
 

Night Clubs

Theaters

Stage

Cotton Club n/a Hot Mikado (NY Worlds Fair)
                 
                 
                 
 

Films

Contests

(Other)

1929 - Black and Tan Fantasy (the Five Hot Shots do something similar) n/a n/a
                 
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