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The Soft Shoe is traced back to the Old Virginia Essence danceA
and the minstrels who perfected it. The Essence was a very smooth
and graceful dance that all professional minstrel song and dance
men would do. Its graceful motions and elegance would evole into
the beginnings of the Soft Shoe which is a form of Tap Dance.
Allthough
it was done earlier, George Primrose is considered the man who
developed the soft shoe and influenced both Black and White minstrel
dancers alike. Charles Johnson, Greenlee and Drayton, Jack Wiggins,
Willie Covan and Eddie Rector
were pioneers and masters at the Soft Shoe.
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