In addition to Rice's dance, Sloan drew inspiration from a dance popularized in the mid-19th century by William Henry Lane, an African American performer known as "Master Juba." Lane famously ...

William Henry Lane, a.k.a. Master Juba, was an entertainer with the ability to mimic any dance move he laid his eyes on. When Charles Dickens caught his act during a visit to America, he called ...

And I did that by way of the tappers, because the tappers have been there from day one, from Master Juba [in the 1840s, ...

Before tap dancing even had a name, it had an early great practitioner: a black dancer in 1840s New York known as Master Juba, who a visiting Charles Dickens described as “dancing with two left ...

A speaker brought focus to Master Juba, a man known as the “father of tap dance.” The term ‘to break,’ meaning “to get hype, to get excited,” is the origin of breakdancing.

Master Juba may be one that is unfamiliar to you. So, let me add Bill “Bojangles” Robinson and Charles ‘Honi” Coles to these talented individuals. Do you get a sense of where I am going?

the lost intersection of Five Points, and sites associated with Bill “The Butcher” Poole, William M. Tweed, Master Juba, and the 1857 Police and 1863 Draft Riots. Full Schedule Here ...

The book explores minstrelsy’s long period of popularity; artists such as Bert Williams and Master Juba; its audience’s reactions; and the ways its innovative performances have influenced ...

It was there that Master Juba incorporated the moves in the 1840s that came to be known as tap dancing. AN INSTANT SLUM But 65 Mott St., the first designated tenement erected in New York ...