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 ...

The first act focused on the historical figure of William Henry Lane, also known as Master Juba, a Black performer in the 1850s who toured with a white minstrel group. The second act took place at a ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...