Constance Valis Hill is Five College professor emerita of dance studies at Hampshire College. She has taught at the Alvin Ailey School of American Dance, Conservatoire d'arts Dramatique, and New York University. She is author of Tap Dancing America, A Cultural History, among others.
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When the Nicholas Brothers danced, uptown at the Cotton Club, downtown at the Roxy, in segregated movie theatres in the South, and dance halls across the country, audiences cheered, clapped, stomped their feet, and shouted out uncontrollably. Their exuber... SEE MORE