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Dancer, actor

Learned First Tap Steps as a Toddler

Career Sizzled With Broadway Triumphs

Held His Own Opposite Baryshnikov

Won Tony Award

Directed Showtime Film

Selected works

Sources

Gregory Hines appeared in films, on stage, and in nightclubs virtually since he could walk.

Although he could carry comedies and dramas and received star billing, Hines was best known for his work as a tap dancer.

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In fact, he has perhaps done more than any other performer to ensure a bright future for that most American of dance styles. As Sally Sommer noted in Dance Magazine, Hines was “an adamant advocate for the contemporaneity of tap” and wanted “to push tap beyond the expected conventions and cliched images….”

Hines told Dance:“I can’t ever remember not tapping.” He was born in New York City on February 14, 1946, and raised in the middle-class, integrated Washington Heights neighborhood.

His father,