The Nicholas Brothers, Fayard and Harold. A dancing duo who excelled in a variety of techniques, including the highly acrobatic "flash dancing". With a high level of artistry and daring innovations, they were considered by many to be the greatest tap dancers of their day. Growing up surrounded by vaudeville acts as children, they became stars of the jazz circuit during the Harlem Renaissance and performed on stage, film, and television well into the 1990s.
Their performance featured in the 1943 movie Stormy Weather has been praised as one of the most virtuosic film dance routines of all time. This number included one of their signature moves - leapfroging down a long, broad flight of stairs, while completing each step with a split. The Nicholas Brothers leapt exuberantly across the orchestra's music stands and danced on the top of a grand piano in a call and response act with the pianist, to the tune of "Jumpin' Jive".[3] This whole dance being filmed in one take and unrehearsed. Fred Astaire once told the brothers that this dance number was the greatest movie musical sequence he had ever seen.
Another of the dancing duo's signature moves was to rise from a split without using their hands.[3] Gregory Hines declared that if their biography were ever filmed, their dance numbers would have to be computer-generated because no one now could emulate them.[3] Ballet legend Mikhail Baryshnikov once called them the most amazing dancers he had ever seen in his life.
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