In later years Mr. Cromer performed in Off Broadway revues and traveled widely as a teacher, often using his own choreographed piece “Opus One,” as a textbook. “Aside from ‘Opus One,’ danced to the Tommy Dorsey tune, there’s not a huge body of choreography that Harold left behind, but that one work, with its swinging rhythms and classic vernacular moves, was a classic primer in rhythm tap,” Constance Valis Hill, a tap historian and professor of dance at Hampshire College, wrote in an e-mail. “He kept the tradition alive for younger dancers. His life in entertainment — as a busker tapping for pennies, a vaudevillian, song-and-dance man, comedy tap dancer bringing that black vernacular style to Broadway — is iconic, representative of his time. If you saw him singing and dancing ‘Mr. Bojangles,’ you’d know his story.”
Posted on: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 03:37:49 +0000
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