6 - Showing Off With Each Other (Part 2‪)‬ Butt Out, Baby!

Tito tap dances while Johnny and Penny do the mambo. 
+ Famous tap dancer, Honi Coles+ The history of tap and minstrelsy+ Shirley Temple (drink and person)+ Why some dance is authorized at Kellerman's and some is not + The history of Latin American dance in American movies+ Is Dirty Dancing kinda gay?
Works used and mentioned:
How to Make a Shirley Temple
Blackface: The Birth of An American Stereotype
PBS: Blackface Minstrelsy 
Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-Century America by Robert C. Toll





What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing by Brian Seibert
NY Times: HONI COLES: RECALLING 50 YEARS OF TAP
Honi Coles does Bill Robinson, 1979
Honi Coles with Chuck Green and Will Gaines 1983
It Happened in the Catskills: An Oral History in the Words of Busboys, Bellhops, Guests, Proprietors, Comedians, Agents, and Others Who Lived It edited by Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer
Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader edited by Julie Malnig
Cuban Pete from The Mask 
Cuban Pete by Louis Armstrong
Blog post about Joseph Norman 
El Manisero performed by Machin
Stop-motion creepy (or charming??) monkey 
Time Magazine: Sugar-Bowl Migrants
Readings on West Side story 
Carina's NY Times article on West Side Story
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CARINA DEL VALLE SCHORSKE - website 
ADDIE TSAI - website 
SONJA THOMAS - Colby College faculty page 
 
For your scene 6 pt 2 thoughts: ellie@buttoutbaby.com
 
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Music by Claire Whitehead aka Claire Maeve aka Midswim