Master Juba: The incredible tap dancer
“The world never saw his equal,” -Edward Le Roy Rice, one of many, many people's sayings about, William Henry Lane.
William Henry Lane or, Master Juba, was one of the most influential dancers to be known back in the 1840’s. Lane tapped his way through many shows, amazing everyone who came to watch. By 1846, he was touring New England and Europe with Pell’s Ethiopian Serenaders and received the top billing as the only African American with white performers who danced onstage in the Minstrel shows. He was born a free black man in Rhode Island in the year of 1825.
By the time he was 10 he was already dancing in Paradise Square, in a 5 point district in New York. He used different parts of his feet
“The world never saw his equal,” -Edward Le Roy Rice, one of many, many people's sayings about, William Henry Lane.
William Henry Lane or, Master Juba, was one of the most influential dancers to be known back in the 1840’s. Lane tapped his way through many shows, amazing everyone who came to watch. By 1846, he was touring New England and Europe with Pell’s Ethiopian Serenaders and received the top billing as the only African American with white performers who danced onstage in the Minstrel shows. He was born a free black man in Rhode Island in the year of 1825.
By the time he was 10 he was already dancing in Paradise Square, in a 5 point district in New York. He used different parts of his feet