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''[[The Challenge Dance]]'' is the name of a [[Christy's]] style [[Minstrel]] dance routine done by the [[Amateur Coloured Troupe]] in the 1870s in Cape Town.
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''[[The Challenge Dance]]'' is the name of a [[Christy's]] style [[Minstrel]] dance routine done by the [[Amateur Coloured Troupe]] in the 1870s in Cape Town. Billed as a "[[Nigger]] Scene"
  
 
Based on the tradition of "challenge dances" brought over to South Africa by the [[Christy's Minstrels]].   
 
Based on the tradition of "challenge dances" brought over to South Africa by the [[Christy's Minstrels]].   

Revision as of 15:11, 4 October 2018

The Challenge Dance is the name of a Christy's style Minstrel dance routine done by the Amateur Coloured Troupe in the 1870s in Cape Town. Billed as a "Nigger Scene"

Based on the tradition of "challenge dances" brought over to South Africa by the Christy's Minstrels.

See further Amateur Coloured Troupe

Sources

Constance Valis Hill 2014. Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History Oxford University Press (p. 19)[1]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 278-9


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