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1989: Tony: Best Choreography. Black and Blue. Charles "Cholly" Atkins (born Charles Sylvan Atkinson; September 13, 1913 – April 19, 2003) [2] was an American dancer and vaudeville performer, who later became noted as the house choreographer for the various artists on the label Motown. [3]
Apr 22, 2010 · Cholly Atkins, born Charles Atkinson in Pratt City, Alabama, was a tap and jazz dancer/choreographer best known for his contributions as the house choreographer and coach for Motown dancing vocal groups from 1965 to 1971. Atkins was responsible for creating the synchronized classic jazz and rhythm-tap (minus the taps) routines for groups ...
Apr 23, 2003 · April 23, 2003. Cholly Atkins, a superb dancer who brought the polished precision of his legendary tap act with Honi Coles to choreographing the sassy, synchronized moves of the most celebrated...
Cholly Atkins. Cholly Atkins was born on this date in 1913. He was a Black choreographer and dancer. Born Charles Atkinson in Pratt City, AL, Atkins learned to dance from his mother. After winning a Charleston dance contest in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1923, Atkins became a singing waiter, soon teaming up with William Porter in a tap act called the ...
Apr 23, 2003 · Cholly Atkins, who joined Charles “Honi” Coles in probably the most distinctively elegant tap-dance duo of the late 1940s through the mid-1960s, but later achieved his greatest fame as a...
Apr 23, 2003 · Cholly Atkins, a Broadway tap dancer and choreographer whose collaborations with Charles "Honi" Coles were the stuff of showbiz legend, died in Las Vegas April 19 at the age of 89, according to...
Apr 22, 2003. Cholly Atkins, who choreographed the smooth moves of countless Motown artists and won a Tony Award when he was 75, has died. He was 89. Atkins died of pancreatic cancer Saturday...
