Class Act: The Jazz Life of Choreographer Cholly Atkins

Cholly Atkins and Jacqui Malone

Paper, 280 pages, 52 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-12365-5
$24.00 / £14.00

August, 2001
Cloth, 280 pages, 52 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-12364-8
$80.50 / £47.50

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Going North

2. The Rhythm Pals

3. Cholly and Dotty

4. Struttin' for Uncle Sam

5. Coles and Atkins

6. The End of Our Road

7. Rhythm Tap and More

8. In Walked Maye

9. Hitsville, U.S.A.

10. Back to Freelancing

11. The Way I Do the Things I Do

12. Black and Blue

Epilogue

Glossary

Selected Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• Music

About the Author

Cholly Atkins has been a jazz dance artist, choreographer, and director of stage acts for decades. He has been honored by the Smithsonian Institution, the National Endowment for the Arts, and many dance organizations. Jacqui Malone, who began interviewing Cholly Atkins in 1988, was awarded a Ford Foundation Grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship to write this book. Author of Steppin'on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance, she is a professor of drama, theater, and dance at Queens College.

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