Bessie Clayton (c. 1875 – Juli 16, 1948)[1][2][3] adalah seorang penari dan koreografer Amerika Broadway, vaudeville dan olok-olok khusus yang karirnya hampir 35 tahun dimulai di era yang dikenal sebagai Gay Nineties. Clayton dikenang karena gaya tariannya yang seperti angin puyuh yang sering dilakukan saat menuruni tangga yang panjang. Dia dianggap sebagai ibu dari tarian jari kaki Amerika,[4] dan perpaduan antara tari panggung dan balet klasik.[5][6] Dalam berita kematiannya, The New York Times menyebut prima ballerina kelahiran asli pertama Clayton America.
Referensi
- ^ Note: Approximate birth year based on press reports that Clayton was 19 when she first married in May, 1894 and not yet 20 when she performed in Europe later that summer.
- ^ Staff. "Miss Bessie Clayton, Retired Ballerina", The New York Times, July 17, 1948, p. 15. Accessed October 25, 2015. "Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Andrew Allison, former wife of Roger Pryor, movie actor and band leader, and a granddaughter, Priscilla Mitchell Pryor, with whom she lived at West Long Branch."
- ^ Bessie Clayton Divorced, The New York Times January 1, 1924, p. 4
- ^ a style of tap-dancing performed on tip toes
- ^ Shields, David S. "Bessie Clayton". Broadway Photographs. Diakses tanggal 24 January 2020.
- ^ Stewart, Bob. "Weber and Fields: When Burlesque Meant Burlesque". blog.robertbrucestewart.com.
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