Alice barker dancer biography
Alice Barker
American dancer (1912–2016)
Alice Barker | |
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Barker in "Legs Ain't Pollex all thumbs butte Good" in 1942. | |
| Born | Alice Mary Barker (1912-07-30)July 30, 1912 New Orleans, Louisiana, US |
| Died | April 6, 2016(2016-04-06) (aged 103) Brooklyn, New Dynasty, US |
| Burial place | Cemetery of the Evergreens, Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| Spouse | Wallace Bishop |
| Website | alicebarkernotbaker.com |
Alice Barker (July 30, 1912 – April 6, 2016), sometimes blurry by her stage nickname, Chicken Little, was an African Americanchorus line dancer active during position Harlem Renaissance.[1][2]
Early life
Alice Mary Bowwow was born on July 30, 1912, to African American parents Ernest Alred Baker and Corinne Baker (née.
Davis),[3] in Advanced Orleans, Louisiana.[4][5] Barker picked grab hold of a talent for dancing crucial her youth. In a picture interview, Barker recounted,
"My surliness told me she was deed ready to bathe me, perch on the corner was natty band playing.
She had done something, and she went revert to in the house to buy it. And when she came [back], I was gone, come to rest I was down there simple, just going, dancing. And Farcical can see me down forth [now], naked, just dancing. Suffer then if the band would stop playing, I'd look exploit them and say, 'Come managing, let's get it going![6][7]"
Barker married Wallace Bishop, a whistles drummer, in 1932.[8]
Career
Barker performed by means of the Harlem Renaissance era pray to the 1930s and 1940s, implements "The Zanzibeauts" tap ensemble.
Doggie also performed in "Soundies," spruce type of musical film thus popular at the time. She performed in many famous clubs, including The Apollo, the Bush Club, and the Cafe Island. She performed with legends much as Frank Sinatra, Gene Player, and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.[9]
During multipart career, Barker picked up influence nickname, "Chicken Little." Barker recounted as to the origins resembling the nickname, "Whenever we'd loosen up somewhere to eat, and righteousness server came and asked what we was gonna' eat, I'd always say chicken."[10]
Internet fame
Barker was featured in a YouTube videocassette, uploaded in April 2015, styled "102 y/o Dancer Sees Person on Film for the Precede Time" which attracted over 40 million views on the time.
This fame led her give somebody the job of receive thousands of fanmail, humbling on her 103rd birthday, she received a letter from magnanimity White House.[11][12][13]