THE DANCING MAN: PEG LEG BATES

Location : Shadowland Stages, 157 Canal St. , Ellenville , NY


Documentary/1993
Director Dave Davidson
The remarkable story of Clayton “Peg Leg” Bates, the famous one-legged black tap dancer and Catskill resort owner, who provided a vacation retreat for Blacks still burdened by segregation and Jim Crow laws. Archival film clips and interviews with Ruth Brown, Percy Sutton, Chuck Green, Buster Brown and tap greats Honi Coles and Gregory Hines.
Conversation with moderator Elinor Levy of the Peg Leg Bates Project and director Dave Davidson and co-producer Amber Edwards.