The legendary Bettye Morrow began performing at nine years of age in USO shows and continued with extensive performing credits on Broadway, at Radio City Music Hall, in film and New York City night clubs. Bettye has worked with noted choreographers Hanya Holm, Eugene Loring, and Robert Alton to name a few. She has worked with film great Gene Kelly and has danced and performed with Sammy Davis, Jr. before becoming a prot�g� of "Bubba" Gains, famed Copacetics member.
Other performing credits include engagements at the Barabican, England's Lincoln Center, in London. Plus, Bettye has sustained an iternational career as a choreographer with works seen in the US, England, and Japan. Noted NYC tap club, Swing 46, gave honors to Morrow and she was honored again a special tribute performance in Tap City's 2004 "Tap Legends & Tap Masters" show at the Duke Theatre in Manhattan. She was also the first tap dancer since 1938 to be featured at Mana Leone's in Broadway Nights, an honor previously held by "Bubba" Gaines.
Bettye resides in New York City and continues her long-time position handing down the trade of tap through her weekly classes at Broadway Dance Center in Manhattan and her on-going Open Classes at Fazil's Tap Studio in Manhattan.
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