Aida Overton Walker (February 14, 1880 – October 11, 1914), also billed as Ada Overton Walker and as "The Queen of the Cakewalk", was an American vaudeville performer, actress, singer, dancer, choreographer, and wife of vaudevillian George Walker. She appeared with her husband and his performing partner Bert Williams, and in groups such as Black Patti's Troubadours. She was also a solo dancer and choreographer for vaudeville shows such as Bob Cole, Joe Jordan, and J. Rosamond Johnson's The Red Moon (1908) and S. H. Dudley's His Honor the Barber (1911). [1]
^Office of the Dean, "Bad girls of the 20th century: UCI professor's new book highlights four performance icons who embodied and defied stereotypes", review of Jeanne Scheper, Moving Performances: Divas, Iconicity, and Remembering the Modern Stage (Rutgers University Press, 2016), UCI School of Humanities.
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skills in both ballet and tap-dancing. Dancer and choreographer AidaOvertonWalker was known as the Vaudeville Queen of the Cakewalk. The black musicians...
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United States. Initially a dancer in AidaOvertonWalker's shows, she appeared in The Red Moon by AidaOvertonWalker in 1904 and later toured the vaudeville...
five-time medalist at Chess Olympiad, in New York City (d. 1993) Died: AidaOvertonWalker, American dancer and choreographer, known for her collaborations...
of St. Philip's Episcopal Church of Harlem, that was organized by AidaOvertonWalker, Richard C. McPherson and John E. Nail and held at the old Grand...
the Grand Theater manager. When the stage performer AidaOvertonWalker, widow of George Walker, died in October 1914, Foster made sure to pay tribute...
Walker played a Kansas tourist while his wife, Aida, portrayed an Abyssinian princess. A scene between the two of them, while comic, presented Walker...
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hair care market. In 1898, Anthony Overton founded a hair care company that offered saponified coconut shampoo and AIDA hair pomade. Men began using pomades...
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