The Leon Collins Tap Dance Archive was created in 1988 by producer/director David Wadsworth following the premiere of his documentary “Songs Unwritten: A Tap Dancer Remembered,” about the life of legendary jazz tap dancer Leon Collins. Its goal is to preserve and disseminate recorded material relating to Leon’s life and legacy.
Permanent copies of the material in this collection now reside at The New York Library for the Performing Arts in NYC: www.nypl.org/research/collections/shared-collectio…
We are pleased to present selections from the collection here as well.