Maurice Hines, dancer and choreographer — and evangelist for the art of tap dancing — died Friday at age 80. Hines and his brother, the famed Gregory Hines, helped keep tap in the public eye.

NEW YORK — Breathtaking tap dancer Gregory Hines, who dazzled on Broadway and in films and television, while always insisting he was ‘‘just a hoofer at heart,'' died Saturday of cancer. He ...

Gregory Hines, the genial, suave dancer, singer and actor who for many personified the art of classical tap in the 1980s and ’90s, died late Saturday on his way to a hospital from his home in ...

Gregory did not impress — his failed audition was later captured in spirit by a scene in the 1999 movie "Tap," which starred Gregory Hines. In real life, Maurice insisted he would bow out of ...

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