Aida Overton Walker

Aida Overton Walker
Walker, 1907
Lahir	(1880-02-14)14 Februari 1880 Richmond, Virginia, A.S.
Meninggal	11 Oktober 1914(1914-10-11) (umur 34) New York City, New York, A.S.
Pekerjaan	Vaudeville
Dikenal atas	Penari dan koreografet

Aida Overton Walker (14 Februari 1880 – 11 Oktober 1914), juga dikenal dengan sebutan "Ratu Cakewalk", adalah seorang vaudeville, aktris, penyanyi, penari, koreografer asal Amerika. Ia juga merupakan istri dari vaudevillian George Walker. Dia muncul bersama suaminya dan pasangannya Bert Williams, dalam grup seperti Black Patti's Troubadours. Dia juga seorang penari solo serta koreografer untuk pertunjukan vaudeville seperti Bob Cole, Joe Jordan, dan J. Rosamond Johnson The Red Moon (1908) dan His Honor the Barber (1911) dari S. H. Dudley. Aida Overton Walker juga terkenal karena penampilannya pada tahun 1912 dari tarian "Salome" di Hammerstein's Victoria Theater. Ini merupakan tanggapan Aida terhadap kegilaan "Salomania" nasional tahun 1907 yang menyebar melalui sirkuit vaudeville putih.^[1]

Réferensi

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.

Pranala luar

• Aida Overton Walker Broke Stereotypes: Victorian Era Stage Aida Overton Walker at Global Performers Database
• "Aida Overton Walker: THE LATER YEARS OF AIDA OVERTON WALKER; 1911–1914", Black Acts, archived March 17, 2015. Accessed December 11, 2017.
• "Joe Jordan, with picture of Aida Overton Walker", Jass.com
• Obituary in The Freeman, October 17, 1914.
• "Aida Overton Walker", Find a Grave database.
• Photograph of Aida Overton Walker as Salome https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8e5e8970-0161-0132-015a-58d385a7bbd0
• Medda Larkin, a character in Newsies, who took in newsboys with nowhere to stay, was based on Aida Overton Walker. https://newsboys-of-1899.tumblr.com/post/171559864966/this-is-aida-overton-walker-she-is-the-real-life
• Aida Overton Walker Broke Stereotypes: Victorian Era Stage https://racingnelliebly.com/strange_times/aida-overton-walker-broke-stereotypes-of-victorian-era-stage/
• How to Cake Walk, by Aida Overton Walker The Tattler, July 1, 1903 (Syncopated Times reprint)