Gloria Steinem explains what dancing meant to her growing up, and why she's been challenged to dance-offs while touring.

Nov 13, 2015 · Gloria Steinem tap dances to the vocal stylings of Melissa McCarthy #IRL Live on November 13, 2015 at The Theater at Ace Hotel for On The Road: Gloria Steinem in Conversation with...

Sep 28, 2020 · It's about the incredible women who impacted her life, starting with an African-American girl who helped her fulfill her dreams of tap dancing,” says Taymor. To present others who shaped the...

Gloria loves to dance but had never tried Tap. When fate brought her and Kim Stock together one day, they hit it off immediately and she quickly joined the group.

Oct 3, 2020 · In this film young Gloria is a quiet outlier. In one unsettling scene she unceremoniously disappears from her dependent mother to tap dance with a black friend in her father’s barbershop.

We learn about her years as a child charged with taking care of her invalid mom and her embrace of tap dancing as a way to get out of her hometown of Toledo, Ohio.

Nov 12, 2015 · We see a young Steinem tap-dancing in an elevator it was one of her talents and flirting with George Burns in a TV interview.

Feb 21, 2013 · Gloria escaped into books as she tried to manage her mother's periodic relapses. In her teens, she tap-danced at local clubs and worked as a salesgirl to bring in extra money. "In many ways I was the mother and she was the child," Gloria wrote.

Mar 25, 2024 · To celebrate Gloria Steinem’s 90th birthday, we’re revisiting 15 pieces of her writing for New York, where she was a contributing editor from 1968 to 1971.

At age ten, Gloria had to take on the role of a mother, going shopping and keeping house. She found a way to vent out her emotions through tap dancing. She hoped her dancing ability would get her out of Ohio and away from her unfortunate childhood. While she attended high school, she had dreams of becoming a Rockette in New York City.