Summary: The Gelatinous Dancer

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1. Explain the person's area of expertise or claim to fame.
Tucker was label as the “The Human Boa Constrictor” or even the “ The Gelatinous Dancer” and created the famous dance called the “snakehips” in the 1930s. He was gay and performer at music clubs in Harlem. So when he would get the audience's attention he would smoothly snap his hips as a snake movement which was very risque at that time. Also During his preform became he would move his hips bigger and more exaggerated to almost look like it was being dislodged from the rest of his body.

2. Cite an example of collaboration with another person that you discovered.
He really did not collaborate with many people. He appeared in a film with Duke Ellington called, Symphony.

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