Meet an “Amazing” With Tap-Tap-Tap-Dancin’ Feet

Doris Humphries, 92, not only has been dancing since she was eleven years old, she introduced the Arthur Murray style of ballroom dancing to the South Side of Chicago – after she’d retired from the stage and raised her children! As a professional dancer back in the ‘30s and ‘40s, she and a partner, the two were known as “Tonya and Tanya,” were an interracial dance pair – something very rare at the time – who performed dances that combined Latin and soul. Her ballroom instructing days morphed into other forms of dance, and today she teaches tap-dancing in Chicago. She still performs as well, her most recent stage appearance being in a show called (appropriately!) “On Broadway” in 2017. Dancing is her love, her passion, and her mantra; in her words “As long as God says OK, I’m going on!”

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