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.

Maurice Hines, the dancer, actor and choreographer who starred on Broadway and in Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Cotton Club,” has died at 80. The tap-dancing icon, whose younger brother ...

Who was Maurice Hines? He started his tap dancing lessons at the early age of five. Hines made his debut on Broadway in “The Girl in Pink Tights,” back in 1954. He and his brother Gregory ...

Maurice Hines was a dancer, a choreographer and an evangelist for the art of tap dancing. He and his brother, the famed Gregory Hines, helped keep tap in the public eye. Maurice Hines died on Friday ...