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Henry LeTang (June 19, 1915April 26, 2007) was an American theatre, film, and television choreographer and a dance teacher.
LeTang devised dance routines for the Broadway theatre musical theatre My Dear Public and Dream with Music in the mid-1940s, but his first credit as a full-fledged choreographer was the 1952 revival of the 1921 revue Shuffle Along with Eubie Blake. Twenty-six years later, LeTang would receive Tony Award and Drama Desk Award nominations for his work on Eubie!, a song-and-dance tribute to the musician. Additional credits include Sophisticated Ladies (1981), which earned him a second Tony nomination, and Black and Blue (1989), which finally won him the prize. LeTang was also inducted into the "International Tap Dance Hall of Fame" in 2015
LeTang's screen credits include Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club (1984) Terry Monaghan, "Henry LeTang" (obituary), The Guardian, May 9, 2007. and Tap (1989). For television he choreographed The Garry Moore Show for seven years, staged the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon numerous times, and created dance routines for George Balanchine and Milton Berle. His last project was the Showtime bio-film Bojangles in 2001.
The Oklahoma City University Ann Lacy School of American Dance and Arts Management Ann Lacy School of Dance and Entertainment - Oklahoma City University, headed by Dean John Bedford and dance department chairman Jo Rowan, presented LeTang with a Living Treasure in American Dance Award in 1995 and with an Honorary degree of Performing Arts in American Dance degree in 2002. In the years prior to his death, he resided in Las Vegas, Nevada, teaching from his home studio and travelling several times a year to hold classes in New York City. Henry LeTang also lived in Airmont (Monsey), New York, in the 1980s and 1990s. He died of natural causes in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the age of 91.
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