maurice hines gained fame with his brother gregory as the hines brothers, delighting audiences on stagefilm. jeffrey brown has our remembrance as part of our arts and culture series, "canvas." jeffrey: the art, the energy, the sheer joy of their movement. maurice and younger brother gregory hines helped revitalize and bring tap back to the forefront of popular culture. they began dancing as young children in harlem, gained a large following through tv appearances and on stage, and starred in the 1984 francis ford coppola film, "the cotton club." the film was a nod to an earlier part of the tap tradition, including one famed model for the hines brothers, the nicholas brothers. intent on continuing that tradition, gregory hines would become a mentor to contemporary tap phenom, savion glover. and maurice hines took that role seriously as well. we met him in 2010 when he was 66 and working with young dancers on a new production of sophisticated ladies, a review based on the life of duke ellington, at washington, dc's lincoln theater. two high school brothers, john and leo manzari, now well-