Ada Overton Walker was created on Valentines Date inside the 1880 into the The York’s Greenwich Village
Given that a child she obtained dancing knowledge out-of good Mrs. Thorp when you look at the midtown New york. As much as 1897, just after graduating off Thorp’s dancing university, she toured temporarily having Black Patti’s Troubadours. A girlfriend acceptance their own in order to model to possess an advertising that have Bert Williams and you may George Walker, who’d merely scored a bump inside their vaudeville introduction on Koster and you can Bial’s Music Hallway. She agreed to model into the advertisement and next joined the latest guys so you can dance about cakewalk finale. Immediately after signing up for John W. Isham’s Octoroon, an effective critic into Indianapolis Freeman stated, “I’d simply seen the most effective girl performer.” That have Elegance Halliday she shaped the newest brother dancing operate out of Overton and you may Halliday.