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Helen Tamiris: "Negro Spirituals" (eight dances choreographed from 1928-1941)
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Period: to
American Concert Dance
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Martha Graham: Heretic
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Martha Graham: "Lamentation"
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Edna Guy & Hemsley Winfield: "First Negro Dance Recital in America"
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Kurt Jooss: "The Green Table"
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Edna Guy produces solo concert
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Hemsley Winfield: "Let Freedom Reign" (included European dancers such as, Ruth St. Denis & Fred Astair)
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Adatata Dafura: "What Should the Negro Dancers Dance About?"
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Doris Humphrey: "Air for a G String"
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Adatata Dafura: "Kykunkkor"
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Martha Graham: "Frontier"
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Martha Graham: "Chronicle"
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Honya Holms: "Trend"
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Helen Tamiris: "How Long Brethren?"
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92 Street YMHA Negro Dance Evening
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Martha Graham: "American Document"
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Humphrey-Weidman: "Lynchown" & "Shakers"
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Kathrine Dunham: "Barrelhouse Blues"
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Begin WWII
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Martha Graham: "Letter to the World"
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Martha Graham: "Deaths and Entrances"
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Pearl Primus performes solos: "Strange Fruit," "Rock Daniel," & "Hard Time Blues" at YMHA
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Martha Graham: "Appalachian Spring"
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Charles Wiedman: "Daddy was a Fireman"
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Martha Graham: "The Scarlet Letter"
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Katherine Dunham & Company open for musical play: "Caribian Song" (coincides with the openning of Dunham School in NYC)
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End WWII
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Martha Graham: "Cave of the Heart"
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Katherine Dunham performs "Bal Negre" at The Belasco Theater
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Martha Graham: "Night Journey"
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Hanya Holms: "Kiss Me Kate" (on Broadway)
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Jose Limon: "Moore's Pavane"
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Martha Graham: "Diversion of Angles"
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Jose Limon: "The Traitor"
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Hanya Holms: "My Fair Lady" (on Braodway)
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Jose Limon: "Emperor Jones"
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Civil Rights Act of 1957 - Congress passes the first legislation protecting black rights since reconstruction
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Helen Tamiris solo work: "Go Down Moses" (part of her "Negro Spirituals"
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Hanya Holms: "Camelot" (on Broadway)
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Tamiris-Nagrin Dance Company is founded
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Chuck Davis meets Watutsi dancers at World Fair in New York
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Merce Cunningham: "Winter Branch"
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Rod Rogers: "Now!Nigga"
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Rod Rogers: "Box"
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Rod Rodgers: "Victims"