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This was a great idea. This musical made everyone become interested in black dance.
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Katherine Dunham choreographed the Broadway musicals Le Jazz Hot and Tropics.
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One of the first black modern dancers. She was also one of the first dancers to make an in-depth study of black dance traditions, embracing West Indian, African, and primitive dance.
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Her students learned philosophy, anthropology, and languages as well as tap, ballet, and percussion.
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She brought back knowledge and experience of the native dances and rituals in Africa
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Arthur Mitchell founded this dance school shortly after Martin Luther King's assassination. The school was a huge success and gave its first performance in 1971.
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Chuck Green, James Buster Brown, Jimmy Slyde come put of retirement to perform at a Times Square hotel
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Joan Myers Brown founded Philadanco, a repertory company in Philadelphia devoted to the works of black choreographers.
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It was founded in Chicago to bring together African American and African immigrant dancers.
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Held at Indiana University
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Alvin Ailey and Talley Beatty choreographed the music videos.
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Jawole Zollar, a student of Dianne McIntyre, founded her own company. Three years later she joins other artists to go on a short European tour.
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It was a full-evening work that deconstructs Harriet Stowe's novel and ends with a scene of nude dancing for the company members and volunteers.
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Urban Bush Women premiers this work. it juxtaposes the vocabularies of African dance and modern dance.
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He is a break dancer and toured his work "Rome and Jewels" which is his interpretation of Shakespeare and "West Side Story".
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She noticed I was a very weird child, so she put me in dance classes at Pine Camp Recreation Center.
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Reggie Wilson collaborates with a dance company in Trinidad and a music group in Zimbabwe to tour this work. It was a mix of Africanist and postmodernist elements.
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A group of black scholars led by Thomas DeFrantz organizes their first conference at Duke University
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I went to a high school that had a Center For the Arts department and I was a "dance major". We had many performances, guest artists, workshops, and many more. This is when my dancing was at its "prime".
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I graduate from VCU with a bachelors in Dance and choreography! Then whatever the future has for me, shall happen!
