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Lindy Hop, Charleston, Foxtrot, etc.
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Founded by Martha Graham
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Moved to New York City to pursue his music career
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Performs with the Martha Graham Company
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Lester Horton formed his company to teach his technique
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Collaborates with George Balanchine for Broadway production of Cabin in the Sky
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Retired from dancing and becomes the artistic director of the José Limón Dance Company. Continues to develop her technique within the company.
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Presented Strange Fruit and Hard Time Blues
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Beatty shared the leading role in Showboat with Pearl Primus and made appeared as the lead in Spring in Brazil choreographed by Esther Junger.
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Made his professional dance debut at the Mansfield Theatre, in dances by Sophie Maslow and Jean Erdman.
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Made his Broadway debut in House of Flowers
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Eleo Pomare studied under Kurt Jooss and Harold Kreutzberg in Europe
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A dance of protest inspired by the rhythms of the Southern Negro chain gangs.
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" Beauteous symbol of today's total dancer, she conveys the sensuous pleasure of movement with simplicity, elegance and superb control."
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Chuck Davis was a former dancer for Eleo Pomare Dance Company
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Founded by Arthur Mitchell
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Founded by Joans Myers Brown
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Performed in the Second International Ballet Competition in Moscow, Russia. She placed 26th out of 126 participants and was the only African American to compete.
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Established by Peggy Cooper Cafritz and Mike Malone.
Only DC public school focused on performing arts. -
Geoffrey Holder, a native of Trinidad, was a dancer Choreographer, photographer, singer, painter, actor, writer, and costume designer.
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EVIDENCE, A Dance Company was founded
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International Association of Blacks in Dance was organized by Joan Myers Brown
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Studied Ballet, Pointe, Modern, Jazz and African dance techniques.
Katrina Toews, Maggie Williamson, Robin Tasha Ford, Monica Johnson, Jerome Johnson, Ralph Glenmore, Sylvia Soma, Shawn Short, Paula Brown -
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She sees a performance by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
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The International Association of Blacks in Dance
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Copeland becomes the first African American Principle dancer at American Ballet Theater
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Studies Ballet, Modern and African dance with Charles Auggins (chair), Katherine Smith, Nikki Sutton-Mackey, Treanna Reid-Alexander, Sandra Fortune-Green, Melvin Deal, Christopher Huggins
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MK Abadoo, Martha Curtis, Christy Funsch, Courtney Harris, Robbie Kinter, Lea Marshall, Scott Putman, Jenna Riegel, Melanie Richards, Eric Rivera, Dr. E. Gaynell Sherrod, Judith Steel, Autumn Proctor Waddell
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