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Debra Austin was the very first African-American ballerina to receive a principal dancer contract with a major American ballet company [3] in 1982 with the Pennsylvania Ballet. There she danced the principal roles in Swan Lake, Giselle, Coppélia, and La Sylphide. Dancing these roles with a white partner was a further breakthrough.
Dunham’s choreography was well known and celebrated for blending Black dance from around the world, including Africa, the Caribbean, and South America, with ballet. She founded a dance school in ...
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In November 2021, Edwards became an apprentice at Pacific Northwest Ballet, joining the corps de ballet the following year. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] During their first traditionally female role, the snow and flower corps de ballet in The Nutcracker in 2021, the other ensemble ballerinas "embraced Edwards — and offered them a crash course in the tips and ...
Lauren Anderson (born February 19, 1965) is an American ballet dancer and a former principal dancer with the Houston Ballet.In 1990, she was one of the first African-American ballerinas to become a principal for a major dance company, an important milestone in American ballet.
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Juanita Pitts, African-American tap dancer who performed in the 1930s to the 1950s; Maya Plisetskaya (1925–2015), Russian ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress, who is considered one of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century. Since 1960 she was the prima ballerina assoluta of the Bolshoi Theatre.
In 2015, Copeland sprang into the highest echelons of dance when she became the first African American woman to be a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre, one of the most prestigious and ...