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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.
This is a list of ballet companies in the United States. Company City ... American Ballet Theatre: New York: ... Ohio: 2005-present
Katherine Dunham Company: African American modern dance: United States: Founder Katherine Dunham 1939–1960 Kansas City Ballet: ballet Missouri: United States: AD William Whitener early 1957–present Kaunas Dance Theatre Aura: modern Kaunas: Lithuania: Founder Birutė Letukaitė early 1980s–present Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company ...
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African-American dance is a form of dance that was created by Africans in the Diaspora, specifically the United States.It has developed within various spaces throughout African-American communities in the United States, rather than studios, schools, or companies.
The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund Established in 2017, the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund stands between historic Black cultural sites and efforts to destroy them.
The only male African American in the company during her career, Danny Tidwell, left in 2005. [6] [85] In an international ballet community with a lack of diversity, [86] [87] she was so unusual as an African American ballerina that she endured cultural isolation. [88] She has been described in the press as the Jackie Robinson of classical ...