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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.
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This is a list of companies in the Chicago metropolitan area. The Chicago metropolitan area – also known as "Chicagoland" – is the metropolitan area associated with the city of Chicago , Illinois , and its suburbs. [ 2 ]
The largest African-American community is in Atlanta, Georgia; followed by Washington, DC; Houston, Texas; Chicago, Illinois; Miami, Florida; [1] [circular reference] and Detroit, Michigan. [2] About 80 percent of the city population is African-American. A quarter of Metro Detroit (Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties) are African-American.
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.
Raven Wilkinson became the first African American female ballet dancer to perform with a major touring troupe when she danced with Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in the 1950s. [19] In the South at this time, there were laws prohibiting Black and white dancers from sharing a stage, so Wilkinson risked her life and her freedom by performing.
Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African-American Dance. Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. Emery, Lynne Fauley. Black Dance in the United States from 1619 to 1970. California: National Press Books, 1972. Glass, Barbara S. African American Dance. McFarland & Company, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7864-7157-7. Gottschild, Brenda Dixon.
NOTE: Additional names may possibly be listed in the parent Category:African-American dancers. Those pages should be moved to this subcategory. Where possible, this subcategory should principally contain Category:African-American ballerinas and Category:African-American male ballet dancers.