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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.
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 ...
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.
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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.
This is a list of African Americans, also known as Black Americans (for the outdated and unscientific racial term) or Afro-Americans.African Americans are an ethnic group consisting of citizens of the United States mainly descended from various West African and Central African peoples with possible minor additional ancestry from Europe or indigenous Americans and other regions of Africa.
African-American ballerinas (30 P) F. Five Moons (6 P) P. American prima ballerinas (62 P) Pages in category "American ballerinas" The following 200 pages are in this ...
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.