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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.
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 ...
This is a list of ballet companies in the United States. Company City State Years active Web site ... American Contemporary Ballet: Los Angeles: California: 2011 ...
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.
However, ballet has grown increasingly diverse in recent years, as professional ballet companies have increased representation of dancers of color. Specific companies aiming to nurture Black ballet dancers and foster diversity have been established, including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Dance Theater of Harlem, and Alonzo King LINES Ballet.
African American Vernacular English, or Black American English, is one of America's greatest sources of linguistic creativity, and Black Twitter especially has played a pivotal role in how words ...
African-American ballet dancers (2 C, 1 P) C. African-American choreographers (1 C, 98 P) Pages in category "African-American dancers" The following 120 pages are in ...