NEW YORK - A new book out this week, "Swans of Harlem," shares the stories of women who performed during the first decade of the Dance Theatre of Harlem. The ballet company is now in its 55th year, ...
A little-known fact: Dance Theatre of Harlem’s first ever performance for a paying audience took place at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Becket in 1970. “Jacob’s Pillow was an inaugural space for ...
They pirouetted faster, jumped higher and practiced harder and longer just to break into the white world of ballet, to show that the classical art form long denied to dancers of color could be ...