Misty Copeland opens up about the ‘generational trauma’ of Black ballet dancers
Groundbreaking ballet dancer Misty Copeland continues to advocate for Black talent in the classical art form. Ten years after ...
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Black dance festival highlights improvisation as performance, not process
The Black Dance Improvisation Festival in Minneapolis invites artists and audiences to see improvisation not just as a tool, ...
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Austin's Ballet Afrique builds confidence in young Black dancers
"Classical can mean lots of different things ... Smith has been recognized for everything she's been doing for young Black dancers in Austin. "She's a pillar for the community," Blackwell ...
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A Brief History of Black Classical Music
And yet, as Alberga explains in her recent BBC Radio 3 documentary A History of Black Classical Music ... He went on to become a revered dancer, champion fencer, notorious seducer, feared boxer ...
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With ‘Shadows’, Ballet Black creates a ‘haunting’ dance spectacle in ‘handsome’ double bill
Cassa Pancho’s Ballet Black in ‘My Sister, The Serial Killer’, choreographed by Cassa Pancho. Dancers: (L-R) Megan Chiu, Taraja Hudson, Elijah Peterkin, Helga Paris-Morales, Mikayla Isaacs ...
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Visiting scholar, Harvard classics professor talks classical naming of Black individuals
The University of Wisconsin Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies hosted Halls Visiting Scholar Emily Greenwood in a lecture titled “Classical Naming and Free Black Histories: ...