September 11, 2019
"Everyone said I was crazy" - 50 years of the first black ballet
BBC has a nice video-article about the Dance Theatre of Harlem, the first Black classical ballet company, founded by Arthur Mitchell in a converted garage in Harlem in 1969. They talked to Virginia Johnson, one of the first dancers to join the company, now DTH's artistic director, who says that at the beginning "there were […]