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Raven Wilkinson

wanted one thing: to dance ballet. That desire, in 1950s America, was enough to put her life in danger. In 1955, she became the first African American woman…

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Maria Tallchief

Before Maria Tallchief, America did not produce prima ballerinas. The title belonged to Europeans — Russians, French, Italians, English. American ballet existed, but it existed in the shadow of European…

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Joan Myers Brown

is not the most famous name in dance. She may be the most important. While individual dancers broke barriers on stage, Brown built the infrastructure behind the stage — the…

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Janet Collins

In 1951, Janet Collins became the first Black prima ballerina to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. That sentence is easy to read. What it…

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Arthur Mitchell

had two careers, and either one alone would have secured his place in dance history. In the first, he became the first Black principal dancer at New York…

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The Whitman Sisters

Mabel (1880–1942)  ·  Essie (1882–1963)  ·  Alberta (1887–1964)  ·  Alice (1900–1968)

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Norma Miller

danced for over eighty years. She was twelve years old when she first walked into the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem, and she was still performing, teaching, and commanding…

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Josephine Baker

was born into poverty in St. Louis, Missouri in 1906 and died in Paris, France in 1975 as one of the most consequential performers of the twentieth century.…

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James Brown

The Godfather of Soul and the Body That Started Hip-Hop Dance

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Frankie Manning

did not just dance the Lindy Hop. He shaped it into an art form, invented its most spectacular innovation, and then — after decades of obscurity — spent the last twenty-three years…

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Florence Mills

was not simply a performer. She was a phenomenon — a Black woman who, in the 1920s, became one of the most celebrated entertainers in the world at a time…

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