An immersive article spotlights choreographers who are carrying forward the legacy of Black dance forms that flourished 100 years ago. By Marcelle Hopkins Marcelle Hopkins is a visual editor for the ...

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This Black History Month, we recognize one of the most extravagant dances ever to exist, the Lindy Hop. The style born during the Harlem Renaissance has evolved to live on in its home neighborhood.

It was driven by the Great Migration, which was the historic movement of Black people who fled the segregated and wildly racist South to Northern cities such as Harlem, Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, ...

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Early influences on Black concert dance -- Hemsley Winfield -- Edna Guy, Randolph Sawyer, and Ollie Burgoyne -- Charles Williams -- Asadata Dafora -- Katherine Dunham -- Pearl Primus -- 1950s-1990s: ...

Anna Glass runs Dance Theatre of Harlem, and she’s doing things differently. This dance company has never been about following the traditional playbook. Since Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook started ...

A Harlem ballet company founded during the civil rights movement to provide an inclusive space for ballerinas of different races and ethnicities is fighting in court for control of its history. Dance ...