kbarber Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York: Pioneering African American Ballerinas Aesha Ash, Debra Austin, Virginia Johnson, and Lydia Abarca Mitchell Thursday, February 27 | 7 pmKatie Murphy Amphitheatre Fred P. Pomerantz Art and Design Center Join four pioneering African American ballerinas as they discuss their groundbreaking careers and their paths to national and international stardom. The panel includes: Virginia Johnson, prima ballerina and current director of the Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH); Lydia Abarca, first prima ballerina of DTH; Debra Austin, first ever African American ballerina with New York City Ballet (NYCB) and principal ballerina with the Pennsylvania Ballet; and Aesha Ash, former ballerina with NYCB http://www.fitnyc.edu/museum/events/index.php Link to comment
kbarber Posted February 2, 2020 Author Share Posted February 2, 2020 also Blacks in Ballet: The Shadow World Theresa Ruth Howard Thursday, March 19 | 6 pm Katie Murphy Amphitheatre Fred P. Pomerantz Art and Design Center Join Theresa Ruth Howard for an enlightening lecture documenting the history of Blacks in ballet. A former ballerina, Howard is now a writer, lecturer, and consultant. She is also the founder and curator of Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet (MoBBallet.org), a website filled with the biographies of nearly 500 dancers of color. Link to comment
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