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Doris de Mendez was a member of the New York Negro Ballet. She appeared as a dancer in the 1961 Broadway show Kwamina, in the off-Broadway show Billy Noname (1970), Our Play On The Future Has No Name (1970), and in the ensemble of Sing Out, Sweet Land!

Sources:

Under the Tent: Notes on Musicarnival’s Production Years, by Bill Rudman and Rebecca Paller
Our Play On The Future Has No Name, La MaMa
Doris de Mendez, Broadway World

See also:

Which was the First?—a historical essay on the first Black Dance Company in the USA