Ronald Platts
New York Negro Ballet (ca. 1959)
![](https://t8541063.p.clickup-attachments.com/t8541063/572907d0-7de9-451e-b8a3-eaad01149a0c/image.png)
He also performed in the 1961 Broadway production Kwamina as a Policeman and dancer. The show featured other well-known dancers such as Louis Johnson, Doris de Mendez, Charles Moore, and Glory Van Scott. That same year, Platts appeared as a Jubilee Dancer in an off-Broadway production of Show Boat (also alongside Glory Van Scott as well as fellow New York Negro Ballet dancer Bernard Johnson).
![](https://t8541063.p.clickup-attachments.com/t8541063/7df4dc10-2743-4a63-88b3-e046b8a58953/Screen%20Shot%202021-04-01%20at%206.00.52%20PM.png)
![](https://t8541063.p.clickup-attachments.com/t8541063/7bf4ac71-7183-492d-b5fb-10e9edd2e06e/Screen%20Shot%202021-04-01%20at%206.06.56%20PM.png)
Marion Cuyjet: Black Ballet Pioneer
Ronald Platts, Playbill
The Week’s Best Photos, Jet Magazine, September 3, 1959
Converging Movements: Modern Dance and Jewish Culture at the 92nd Street Y, by Naomi M. Jackson
Ronald Platts, Jacob’s Pillow Archive
See also:
Which was the First?—a historical essay on the first Black Dance Company in the USA
1957: Ward Fleming found Ballet Americana/New York Negro Ballet