Category: Dancers

Patricia Ricketts National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica Dance Theatre of Harlem Patricia (Patsy) Ricketts started dancing at age 18 in 1963 […]

Harper Watters Houston Ballet 2 Houston Ballet: Corps de Ballet (2011-2016), Demi-Soloist (2016-2017), Soloist (2017-present) Harper Watters is from Dover, New Hampshire […]

Barbara Wright [Craig] New York Negro Ballet Barbara Wright trained at the Jones-Haywood School and the School of American Ballet’s summer intensive […]

Bernice Johnson (née Willis) Negro Unit of Ballet Theatre Bernice Willis was born in 1911 and trained at the Grace Giles Dancing […]

Rodney Swan Dance Theatre of Harlem [Photo unavailable] Rodney Swan was one of the founding members of Dance Theatre of Harlem. He […]

Edith Hurd Negro Unit of Ballet Theatre [Photo unavailable] Edith Hurd was born in 1916 and was a member of the Negro […]

Valerie Black American Negro Ballet Negro Unit of Ballet Theatre Valerie Cavell Black, born in 1917 in Colon, Panama, attended Bryant High […]

Charles Neal New York Negro Ballet Donald McKayle Company Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Guest Béjart Ballet Ballet South: Guest [Photo unavailable] […]

Edith Ross Negro Unit of Ballet Theatre American Negro Ballet (1940) Katherine Dunham Company (1940-1943) Edith Ross was a member of Eugene […]

Evelyn Crittenden (née Pilcher) Negro Unit of Ballet Theatre American Negro Ballet Company Katherine Dunham Company (1940-1943) [Photo unavailable] Evelyn Pilcher, born […]