Category: Dancers

Kitty Phetla Ballet Theatre Afrikan Joburg Ballet Kitty Phetla is a South African Ballet dancer born in Soweto in 1983. She began […]

Samuel Akins Los Angeles Ballet  Samuel Akins is from Birmingham, Alabama. He started his dance training at seven years old at the […]

Bernice Harrison First Negro Classical Ballet Company Bernice Harrison was a leading dancer with the First Negro Classical Ballet Company, founded by […]

James Truitte  The First Negro Classic Ballet Company Lester Horton Dance Theater Capitol Ballet: Guest (1962) Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (1960-1968) […]

Peter Koppers Dutch National Ballet Deutsche Oper Berlin Ballet Peter Koppers is a Dutch ballet dancer and danced with the Dutch National […]

Percy Muntslag Dutch National Ballet Percy Muntslag was an important figure in the Surinamese theater from the 1960s. He was, among other […]

Lavinia Williams American Negro Ballet Negro Unit of Ballet Theatre Katherine Dunham Company Lavinia Williams was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1916 […]

Chandra Moss-Thorne Dance Theatre of Harlem Cincinnati Ballet Chandra Moss-Thorne began her dance training at the School of Cleveland Ballet under the […]

Gayle McKinney Griffith Dance Theatre of Harlem: Soloist, Ballet Mistress Gayle McKinney Griffith is one of the founding members of the Dance […]

Paunika Jones Dance Theatre of Harlem: Principal Collage Dance Collective Oakland Ballet Columbia City Ballet Complexions Contemporary Ballet DeMa Dance Co.  Ballet […]