Category: Timeline

1990 Dance Theatre of Harlem dancers perform with the Royal Ballet in The Nutcracker Four Dance Theatre of Harlem dancers—Christina Johnson, Ronald […]

1991 Evan Williams becomes first Black British dancer to join the Birmingham Royal Ballet British dancer Evan Williams trained at the Royal […]

1998  Carlos Acosta joins the Royal Ballet In 1998, Carlos Acosta left the Houston Ballet to join The Royal Ballet of London […]

2001 Cassa Pancho founds Ballet Black Inspired by Arthur Mitchell, Cassa Pancho establishes Ballet Black, a company for Black and Asian dancers […]

2006 Collage Dance Collective is founded in New York City Collage Dance Collective was founded in 2006 by Kevin Thomas and Marcellus […]

2007 Misty Copeland is promoted to soloist at American Ballet Theatre Misty Copeland joined the American Ballet Theatre in 2000 and became […]

2013 Tyrone Singleton is promoted to principal with Birmingham Royal Ballet  Tyrone Singleton was promoted to principal dancer with the Birmingham Royal […]

2014 Yonah Acosta is promoted to the rank of principal with the English National Ballet Yonah Acosta joins the English National Ballet […]

2015 MoBBallet launches After writing an article that prompted a collection of Black dancers’ names, Theresa Ruth Howard creates MoBBallet. On April […]

2016 Céline Gittens is promoted to principal at Birmingham Royal Ballet Céline Gittens joined Birmingham Royal Ballet in 2006. She became first […]