Geoffrey Holder
Geoffrey Holder Holder Dancing Company (~1937-1960) Metropolitan Opera Ballet: Principal (1956-1958) Geoffrey Holder (1930-2014), a native of Trinidad, was an actor, dancer, […]
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Lavinia Williams’ Orbit: Eugene Von Grona/American Negro Ballet
Lavinia Williams and Eugene Von Grona In 1936, Williams was invited to sketch dancers during a rehearsal of Eugene Von Grona’s American […]
Lavinia Williams’ Orbit: Virginia Lee & The Arts Students League
Lavinia Williams and Virginia Lee The Williams family lived in New York through Lavinia’s teenage years, where she attended Washington Irving High […]
Arthur Mitchell & Lavinia Williams’ Orbits: Katherine Dunham
Katherine Dunham Lavinia Williams and Katherine Dunham While Lavinia Williams was dancing with American Ballet Theatre, Katherine Dunham came to New York […]
Lavinia Williams’ Orbit: Bianca Gallizia
Lavinia Williams and Bianca Gallizia: While traveling through Europe with the U.S.O., Williams had the privilege of studying and dancing with Kyra […]
Jones-Haywood Orbit: Chita Rivera
Jones-Haywood School of Ballet and Chita Rivera Chita Rivera took ballet, voice, and piano classes as a child and became a student […]
Jones-Haywood, Sylvester Campbell, & Louis Johnson’s Orbits: Jones-Haywood Dance School
Louis Johnson and Jones-Haywood Dance School Louis Johnson is one of the many notable alumni who began their ballet training at the […]
Jones-Haywood Orbit: Claire H. Haywood
Jones-Haywood School of Ballet and Claire H. Haywood Claire Haywood had been a student of Doris W. Jones’ and it was […]
Mabel Freeman’s Orbit: Doris Patterson
Mabel Freeman and Doris Patterson Doris Patterson began studying with Mabel Freeman in the late 1920s and the 1930s, when she was […]
About This Orbit: Mabel Freeman
About This Orbit: Mabel Jones Freeman Mabel Jones Freeman was the first known Black woman to teach dance in Washington DC, and […]