A Conversation With The Kennedy Center’s Jane Raleigh

Scholars Forum: A Conversation With The Kennedy Center’s Jane Raleigh

Reframing the Narrative, a week-long celebration featuring performances on the Kennedy Center Opera House stage. Along with black Ballet companies: Dance Theatre of Harlem, Ballethnic and Collage Dance Collective Curator Theresa Ruth Howard commissioned world renown choreographer Donald Byrd to work with a group of 11 international group of Black-identifying ballet dancers, to participate in a 2 week residency. The result was From Other Suns. MoBBallet founder Theresa Ruth Howard is in conversation with  Kennedy Center Dance Programming Director, and ally supreme Jane (Rabinovitz) Raleigh on how this historic program came to be.  

Runtime: 58 minutes