{"id":17330,"date":"2023-02-03T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=17330"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:20","slug":"from-ballet-to-broadway-and-black-four-saints-in-three-acts-1952-mabel-hart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2023\/02\/03\/from-ballet-to-broadway-and-black-four-saints-in-three-acts-1952-mabel-hart\/","title":{"rendered":"From Ballet to Broadway and Black & Four Saints in Three Acts (1952): Mabel Hart"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Ballet to Broadway and Black and Mabel Hart<\/h2>\n
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Inside the Lost in the Stars (1949) Playbill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Visit Mabel Hart’s Orbit in From Ballet To Broadway And Black<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mabel Hart was a Black ballet dancer that built quite a reputation for herself – <\/span>as a ballet dancer, teacher, and Broadway performer. She was a member of the Negro Unit of the Ballet Theatre<\/a>. She participated in a number of dances with the company; one of her most notable performances was Black Ritual<\/em> along with Edith Hurd<\/a>, Lavinia Williams<\/a> and Muriel Cook<\/a>. Hart also took on the role of teacher, teaching at a number of schools. One of the schools she taught at was her own, <\/span>Mabel Hart Dance School, which did very well. She also has a lot of famous students, including ballet dancer, Denise Perry. <\/span><\/p>\n

Mabel Hart was a classically\u00a0 trained ballet dancer who also performed in a number of shows on Broadway. The most notable of these shows is Four Saints in Three Acts <\/em>(1952). She performed in the Broadway show Carmen Jones <\/em>(1943-45) with Hurd. Hart also performed in Run, Little Chillun <\/em>(1943) and Lost in the Stars <\/em>(1949). In most of the performances she participated in, she was casted as a dancer, but in\u00a0Lost in the Stars\u00a0<\/em>(1949), she played a character.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sources<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Mabel Hart (Performer), Playbill<\/a>
\nMabel Hart: Credits, Bio, News & More, Broadway World<\/a>
\n<\/span>A Peek Inside Her Agenda: E. Denise Perry, HER AGENDA <\/a>
\n<\/span>Mabel Hart, MoBBallet<\/a>
\nLost in the Stars (Broadway, Music Box Theatre, 1949), Playbill<\/a><\/p>\n

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More about Mabel Hart<\/h2>\n
Born in 1916, Mabel Anderson (n\u00e9e Hart) was a member of the\u00a0Negro Unit of Ballet Theatre<\/a>. She was a part of the original cast of Agnes de Mille\u2019s\u00a0Black Ritual<\/em>. Her Broadway credits include roles in\u00a0Run, Little Chillun<\/em>\u00a0(1943);\u00a0Carmen Jones<\/em>\u00a0(1943-1945); and\u00a0Lost in the Stars<\/em> (as the Young Woman, 1949*). In 1934, she was one of the six dancers featured in\u00a0Four Saints in Three Acts<\/em>, composed by\u00a0Virgil Thomson<\/a>\u00a0and choreographed by\u00a0Frederick Ashton<\/a>, with a libretto by\u00a0Gertrude Stein<\/a>.<\/div>\n

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See more.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sources<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Mabel Hart, MoBBallet<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sana Jawa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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