Karen Warrington used to be a lead dancer and choreographer with the Arthur Hall Afro-American Dance Ensemble, right from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arthur Mitchell (right) introduces dancers from the Dance Theatre of Harlem at the White House, 2006 - Jim Watson/AFP When, in ...

Lloyd Freeman, a board member of the Philadelphia Ballet, started the "Daddy and Me" initiative to encourage more men — particularly Black men — to bring their children to the ballet. He brought his ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — After 15 years of performing ballet, NaTori Blackman-Gray finally got her chance recently to dance as the Snow Queen — a leading role in "The Nutcracker." For the Black ballerina, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Misty Copeland talked in a recent interview about the challenges of being a Black woman in the dance word. Above, she is shown at ...

Next week, the Kennedy Center will host “Pathways to Performance: Exercises in Reframing the Narrative” on Tuesday, July 2, and Wednesday, July 3. “The title points out that sometimes people who are ...

Dallas Black Dance Theatre is closing its 49th season with new and returning works choreographed primarily by members of the ...

Dancer Jonathan Batista made history this fall as the first Black principal dancer in Pacific Northwest Ballet’s 50-year history. Batista was promoted to principal in September. He says this new title ...

BLACK DANCE is more than Alvin Ailey, and Gesel Mason wants the world to know that. But before she can tell the world, this dancer and choreographer has to let her own adopted home town, Washington, ...

On a December evening, audiences looked on, amused, as the senior class of Juilliard students clamored over one another to grab a microphone onstage. The dancers stumbled around, some manic, others ...