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The first all black musical on Broadway called Shuffle Along
This was a great idea. This musical made everyone become interested in black dance. -
Dunham made her way to Broadway
Katherine Dunham choreographed the Broadway musicals Le Jazz Hot and Tropics. -
Pearl Primus
One of the first black modern dancers. She was also one of the first dancers to make an in-depth study of black dance traditions, embracing West Indian, African, and primitive dance. -
Dunham founded a school of dance
Her students learned philosophy, anthropology, and languages as well as tap, ballet, and percussion. -
Pearl Primus returned home
She brought back knowledge and experience of the native dances and rituals in Africa -
Dance Theatre of Harlem was founded
Arthur Mitchell founded this dance school shortly after Martin Luther King's assassination. The school was a huge success and gave its first performance in 1971. -
Tap dance
Chuck Green, James Buster Brown, Jimmy Slyde come put of retirement to perform at a Times Square hotel -
Philadanco
Joan Myers Brown founded Philadanco, a repertory company in Philadelphia devoted to the works of black choreographers. -
Muntu Dance Theatre is founded
It was founded in Chicago to bring together African American and African immigrant dancers. -
The first National Congress on Blacks in Dance
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Michael Jackson released Beat It! and Thriller
Alvin Ailey and Talley Beatty choreographed the music videos. -
Urban Bush Women was founded
Jawole Zollar, a student of Dianne McIntyre, founded her own company. Three years later she joins other artists to go on a short European tour. -
Bill T. Jones premieres Last Night at Uncle Tom's Cabin/ The Promised Land
It was a full-evening work that deconstructs Harriet Stowe's novel and ends with a scene of nude dancing for the company members and volunteers. -
Batty Moves premiers
Urban Bush Women premiers this work. it juxtaposes the vocabularies of African dance and modern dance. -
A QUEEN WAS BORN!!!
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Rennie Harris tours
He is a break dancer and toured his work "Rome and Jewels" which is his interpretation of Shakespeare and "West Side Story". -
Mom puts me in ballet
She noticed I was a very weird child, so she put me in dance classes at Pine Camp Recreation Center. -
"Black Burlesque" tours
Reggie Wilson collaborates with a dance company in Trinidad and a music group in Zimbabwe to tour this work. It was a mix of Africanist and postmodernist elements. -
"Dancing the African Diaspora: Theories of Black Performance" started
A group of black scholars led by Thomas DeFrantz organizes their first conference at Duke University -
I graduated CFA
I went to a high school that had a Center For the Arts department and I was a "dance major". We had many performances, guest artists, workshops, and many more. This is when my dancing was at its "prime". -
I graduate !
I graduate from VCU with a bachelors in Dance and choreography! Then whatever the future has for me, shall happen!
