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Popular Dances of the 1920s
Lindy Hop, Charleston, Foxtrot, etc.
Savoy Ballroom in Harlem, New York -
Martha Graham leaves Denishawn
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Martha Graham Dance Company
Founded by Martha Graham -
Loie Fuller passes away from pneumonia
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Asadata Dafore
Moved to New York City to pursue his music career -
Anna Sokolow
Performs with the Martha Graham Company -
Lester Horton
Lester Horton formed his company to teach his technique -
Awassa Astrige/ Ostrich by Asadata Dafore
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Josephine Baker in Princesse Tam Tam
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Katherine Dunham
Collaborates with George Balanchine for Broadway production of Cabin in the Sky -
Agnes de Mille presents Rodeo
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Doris Humphrey
Retired from dancing and becomes the artistic director of the José Limón Dance Company. Continues to develop her technique within the company. -
Pearl Primus
Presented Strange Fruit and Hard Time Blues -
Talley Beatty
Beatty shared the leading role in Showboat with Pearl Primus and made appeared as the lead in Spring in Brazil choreographed by Esther Junger. -
Donald McKayle
Made his professional dance debut at the Mansfield Theatre, in dances by Sophie Maslow and Jean Erdman. -
Geoffrey Holder
Made his Broadway debut in House of Flowers -
Arthur Mitchell becomes the first African American dancers to join New York City Ballet
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Eleo Pomare Company formed and toured Europe
Eleo Pomare studied under Kurt Jooss and Harold Kreutzberg in Europe -
Donald McKayle created Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder
A dance of protest inspired by the rhythms of the Southern Negro chain gangs. -
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater presents Revelations
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Carmen de Lavallade, Dance Magazine Award
" Beauteous symbol of today's total dancer, she conveys the sensuous pleasure of movement with simplicity, elegance and superb control." -
Chuck Davis Dance Company in New York City
Chuck Davis was a former dancer for Eleo Pomare Dance Company -
Dance Theater of Harlem
Founded by Arthur Mitchell -
PHILIDANCO!
Founded by Joans Myers Brown -
Sandra Fortune-Green
Performed in the Second International Ballet Competition in Moscow, Russia. She placed 26th out of 126 participants and was the only African American to compete. -
Duke Ellington School Of the Arts
Established by Peggy Cooper Cafritz and Mike Malone.
Only DC public school focused on performing arts. -
Geoffrey Holder Directs the Broadway version of The Wiz: The Super Soul Musical "Wonderful Wizard of Oz"
Geoffrey Holder, a native of Trinidad, was a dancer Choreographer, photographer, singer, painter, actor, writer, and costume designer. -
Ronald K. Brown and EVIDENCE
EVIDENCE, A Dance Company was founded -
Judith Jamison becomes Artistic Director for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
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IABD
International Association of Blacks in Dance was organized by Joan Myers Brown -
Birth of Sydney B Wiggins
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Sydney starts dancing at the age of three
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Sydney Studies at The Washington School of Ballet
Studied Ballet, Pointe, Modern, Jazz and African dance techniques.
Katrina Toews, Maggie Williamson, Robin Tasha Ford, Monica Johnson, Jerome Johnson, Ralph Glenmore, Sylvia Soma, Shawn Short, Paula Brown -
Katherine Dunham passed away
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Sydney starts high school at Duke Ellington School of the Arts
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Sydney attends show at the Kennedy Center for the first time
She sees a performance by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater -
Sydney attends IABD for the first time in Washington DC
The International Association of Blacks in Dance -
Misty Copeland Becomes Principle Dancer
Copeland becomes the first African American Principle dancer at American Ballet Theater -
Sydney graduates from Duke Ellington School of the Arts
Studies Ballet, Modern and African dance with Charles Auggins (chair), Katherine Smith, Nikki Sutton-Mackey, Treanna Reid-Alexander, Sandra Fortune-Green, Melvin Deal, Christopher Huggins -
Sydney attends Virginia Commonwealth University
MK Abadoo, Martha Curtis, Christy Funsch, Courtney Harris, Robbie Kinter, Lea Marshall, Scott Putman, Jenna Riegel, Melanie Richards, Eric Rivera, Dr. E. Gaynell Sherrod, Judith Steel, Autumn Proctor Waddell -
Sydney attends a Ronald K. Brown/ EVIDENCE performance at the Kennedy Center
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Alicia Graf Mack becomes the director of Juilliard's dance program