Pride in the Company's visionary founder, Alvin Ailey, and in the African American experience is also reflected in the ongoing exhibition Edges of Ailey at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the ...

Last week I was permitted a moment of naches. My friend and classmate Rennie McDougall published his first book, Nonstop ...

A new dance workshop in Milwaukee connected Black dancers to their history. The INSPIRE Community Dance workshop happened inside the Milwaukee Performing Arts Center in January. The workshop was ...

Dallas Black Dance Theatre is a historic institution that's been a space for Black dancers in Dallas since 1976. Recently, the company has been the subject of controversy amid labor disputes. In 2024, ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Long before Hollywood mythologized the American West, Black cowboys and cowgirls were shaping it—roping, riding and building the frontier with skill, grit and artistry. Their ...

Ten dancers who were fired by the Dallas Black Dance Theatre in August will receive more than $500,000 in compensation and a personal apology from the dance company's leadership, the union ...

Alabama State University dancers perform at a previous year's International Association of Blacks in Dance conference. This is WESA Arts, a weekly newsletter by Bill O'Driscoll providing in-depth ...

Dallas Black Dance Theatre has launched an advisory stakeholder task force. The task force hosted its first meeting on March 25 and will convene monthly to eventually put forth recommendations about ...

Dallas Black Dance Theatre's 48th season will continue under the leadership of Interim Artistic Director Richard A. Freeman, Jr., whose deep roots in American dance and relationship with DBDT that ...

Arthur Mitchell (1934-2018) joined the New York City Ballet as its first African American star in 1955, when people commonly believed that Black dancers couldn't perform ballet. I encountered Mitchell ...