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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Five programs run by the city of Dallas' Office of Arts and Culture will receive about $248,000 in funding, which is being redistributed from Dallas Black Dance Theatre. In December of last year, the ...

Few things in human history are as quietly defiant as a body in motion. Long before marchers carried signs or activists ...

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 ...