WILMINGTON, Delaware (WPVI) -- "This really is my home," said Benjamin Sterling Cannon. "The teachers who were here, they were all like my parents. And they gave me so much that I had to come back and ...

Arthur Mitchell (right) introduces dancers from the Dance Theatre of Harlem at the White House, 2006 - Jim Watson/AFP When, in 2015, Misty Copeland became the first black principal ballerina at the ...

African American dance: a complex history / Thomas F. DeFrantz -- Christian conversion and the challenge of dance / P. Sterling Stuckey -- Dance and identity politics in American Negro vaudeville: The ...

*Have you ever seen a performance of “The Nutcracker Ballet?” If not, if you live in, or will be in Southern California, here is your opportunity and if you have, here is an opportunity to see it ...

Early on in her childhood, Anne Benna Sims, the first African-American ballerina to sign a contract with the American Ballet Theatre (ABT), wanted to take lessons in dance, but she had to wait a few ...

An Oakland woman has brought the joy of dance and an appreciation for African American culture to performers and audiences for 52 years. Artistic director Deborah Vaughan crafts diverse performances ...

In his bio, choreographer Alonzo King is said to create works “by the manipulation of energies that exist in matter through laws, which govern the shapes and movement directions of everything that ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- At King Elementary School in southwest Fresno, students have been learning about African American culture through dance. This year, 18 students at Martin Luther King ...

“What would I have been had I never gone to the Katherine Dunham School of Dance when I was a young dancer in New York?” asked Dr. Glory Van Scott. She spoke at the Missouri History Museum recently to ...

The American Dance Festival has announced its 2025 season with a full summer performance schedule from June 12 to July 26 and additional performances in September. With 40 performances by 22 acclaimed ...

Performances in N.Y.C. SPRING PREVIEW Robert Garland, Dance Theater’s new artistic director and longtime resident choreographer, presides over his first season at New York City Center. Robert Garland, ...