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The footage offers just a glimpse into Mitchell’s long and illustrious career spent breaking barriers for black ballet dancers. The esteemed performer died this week at the age of 84; according ...
Sep 19, 2018 · By Jennifer Dunning. Sept. 19, 2018. Arthur Mitchell, a charismatic dancer with New York City Ballet in the 1950s and ’60s and the founding director of the groundbreaking Dance Theater of...
- About This Orbit: Arthur Mitchell
- Lincoln Kirstein
- George Balanchine
- Jerome Robbins
- Tanaquil Le Clercq
- Katherine Dunham
A native New Yorker, Arthur Mitchell attended the High School for the Performing Arts in New York City and began performing in Broadway musicals and with the companies of Donald McKayle and John Butler. In 1956 Mitchell became the only Black dancer in the New York City Ballet. He soon became a principal with the company, and George Balanchine creat...
Arthur Mitchell attended the High School of Performing Arts in New York City, studying dance styles such as jazz, tap, and modern. Lincoln Kirstein, the co-founder of New York City Ballet along with George Balanchine, watched Mitchell’s high school graduation performance. Impressed by what he saw, Kirstein gave the School of American Ballet, New Yo...
Mitchell was a favorite of George Balanchine, who co-founded and directed the company. Allegra Kent, in a New York Times article, says that when Balanchine invited Mitchell to join NYCB, “he saw not an African-American dancer, but a dancer who could thrill an audience.” Mitchell had a unique aesthetic that Balanchine was searching for, and he serve...
While a member of New York City Ballet, Arthur Mitchell performed his fair share of pieces by Jerome Robbins, choreographer and once Associate Artistic Director of the company. In addition to originating an ensemble role in The Concert (1956), Mitchell danced the principal role in Pied Piper (1955), as the Trumpet in Fanfare (1955), in Interplay (1...
Tanaquil Le Clercq was a student at the School of American Ballet and performed in the Ballet Society, the first iteration of Balanchine’s New York City Ballet. During this time she befriended Betty Nichols and after traveling Europe and performing in Paris with Nichols, Le Clercq returned to America and danced with New York City Ballet alongside A...
Between seasons at New York City Ballet, Arthur Mitchell taught ballet at several schools, including the Katherine Dunham School. Katherine Dunham was a ballet dancer, choreographer, and founder of the Dunham technique. In 1931, at the age of 21, Dunham and Mark Turbyfill formed a group called Ballet Nègre,one of the first Black ballet companies in...
Former New York City Ballet principal dancer and Dance Theatre of Harlem founder Arthur Mitchell passed away yesterday in a Manhattan hospital. He was 84 years old. A groundbreaking...
Sep 19, 2018 · Arthur Mitchell, shown here in 2004, danced with the New York City Ballet from 1956 to 1968. JIM WATSON / AFP/Getty Images Mitchell was honored at the White House by President George W. Bush in 2006.
- Kate Feldman
Sep 19, 2018 · NEW YORK (AP) — Arthur Mitchell, who broke barriers for African-Americans in the 1950s as a ballet dancer with the New York City Ballet and who would go on to become a driving force in the creation of the Dance Theatre of Harlem, has died. He was 84.
Sep 21, 2018 · By Adam Hetrick. September 21, 2018. Arthur Mitchell Martha Swope/©NYPL for the Performing Arts. Arthur Mitchell, who blazed a trail as New York City Ballet’s first African-American...
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