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Conwill first met Mitchell after moving to New York in 1980 to work as the deputy director of the Studio Museum in Harlem. They were part of a group of cultural organizers who advocated for the ...
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...
Sep 19, 2018 · The school shut down performances in 2004 amid massive debt, but reopened in 2012. “It’s with the deepest sadness we share the news that our founding artistic director, the great, Arthur...
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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...
Sep 24, 2018 · By Wendy Perron, The Guardian —. A star of New York City Ballet and the co-founder of Dance Theatre of Harlem, Arthur Mitchell was also the first African American principal dancer in any major ballet company. Mitchell, who has died aged 84, had classical lines, buoyant energy and a palpable joy in movement. In NYCB, where he danced from 1955 ...
Jan 5, 2018 · He paused for a moment and sat up a bit straighter in his chair at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, where he is the subject of an exhibition opening Jan. 13. “I am the grandfather of ...
Mar 27, 2024 · Arthur Mitchell, American dancer, choreographer, and director who was the first African American to become a principal dancer with a major ballet troupe, New York City Ballet. Some of his best-known roles included those in Agon (1957) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1962). He later cofounded Dance Theatre of Harlem.
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