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Arthur Mitchell: Harlem's Ballet Trailblazer
[1] Delores Browne, interview with the author, October 27, 1999, January 12, 2000, August 25, 2000, and January 10, 2001. Most of the research for this essay comes from Joselli Audain Deans, “Black Ballerinas Dancing on the Edge: An Analysis of the Cultural Politics in Delores Browne’s and Raven Wilkinson’s Careers, 1954-1985,” Ed.
D. Diss., Temple University, 2001. Additional material is from Melanye White-Dixon’s book Marion D. Cuyjet and Her Judimar School of Dance: Training Ballerinas in Black Philadelphia 1948-1971 (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press), 2011.
[2] Browne added the “e” to her last name when she began dancing professionally and subsequently kept it.
[3] For additional material about Cuyjet, see White-Dixon, Marion D.
Cuyjet.
[4] Samuel James Brown, Jr., telephone interview with the author, January 8, 2001.
[5] Dunham Technique was created by Katherine Dunham (1912-2006), dancer, choreographer, teacher, and anthropologist. From 1945-54 she directed a dance school in New York City that taught not only her own technique, but also ballet, rhythm tap, folk dance, and other arts-related subjects.
De Mille went on to create Black Ritualor Obeah, the only ballet that the Negro Unit of Ballet Theatre would perform. 3, Fall 2014, pp. She performed in the original Broadway casts of Lew Leslie’s Blackbirds of 1939, Swingin’ the Dream (1939), ‘Op-O’-Me Thumb (1924), and The Will O’ the Wisp (1923).
She was a part of the original casts of Agnes de Mille’s Black Ritual and the Broadway shows Carmen Jones (1943) and Cabin in the Sky (1940), the latter of which was staged and choreographed by George Balanchine. 3, Fall 2014, pp.
Black was also a member of Negro Unit of Ballet Theatre, performing in the 1940 premiere of Agnes de Mille’s Black Ritual. Cox was also a member of the original Broadway cast of Flying Colors. 97, no. Additionally, she wrote an article for The Proceedings of the First National Dance Congress and Festival called “On a Few Aspects of Negro Dancing.”
Sources:
Black Ritual (Obeah), American Ballet Theatre
Leonore Cox, Playbill
Maher, Erin K.
“Ballet, Race, and Agnes de Mille’s Black Ritual.” The Musical Quarterly, vol. In the 1930s, Hart taught dance at the Grace Giles Dancing School. Hurd was also featured in Carmen Jones on Broadway.
Sources:
Black Ritual (Obeah), American Ballet Theatre
Edith Hurd, Playbill
The Complete Books of 1930s Broadway Musicals by Dan Dietz
Mabel Anderson (née Hart)
Born in 1916, Mabel Anderson (née Hart) was a member of the Negro Unit of Ballet Theatre.
Williams toured Europe and appeared in Broadway shows like Showboat, Finian’s Rainbow, and My Darling. 390-428.
Valerie Black
Valerie Cavell Black, born in 1917 in Colon, Panama, attended Bryant High School and Hunter College in New York City. She then founded the Mabel Hart Dance School in the 1950s.
Sources:
Black Ritual (Obeah), American Ballet Theatre
Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War by Carol J.
Oja
Mabel Hart, Playbill
Pioneers in Negro Concert Dance: 1931 to 1937, Free to Dance
Maher, Erin K. “Ballet, Race, and Agnes de Mille’s Black Ritual.” The Musical Quarterly, vol. De Mille transports the story to the ante-bellum South, placing emphasis on a relationship between a white suitor and a Black maid rather than a king and a lady-in-waiting.
390-428.
Maudelle Bass Weston, Oxford African American Studies Center
Clementine Collinwood
Clementine Collinwood (also known as Clemie Collinwood) was a member of the Negro Unit of Ballet Theatre. She would carry his spirit and legacy on in her body, while building her own as Artistic Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for 21 years.
Kennard performed in Swingin’ the Dream (1939); with Katherine Dunham’s company in Cabin in the Sky, which was filmed in 1943 and starred Lena Horne; in Dunham’s 1943 (or 1944) Tropical Revue; in the 1945 Broadway musical Carib Song; as a lead dancer in the 1946 Bal Negre; and Show Boat in Chicago (1948).
She appeared in the film Beware! in 1946 and Aida with the National Negro Opera Company in 1941 as well as work on radio and in clubs.
Sources:
Pioneers in Negro Concert Dance: 1931 to 1937, Free to Dance
Valerie Black, Playbill
Maher, Erin K.
“Ballet, Race, and Agnes de Mille’s Black Ritual.” The Musical Quarterly, vol. 390-428.
Carole Ash
Carole Ash was a member of the Negro Unit of Ballet Theatre. Cook performed in the original Broadway casts of Flying Colors (1932), Lew Leslie’s Blackbirds of 1939, Swingin’ the Dream (1939), and Big White Fog (1940).
She was a principal dancer with both John Butler’s company and with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, following in the footsteps of cousin Janet Collins.
Sources:
Women in Dance: Carmen de Lavallade, Jacob’s Pillow
Carmen de Lavallade, Wikipedia
Carmen de Lavallade, The Kennedy Center
Biography: Carmen de Lavallade, Thirteen
Cleo Quitman
In 1954, Quitman came to New York when she was 17 with intentions to enroll at the School of American Ballet.
Jones’ teachers included Alexandre Gavrilov (Ballets Russes), Ted Shawn, and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson.