DTH at 30.

From: The Nation | Date: January 3, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

In 1969, a year after the death of Martin Luther King Jr., Arthur Mitchell, the country's leading African-American dancer, founded the Dance Theatre of Harlem. A Harlem native and graduate of New York's High School of Performing Arts, Mitchell was a principal dancer with the New York City

Ballet, which he had joined in 1955, quickly becoming one of the most interesting of the company's neoclassical princes. His goal in forming DTH was both to prove that black dancers "could do ballet" and to provide them with an outlet to perform.

DTH was not the first all-black ballet ...

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