Arthur mitchell and george balanchine biography
Arthur mitchell and george balanchine biography
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About This Orbit: Arthur Mitchell
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 created several roles for him, notably those in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1962) and Agon (1957).
He was asked to assemble a group of leading Black dancers, called the American Negro Dance Company, to perform in Senegal in 1966.
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The performance was to take place at the World Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar during the month of April. Though they declined to fund the company, it was initially sponsored by the US Department of State. Members included well-known dancers Carmen de Lavallade, John Jones, Paula Kelly, Bill Luther, William Louther, Llanchie Stevenson, Claude Thompson, Dudley Williams, and Sara