WASHINGTON — Arthur Mitchell, who paved the way for other minority dancers by becoming one of the first black dancers to join a major ballet company and who helped start the acclaimed Dance ...

“When Dance Theatre of Harlem started, there was still a fallacy that black people could not do classical ballet,” Mitchell told the Toronto Star in 1995. “People said to me, ‘Arthur, you ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Dance Review By Alastair Macaulay BOSTON Since the poet and critic Anne Carson and the dancer-choreographer Rashaun Mitchell are each ...

LaVern Porter-Mitchell, a pioneer in the dance community in Gainesville, especially the Black community, has died at the age of 72. Known as a performer with grace and poise who gave it her all on ...