Nash, Joe.

Joe Nash is a former dancer, black dance historian and more recently coordinator of black dance history courses at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater School in New York, and director and founder of the Multiethnic Christian Education Resources Center of the National Council of Churches

Born in New York City, Nash came from a musical family and trained to become a secretary. He began dancing in 1940 with the National Youth Administration, then spent four years in the Army in Europe. Following World War II, he enrolled in the dance division of the American Theatre Wing. He studied ballet and modern dance, making his first professional appearance with the Charles Weidman Dance Group.

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