The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Carolyn Adams

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Carolyn Adams

6/26/2018; 6/28/2018

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2018.107

Dancer Carolyn Adams (1943- ) toured with the Paul Taylor Dance Company from 1965 to 1982 as its first African American dancer. She also founded several organizations including the American Dance Legacy Initiative and the Harlem Dance Studio and Foundation. Adams was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 6/26/2018 and 6/28/2018, in New York, New York. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 2; Total Tapes: 9; Total Run Time: 03h 35m 37s

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Dancer Carolyn Adams was born on August 16, 1943 in New York City to writer and composer Olive Arnold Adams and newspaper editor Julius J. Adams. She attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School and studied dance at the Martha Graham School in New York City. Adams received her B.A. degree in 1965 from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, where she spent her junior year studying abroad at the Sorbonne in Paris, France. Later, she earn her M.S.W. degree from Fordham University in 2006....