Black dance collection, 1939-1990.

Fort, Syvilla, 1917-1975

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Syvilla Fort (July 3, 1917 – November 8, 1975) was an American dancer, choreographer, and dance teacher, who drew on a variety of dance techniques, as well as her African American heritage, in the creation of her original dance works and through her influential teaching practice. Born in Seattle, Washington, Syvilla Fort was the daughter of John Wesley Lorenzo Fort, a postal worker, and Mildred Oldwin Fort. She grew up in the Wallingford/Green Lake section of Seattle (sometimes known as Tanglet...

Dafora, Asadata, 1890-1965

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Dancer, choreographer, dance-dramatist. Born John Warner Dafora Horton in Sierra Leone, Dafora was the first dancer to bring African dance forms to American audiences. From the description of Asadata Dafora papers, 1933-1963. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122570954 Cultural organization. From the guide to the African Academy of Arts and Research records, 1944, (The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and...

Nash, Joe.

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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 ...

Bledger, Al

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Winfield, Hemsley, 1907?-1934.

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Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts (Roxbury, Mass.)

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