Ninotchka bennahum biography of william hill
Ninotchka bennahum biography of william hill
Manifesto of the Unsung - Swarthmore College Bulletin.
‘Race, Ballet, and American Dance’
Building on the momentum created by the highly successful exhibition, conference, and performance Radical Bodies in 2017, the Dance and Performance Studies program at UCSB will stage a full day of talks, films, and performances devoted to the role of race in the history of classical ballet in America on Monday, April 29, in the HSSB Ballet Studio.
Dance studies professor Ninotchka Bennahum and associate professor of English and black studies Stephanie Batiste have co-curated an event that has attracted some of the most revered figures in American ballet.
Heather Watts, former principal dancer for the New York City Ballet (NYCB), will stage two important works from the 1950s, George Balanchine’s Agon (1957) and Jerome Robbins’s Afternoon of a Faun (1953), both featuring Calvin Royal III, principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre, and Unity Phelan, soloist with the New York City Ballet.
Cameron Grant, the pianist for the NYCB, will be o