Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook It’s said that every theatre is inhabited by at least one ghost, and contrary to legends ...

Dance Theatre of Harlem (Virginia Johnson, Eddie J. Shellman, Lowell Smith, Cassandra Phifer, Lorraine Graves, Zelda Wynn, Judy Tyrus, Augustus Van Heerden, principal dancers) ; Danish Radio Concert ...

Dance Theatre of Harlem founder Arthur Mitchell -- the first African-American principal in a major American dance company -- sets the classic ballet of "Giselle" in Louisiana circa 1841, a time when ...

In 1968, Arthur Mitchell, who has been called “the Jackie Robinson of ballet,” heard the news that Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated. Mitchell, who at the time was in Brazil where he had ...

Lady vampires never go out of style, but calling “Giselle” timeless would be a mistake. Few other ballets have been kept as stylistically pure from start to finish as the Romantic gem created for ...