by Grace Elliott | Jul 5, 2023 | News, Pointe+, The Latest, Training
April 30 to May 6, students and educators representing 37 pre-professional training institutions from across the world gathered in Toronto, Canada, to unpack racial inequities within ballet education and the ballet industry as a whole. Hosted by Canada’s National...
by Maggie Small | Jun 14, 2022 | Onstage, The Latest
This week, the Kennedy Center presents Reframing the Narrative, a huge event centered on the abundance of Blacks in ballet and their contributions to the art both on and off the stage. Over the last year and a half, Theresa Ruth Howard, founder of Memoirs of Blacks in...
by Zoe Phillips | Feb 8, 2021 | Instagram, News, The Latest, Training
Last week, Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet celebrated the start of Black History Month with the launch of The Constellation Project, a star-studded online exhibition of dance history. The project maps the lives of six influential Black dancers—Arthur Mitchell, Mel...
by Shaté L. Hayes | Aug 24, 2020 | Career, Instagram, News, Training
Black squares on your organization’s social media profile. Posting videos and images of the Black dancers within your company or school. Buttoned up, PR-approved statements that fall in line with what everyone else is saying and doing. Many Black dancers have...
by Kyra Laubacher | Aug 5, 2020 | News, The Latest
Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet , founded in 2015 by writer and activist Theresa Ruth Howard to preserve and promote the stories of Black ballet dancers, is offering three weekends of interactive education and conversation this month through its 2020 Virtual Symposium....