It has been the better part of a decade since the nation’s premier African-American dance company pirouetted its way onto the local stage, so you’re duly warned not to miss this performance. DTH leader Arthur Mitchell is a living legend of the dance world, having broken through the color barrier some fifty years ago to become a star protégé of the great George Balanchine. He and his company have shared three decades of unparalleled success, renowned not just for groundbreaking choregraphy but for such historic milestones as being the first American dance company to tour both apartheid-era South Africa and Soviet-era Russia. These two days of performance will be a greatest hits of sorts, selected by Mitchell from among DTH’s catalog of ten dozen works.
Dance Theatre of Harlem
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