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Organizations like Brown Girls Do Ballet and Alvin Ailey are leveling the dance floor for Black performers who have historically been excluded from the art form.

It just got easier to explore some of North Texas’ best dance and music through the Dallas Black Dance Theatre and Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

The interest of the USC graduates and students in this historic work and the era in which it was performed is welcome and heartening. It indicates a concern with more substantial and even oppositional artistry.

FOR TIONA NEKKIA MCCLODDEN’S latest work, The Trace of an Implied Presence, currently on view at the Shed in New York, the artist has installed four dancefloors in the second-floor gallery, each tailored to different specifications. Two are covered in Marley (one black and one white). Two are made of hard wood. Suspended above each dancefloor is a screen, onto which are projected color and black-and-white filmed portraits of Black performers. Here McClodden presents Michael J. Love, a tap dan...

́As a radiant Tessanne Chin held that final note of Bridge Over Troubled Water accompanied by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Jamaica, scenes of the past two years of the novel coronavirus p...

Dallas Black Dance Theatre dancers and North Macedonian musicians join forces in a live music and dance world premiere woven from the tapestry of this cultural collage. Jazz guitarist Toni Kitanovski & Cherkezi Orchestra will let their music flow into a musical score as DBDT veteran dancer/choreographer Claude Alexander III transforms the music into passionate movements for DBDT dancers.

Dallas Black Dance Theatre dancers and North Macedonian musicians will join forces in a live music and dance world premiere woven from the tapestry of this cultural collage.