Lydia Abarca and Karen Valby with Phoebe Roberts
Karen Valby, a writer living in Austin, Texas, befriended Lydia Abarca—and five of her fellow DTH members (and friends), Gayle McKinney-Griffith, Sheila Rohan, Karlya Shelton-Benjamin, and Marcia Sells—and listened as they recounted their incredible time spent at DTH and beyond. The result is The Swans of Harlem, a group biography that tells the story of these pioneering Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood.
Source: brooklynrail.org