As an engineering student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yamilée Toussaint was sometimes the only Black woman in her class. After she graduated, she decided to change that, and, in 2012, combined her dual passions for science and dancing to create STEM From Dance—an institution based in Brooklyn, New York, with programs across the country. […]
The International Association of Blacks in Dance is digitizing recordings of significant, at-risk dance works, master classes, panels and more by Black dancers and choreographers from 1988 to 2010. The project is the result of a $50,000 Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources. “This really is a long time […]
I recently spent a Saturday night with my husband and my 17-year-old dancing daughter, who sobbed at the foot of our bed. My daughter revealed her experiences with implicit bias and overt racism in school, and especially in the dance studio. For six years, she has danced at a classical ballet school tied to the […]
It was freshman year, spring semester, and I was a part of a graduate student’s thesis work. Some of the faculty members were coming to watch the progress that we had made so far, and Marcus showed up. At the time I didn’t know who anyone was, but I could tell he was articulate, evaluative […]