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Cornelius Carter Shares Dance as an Act of Community Service

Every dance artist begins their journey as a product of the community in which they began. While attending an all-Black school in the South, Cornelius Carter was asked by his high school dance teacher to choreograph for the school’s dance company. She noticed he had a natural talent for movement and saw the possibility of […]

IABD's New Project Is Preserving Black Dance History

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 […]