Karlya Shelton, front and center, with the swans, performing George ... became a founding member of the Dance Theater of Harlem, a pioneering Black ballet company conceived in 1969 by the Harlem ...

At the start of each year, I try to visualize what occurrences around the world could reasonably happen which would meet the ...

She joined EW in 2000. She is the author of the books Welcome to Utopia: Notes From a Small Town (2010) and The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their ...