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n 1969, at the height of the civil rights movement, Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook founded Dance Theatre of Harlem. Their vision remains one of the most democratic in dance.

In moments of extreme injustice and frustration the most impactful art is born. This is true of the inception of one of the most influential American ballet companies of the last five decades, Dance Theatre of Harlem.

Arthur Mitchell created the company in New York City, after making history in 1955 as the first black principal dancer at New York City Ballet. At the height of the civil rights movement, in a graceful moment of artistic resistance, he created a haven for dancers of all colors who craved training, performance experience and an opportunity to excel in the classical ballet world.

Now a singular presence in the ballet world, the Dance Theatre of Harlem Company tours nationally and internationally, presenting a powerful vision for ballet in the 21st century.

Through performances, community engagement and arts education, the Company carries forward Dance Theatre of Harlem’s message of empowerment through the arts for all.

We thank you for your support through sponsorships, memberships and attendance which make all of what we do possible. On July 25 we will kick off our 25th Anniversary Celebration. We hope to see you there!

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FOUNDERS Arthur Mitchell & Karel Shook

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DANCE ARTISTS Lindsey Donnell Yinet Fernandez Alexandra Hutchinson Daphne Lee Kamala Saara Crystal Serrano Ingrid Silva Amanda Smith Delaney Washington Stephanie Rae Williams Derek Brockington Micah Bullard Kouadio Davis Keenan English Christopher McDaniel Sanford Placide Anthony Santos

Dylan Santos David Wright OVER FIFTY YEARS OF DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM The fifty-three-year history of Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH) is a landscape of peaks and valleys inhabited by a race of dreamers, achievers, and yes, history makers. DTH cofounder Arthur Mitchell was all the above as well as premier danseur, choreographer and teacher. We used to call him “our fearless leader” because he marched forward never thinking that what he sought to do would have been impossible for anyone else. His passing in 2018 left us bereft but determined that the institution he and Karel Shook incorporated on February 11, 1969, will endure and thrive.

Arthur Mitchell believed in the power of art to change lives and open minds. The DTH Company, School, and our arts education program, “Dancing Through Barriers” (DTB), became the manifestation of that idea. While the School and DTB served the Harlem community, with the Company, Arthur Mitchell was able to take his vision across the globe. The DTH Company, a mix of African Americans, Hispanics, Asians and Caucasians, was a vivid demonstration of the premise that the art form of classical ballet belongs to us all.

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INTERMISSION CHANGE (World Premiere February 2, 2016) Choreography: Dianne McIntyre Traditional music: Spelman College Glee Club Directed by Dr. Kevin Johnson and B. E. Boykin Original music: Eli Fountain Costume Design: Oran Bumroongchart Lighting Design: Alex Fabozzi DELANEY WASHINGTON • INGRID SILVA • DAPHNE LEE This work is inspired by women—Black, Brown and Beige—who have refashioned the neighborhood, the country, the world through their vision, courage, and endurance. Often unsung, inconspicuous, or up-front, these individuals could be called warriors for change.

INTERMISSION RETURN (World Premiere September 21, 1999) Choreography: Robert Garland Music: James Brown, Alfred Ellis, Aretha Franklin, Carolyn Franklin Costume Design and Execution: Pamela AllenCummings Lighting: Roma Flowers “Mother Popcorn” INGRID SILVA Yinet Fernandez • Crystal Serrano • Kamala Saara • Daphne Lee • Delaney Washington DAVID WRIGHT Sanford Placide • Keenan English • Micah Bullard • Kouadio Davis “Baby, Baby, Baby” YINET FERNANDEZ • MICAH BULLARD Delaney Washington • Kouadio Davis • Crystal Serrano • Keenan English “I Got The Feelin’” INGRID SILVA • DAVID WRIGHT KOUADIO DAVIS Delaney Washington • Micah Bullard Daphne Lee

“Call Me” CRYSTAL SERRANO • KEENAN ENGLISH The Company “Superbad” DAVID WRIGHT The Company Return was choreographed for Dance Theatre of Harlem’s 30th anniversary. Choreographer Robert Garland calls the ballet’s style “postmodern urban neoclassicism—an attempt to fuse an urban physical sensibility and a neoclassical one.” Staged for 12 dancers to songs performed by James Brown and Aretha Franklin, Return is “... a witty fusion of ballet technique and street gait whose irony toward rhythm-and-blues had the audience in stitches.” (The New York Times) “Mother Popcorn “ and “Superbad” performed by James Brown “Baby, Baby, Baby” performed by Aretha Franklin.

By arrangement with Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. “Call Me” performed by Aretha Franklin. Courtesy of Pronto Music and Fourteenth Hour Music, Inc. “I Got the Feelin’” performed by James Brown. By arrangement with Round Hill, Inc. Return was commissioned by Arthur Mitchell and Dance Theatre of Harlem.

THE DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM COMPANY DEREK BROCKINGTON Born: Chicago, IL and raised in Holland, Michigan.

Training: Grand Rapids Ballet School, Interlochen Arts Academy, Ballet West and Pennsylvania Ballet Summer Intensives. Professional Experience: Dance Theatre of Harlem (fourth season), Cincinnati Ballet, Grand Rapids Ballet.

Repertoire includes works by Claudia Schreier, Robert Garland, Stanton Welch, George Balanchine, Anabelle Lopez Ochoa, and Darrell Grand Moultrie. Along with DTH’s Alexandra Hutchinson, he coordinates DTH Social Media.

MICAH BULLARD Born: Houston, Texas.

Training: The Dance Center of Baytown, University of Oklahoma School of Dance (BFA 2019), Jacob’s Pillow Contemporary Ballet Program, Dance Theatre of Harlem Summer Intensive, Texas Ballet Theater

Summer Intensive. Professional Experience: Oklahoma City Ballet, Hartel Dance Group, and Dance Theatre of Harlem (first season).

Repertoire includes original works by Amy Hall Garner, Trey McIntyre, Colin Connor, as well as Alejandro Cerrudo’s “Lickety Split,” Merce Cunningham’s “How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run” and Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake.

KOUADIO DAVIS Born: Oneonta, New York.

Training: Holbrook-Wade School of Dance, Fokine Ballet, New York State Summer School of the Arts with Daniel Ulbricht, NYCB. Carolyn Adams. Alvin Ailey, Nutmeg Ballet, Charlotte Ballet, Alonzo King Lines, French Academie of Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Springboard Danse Montreal. 2019 Graduate of Ellison Ballet. Awards: Youth America Grand Prix in 2017 and 2018, where he and his partner won second and then first place in the contemporary Pas de Deux category. Professional Experience: Dance Theatre of Harlem (third season).

LINDSEY DONNELL Born: Midland, Texas.

Training: A Petite Dance Studio, Midland Festival Ballet under Susan Clark. Education: cum laude graduate of Butler University, degree in Dance Arts Administration and Journalism. Professional Experience: Dance Theatre of Harlem (tenth season), Nashville Ballet (trainee). Repertoire includes works by Robert Garland, Nacho Duato, Ulysses Dove, George Balanchine, Donald Byrd, Elena Kunikova and Dianne McIntyre.

KEENAN ENGLISH Born: Randallstown, Maryland.

Training: Baltimore School for the Arts, Boston Ballet, and School of American Ballet.

Professional Experience: Boston Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Carolina Ballet, and Dance Theatre of Harlem (second season). Repertoire includes ballets by Nacho Duato, George Balanchine, William Forsythe, Ulysses Dove, Helen Pickett, Robert Garland, Darrell Grand Moultrie, Val Caniparoli, Alvin Ailey, Septime Webre, Nicolo Fonte, Francesca Harper, Lynn Taylor Corbett.

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YINET FERNANDEZ Born: Mariano’ La Habana, Cuba. Training: Provincial School of the Arts, National School of Ballet, Ballet Nacional de Cuba. Professional experience: Dance Theatre of Harlem (fifth season), Connecticut Ballet, Ballet Nacional de Cuba.

Repertoire includes Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Giselle, Coppélia, La Fille mal gardée, Don Quixote and works by George Balanchine, Robert Garland, Christopher Wheeldon, Darrell Grand Moultrie and Dianne McIntyre.

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ALEXANDRA HUTCHINSON Born: Wilmington, Deleware.

Training: The Washington School of Ballet, Wilmington Academy of Dance, and summer intensives with Alvin Ailey, Alonzo King, Carolina Ballet, Ballet Chicago and Nashville Ballet 2.

Education: Bachelor of Science in Ballet, Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music.

Professional Experience: Dance Theatre of Harlem (fourth season), Nashville Ballet.

Repertoire includes Orange by Stanton Welch; Return and New Bach by Robert Garland; Balamouk by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa; Harlem on My Mind and Vessels by Darrell Grand Moultrie; George Balanchine’s Valse Fantasie, Western Symphony, Swan Lake, Concerto Barocco, Divertimento No. 15, Emeralds, Rubies, and Giselle; Paul Vasterling’s Sleeping Beauty; Septime Webre’s and Michael Vernon’s The Nutcracker. Alexandra is the recipient of The Pierians Foundation Incorporated 2018 Emerging Young Artist Award, Virginia Johnson Scholar, Washington School of Ballet Professional Training Program tuition stipend, 2010, 2011, and 2012. Along with DTH’s Derek Brockington, she shares the position of DTH Social Media coordinator.

Repertoire includes works by Robert Garland,

DAPHNE MARCELLE LEE Rahway, New Jersey. Training: Rahway Dance Theatre by her late mother Jay Skeete-Lee, and the Dance Theatre of Harlem School. Education: BFA in Dance, Ailey/ Fordham University, and MFA from Hollins University. Professional Experience: Dance Theatre of Harlem (third season), Collage Dance Collective, Oakland Ballet, Alvin Ailey II, Black Iris Project. Repertoire includes works

Fonte, Dwight Rhoden, Jennifer Archibald, George Balanchine, Amy Seiwart, Joyce Trisler, and Darrell Moultrie.

CHRISTOPHER CHARLES MCDANIEL Born: East Harlem, New York.

Training: Dance Theatre of Harlem School, LaGuardia School of Performing Arts, Ballet Academy East, Boston Ballet, Jacob’s Pillow. Professional Experience: Dance Theatre of Harlem (fifth season), Ballet San Antonio, Los Angeles Ballet.

Ulysses Dove, Darryl Grand Moultrie, Colleen Neary, Thordal Christensen, George Balanchine, Jiri Kylian, Gerald Arpino, Christopher Stowell and Kitty McNamee.

Christopher is an accomplished ballet teacher and DTH Social Media Manager.

SANFORD PLACIDE Born: Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Training: Ballet Etudes of South Florida, Manhattan Youth Ballet, The French Académie of Ballet, Nadege Hottier, American Ballet Theatre, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Ballet Austin, Ballet Hispanico, Lines Ballet, and Miami City Ballet. Professional Experience: Dance Theatre of Harlem (third season), Alberta Ballet in Canada, Ballet West, Charlotte Ballet (formerly NCDT), Ballet Etudes of South Florida, Vorhees Ballet Theatre, Ballet Des Amériques, Fjkdance, Collage Dance Collective, Black Iris Dance Project, Boca Ballet Theatre, Ballet Northwest, Traverse City Dance Project, and Accent Dance. Special Honors: In commemoration of Haitian Flag Day 2018, Sanford partnered with the Consulate General of Haiti in New York to organize and produce UNI, an art collective where he premiered the riveting ballet MAGA. In 2019, Sanford produced Sans-Souci, the

second staging in the UNI series and was honored by the Consulate General of Haiti in New York for his work in preserving Haitian culture. Repertoire includes works by George Balanchine, Nacho Duato, Glenn Tetley, Desmond Richardson, Robert Garland, Mark Diamond, Yukicchi Hattori, Wen Wei Wang and Aszure

KAMALA SAARA Born: Los Angeles, California.

Training: Yuir Grigoriev School of Ballet, School of American Ballet. Professional Experience: Dance Theatre of Harlem (first season). Kamala is a recipient of the Grow Annenberg Fellowship and was a full scholarship student at the School of American Ballet.

ANTHONY SANTOS Born: New York, New York.

Training: Rosie’s Theatre Kids, North Carolina School of the Arts, Jacobs Pillow, Alonzo King LINES, Joffrey Ballet. Professional experience: Dance Theatre of Harlem (fifth season), Kaatsbaan, Zest Collective, La Spezia Jazz Festival and Caitlin Trainor Dance.

Repertoire includes Susan Jaffe’s Polivestian, Doug Varone’s Democracy, Christopher Wheldon’s This Bitter Earth, Lucinda Child’s Concerto, Ulyesses Dove’s Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven, Robert Garland’s Return, New Bach and Braham’s Variation, Darrell Grand Moultrie’s Vessels, Harlem on my Mind, Geoffrey Holder’s Dougla, Paul Taylor’s Esplanade, Merce Cunningham’s Sounddance, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Balamouk, Stanton Welch’s Orange, and Sasha Jane’s Lascia la Spina.

DYLAN SANTOS Born: São Paulo, Brazil.

Training: Centro de Artes Pavilhao D under Ricardo Scheir and Harid Conservatory.

Professional experience: Dance Theatre of Harlem (eighth season), Houston Ballet trainee, Orlando Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Ballet Chicago, and Paris Opera Ballet. Repertoire includes works by George Balanchine, Nacho Duato, Robert Garland, and Ulysses Dove, and Marius Petipa.

CRYSTAL SERRANO Born: Denver, Colorado.

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INGRID SILVA Born: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Training: Projeto Dan-cando Para Nao Dancar, Escola de Danca Maria Olenewa, and Centro de Movimento Debora Colker.

Education: Universidade da Cidade.

Professional experience: Dance Theatre of Harlem (tenth season), Grupo Corpo (apprentice), Dance Theatre of Harlem Ensemble, Dançando Para Não Dançar, Armitage Gone! Dance, and the Francesca Harper Project. Repertoire includes works by Arthur Mitchell, Donald Byrd, George Balanchine, Dianne McIntyre, John Alleyne, Darrel Grand Moultrie, Francesca Harper, Robert Garland, David Fernandez, Carol Armitage, Deborah Colker, Rodrigo Pederneiras ans Annabelle Lopez-Ocha. In 2017 Silva was the first African Brazilian to be on the cover of Pointe Magazine and appeared on the cover of Vogue Brasil November 2020.

She is the Founder of EmpowHerNY & CoFounder of Blacks in Ballet.

AMANDA SMITH Born: Orange County, California. Training: Charlotte Ballet, SUNY Purchase, Joffrey Ballet School, Anaheim Ballet, Pointe of Grace, Ballet Pacifica. Professional Experience: Dance Theatre of Harlem (fifth season), Charlotte Ballet, New York Theatre Ballet, Black Iris Project. Repertoire includes works by George Balanchine, Mark Diamond, Sasha James, Dwight Rhoden, Alonzo King, Jiri Killian, Dianne McIntyre and Helen Pickett.

DELANEY WASHINGTON Born: San Francisco Bay area, California. Training: Lise la Cour’s LaCademy, The Ailey School/Fordham University, and Jacob’s Pillow Summer Program 2021 under the direction of Helen Pickett and Milton Myers. Professional Experience: Palm Beach Dance Festival, Dance Theatre of Harlem (first season). Repertoire includes works by Dwight Rhoden, Helen Simoneau,

Yusha Marie-Sorzano, Maurya Kerr, Pedro Ruiz, and Andre Zachery. Delaney is the recipient of the Alvin Ailey Artistic Scholarship.

STEPHANIE RAE WILLIAMS Born: Salt Lake City, Utah.

Training: Dallas Dance Academy with Lyndette Galen and Fiona Fairrie, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Springboard Danse Montreal, The Juilliard School, Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet, and Houston Ballet Academy. Professional experience: Dance Theatre of Harlem (12th season), The Francesca Harper Project, ARC Dance Seattle, Complexions Contemporary Dance Company, Ballet Black, and Texas Ballet Theatre. Repertoire includes works by Pam Tanowitz, Nacho Duato, Jose Limon, Helen Pickett, Arthur Mitchell, Donald Byrd, George Balanchine, John Alleyne, Dianne McIntyre, Darrel Grand Moultrie, Francesca Harper, Liam Scarlett, Robert Garland, and David Fernandez. Stephanie is the recipient of The Dallas Dance Council’s 2017 Natalie Skelton Award, 2013 Dance Magazine “On the Rise”, 2006 National Foundation for the Arts Award, 2006 Youth America Grand Prix finalist, Oprah Winfrey Fellowship recipient at the Ailey School, 2004 Texas Commission on the Arts Young Master.

DAVID WRIGHT Born: Ft. Polk, Louisiana.

Training: Infiniti Performing Arts Center, Indiana Ballet Conservatory, Orlando Ballet School. Professional Experience: Orlando Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem (first season).

Repertoire: Jorden Morris’ Moulin Rouge, Val Caniparolis’ Lamberna, Orlando Ballet’s Nutcracker, and Carmina Burana. David was Finalist at the Beijing International Ballet and Choreography Competition 2019.

VIRGINIA JOHNSON (Artistic Director) was a founding member and principal dancer with the company for 27 years. Born in Washington, DC, she graduated from the Academy of the Washington School of Ballet and briefly attended the School of the Arts at New York University as a University Scholar before joining DTH in 1969.

Universally recognized as one of the great ballerinas of her generation, she is perhaps best known for her performances in the ballets

Giselle, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Fall River Legend. During her years with the company, she performed most of the repertoire, with principal roles in Concerto Barocco, Allegro Brillante, Agon, A Streetcar Named Desire, Fall River Legend, Swan Lake, Giselle, Voluntaries, and Les Biches, among others, several of which were recorded for broadcast on PBS, network television and cable.

Her choreographic credits include the television film Ancient Voices of Children, and works for Goucher College, Dancers Responding to AIDS, the Second Annual Harlem Festival of the Arts, Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center, and Marymount Manhattan College, where she was an adjunct professor.

While still performing, her interest in journalism led her to Fordham University.

After retiring from performing, she received an Independent Artist Grant from The Field that opened doors to arts producing. She attended the School of Visual Arts where she studied drawing, filmmaking and television production before the opportunity to create POINTE magazine presented itself. She was founding editor-in-chief from 2000–2009.

Her honors include a Young Achiever Award from the National Council of Women, Outstanding Young Woman of America, the Dance Magazine Award, a Pen and Brush Achievement Award, the Washington Performing Arts Society’s 2008–2009 Pola Nirenska Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2009 Martha Hill Fund Mid-Career Award and honorary doctorates from Cornish College of the Arts and Juilliard. She is an honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and The Society, Inc.. In February 2016 she was honored by First Lady Michelle Obama at the White house for her contribution to the field of dance. In 2018 she held the Brackett Visiting OPENINGNIGH T S .F SU.ED U | 25

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ARTHUR MITCHELL (Co-Founder) is known around the world for creating and sustaining the Dance Theatre of Harlem, the internationally acclaimed ballet company he co-founded with Karel Shook in 1969.

Following a brilliant career as a principal artist with the New York City Ballet, Mr. Mitchell dedicated his life to changing perceptions and advancing the art form of ballet through the first permanently-established African American and racially diverse ballet company.

Born in New York City in 1934, Mr. Mitchell began his dance training at New York City’s High School of the Performing Arts, where he won the coveted annual dance award and subsequently a full scholarship to the School of American Ballet. In 1955, he became the first male African American to become a permanent member of a major ballet company when he joined New York City Ballet. Mr. Mitchell rose quickly to the rank of Principal Dancer during his 15-year career with New York City Ballet and electrified audiences with his performances in a broad spectrum of roles.

Upon learning of the death of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and with financial assistance from Mrs. Alva B. Gimbel, the Ford Foundation and his own savings, Mr. Mitchell founded Dance Theatre of Harlem with his mentor and ballet instructor Karel Shook.

With an illustrious career that spanned over 50 years, Mr. Mitchell was the recipient of the

Kennedy Center Honors, a National Medal of the Arts, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the New York Living Landmark Award, the Handel Medallion, the NAACP Image Award, and more than a dozen honorary degrees.

KAREL SHOOK (Co-Founder) played a key role as teacher and mentor to African American dance artists in New York in the 1950s. In addition to co-founding Dance Theatre of Harlem with Arthur Mitchell in 1969, he also was a ballet master, choreographer and author.

Born in 1920, Mr. Shook was a native of Renton, Washington. Encouraged to study ballet, at age 13 he was a protégé of Nellie Cornish and received a scholarship to the Cornish School of Allied Arts in Seattle. While his performance career was brief, he appeared on Broadway and danced with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and New York City Ballet.

Mr. Shook’s brief performance career led to teaching and choreographing, mainly in Europe but also in New York. In the early 50s he opened Studio Arts, one of the few dance studios in the city where African Americans could study ballet. Among his students were Carmen de Lavallade, Pearl Primus, Geoffrey Holder, Louis Johnson, Alvin Ailey and Arthur Mitchell, who first came to him at age 17. Mr. Shook left New York in 1959 to become the ballet master of the Dutch National Ballet, where he was when his former student, Arthur Mitchell, asked him to return to New York to help create the Dance Theatre of Harlem.

Mr. Shook was an advocate of the universality of classical ballet. His book, Elements of Classical Ballet explores the development of classical ballet in such countries across the globe as China, Turkey, Iran, Japan, Cuba and Mexico.

In 1980 he was awarded the United States Presidential Award for “Excellence and Dedication in Education.”

ROBERT GARLAND (Resident Choreographer) was a member of the Dance Theatre of Harlem Company achieving the rank of principal dancer. After creating a work for the DTH School Ensemble, Arthur Mitchell invited Robert to create a work for The Dance Theatre of Harlem Company and appointed him the organization’s first Resident Choreographer. He is Director of the DTH school.

In addition to choreographing several ballets for DTH, Mr. Garland has also created works

for New York City Ballet, Britain’s Royal Ballet, Oakland Ballet and many others. His commercial work has included music videos, commercials and short films, including the children’s television show Sesame Street, a Nike commercial featuring New York Yankee Derek Jeter, the NAACP Image Awards, a short film for designer Donna Karan, and the “Charmin Cha-Cha” for Proctor and Gamble. Mr. Garland holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Juilliard School in New York City.

ANNA GLASS (Executive Director) has been involved in the performing arts as both an artist and arts administrator for over 20years.

She produced Carmen de Lavallade’s solo show, As I Remember It, an intimate portrait of this legendary artist. Anna previously served as the Managing Director of 651 ARTS, a presenting/producing arts organization dedicated to celebrating contemporary performing arts of the African Diaspora. While at 651 ARTS, she co-produced numerous projects, including the highly regarded national tour of FLY: Five First Ladies of Dance.

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DTH Company is proud to be supported by: Anonymous, Alphadyne Foundation, Bank of America, Bloomberg LP, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Con Edison, Cornell Family Foundation, Dance/ NYC, Davis/Dauray Family Fund, The Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation, Dora Donner Ide Core Trust, Downtown Music Holdings, Elephant Rock Foundation, Ford Foundation, Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, The DuBose & Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund, The William Talbot Hillman Foundation, The Jockey Hollow Foundation, The Klein Family Foundation, The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, John L. McHugh Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Margaret T. Morris Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts with support of the Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council, Paulson Family Foundation, Tatiana Piankova Foundation, Charles H. Revson Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Shutterfly, The Shubert Foundation, The Thompson Family Foundation, Venable Foundation.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Ackneil M. Muldrow III, Chairman Leslie Wims Morris, Vice-Chairman Zandra Perry Ogbomo, Treasurer Martino R. Moore, Secretary Nancy Pforzheimer Aronson Kendrick F. Ashton Jr. Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts III Kevin M. Cofsky Richard E. Constable III Isabel Kallman Erika Munro Tangela Richter Scott Simpson

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