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Atlanta black ballet company returns home after week-long performance in Washington D.C.
Atlanta black ballet firm performs at Kennedy Heart in Washington D.C.
ATLANTA — Atlanta’s solely black ballet firm is returning house after finishing a week-long efficiency at DC’s Kennedy Heart.
The Ballethnic ballet dancers have been invited to bop in a program referred to as “Reframing the Narrative” on the Kennedy Heart in Washington D.C. to rejoice Black ballet dancers and their historical past.
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The ballet firm was began over 30 years in the past by the co-founder’s, spouse and husband crew Nena Gilreath and Waverly Lucas.
They stated they noticed a necessity for a dance firm that might symbolize a spot the place black dancers and dancers of coloration may have a possibility and provides different dancers a platform.
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Ballethnic carried out a dance referred to as “Sanctity”.
The dance collection on the Kennedy Heart additionally featured two different predominantly black firms: The Dance Theater of Harlem and Memphis-based Collage Dance Collective.
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