"Arthur Mitchell and the Dance Theater of Harlem"
Magazine article
By: Olga Maynard
Date: March 1970
Source: Maynard, Olga. "Arthur Mitchell and the Dance Theater of Harlem." Dance Magazine, March 1970, 52–64.
Introduction
Harlem had been a place of artistic innovation and cultural experimentation in the 1920s. Artists, poets, and writers had all called Harlem home and had drawn their inspiration from its surroundings. By the time Arthur Mitchell was born in 1934, the Harlem Renaissance was over. He recalls that he was rebellious and restless and that he came under that influence of a street gang. Education and dance saved him, however. In the 1930s and 1940s, it was not common to see African Americans in dance other than jazz or tap, so Mitchell had no role models in ballet. His dance education began with a scholarship to the High School for Performing Arts in New York and continued at the School of American Ballet...
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