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Lorraine Graves, Pioneering Harlem Ballerina, Dies at 66

Tall and commanding, she dazzled audiences as a principal dancer for the groundbreaking Dance Theater of Harlem for nearly two decades.

By Alex Williams

Black People Dance Theater of Harlem Dancing Deaths (Obituaries) Giselle (Ballet) Graves, Lorraine (1957-2024) Mitchell, Arthur The Firebird (Ballet)

Lorraine Graves, Pioneering Harlem Ballerina, Dies at 66

Tall and commanding, she dazzled audiences as a principal dancer for the groundbreaking Dance Theater of Harlem for nearly two decades.

By Alex Williams

Actors and Actresses Belafonte, Harry Belafonte, Julie Robinson (1928-2024) Black People Civil Rights Movement (1954-68) Dancing Deaths (Obituaries) Dunham, Katherine Los Angeles (Calif) Washington Heights (Manhattan, NY)

Julie Robinson Belafonte, Dancer, Actress and Activist, Dies at 95

With the singer Harry Belafonte, she was one half of a celebrated (and sometimes denounced) interracial power couple who pressed the cause of civil rights in the 1960s

By Ian Zack

Dancing Illinoise (Play) Park Avenue Armory (Manhattan, NY) Peck, Justin St James Theater Stevens, Sufjan Theater Theater (Broadway)

‘Illinoise,’ a Sufjan Stevens Dance Musical, Is Moving to Broadway

The production will make its transfer unusually fast, with an opening set for April 24, just 29 days after it wraps up a sold-out run at the Park Avenue Armory.

By Michael Paulson