10/10/2026
🖤 October is Black History Month, and as a dance charity we want to take a moment to celebrate the Black artists, teachers and communities whose creativity shaped so much of the dance we share in our studios every week, because jazz, tap, hip hop and street dance all grew out of African and African diaspora traditions, and our dancers move to that legacy every time they step onto the floor
Here in Britain, Jamaican-born dancer Berto Pasuka founded Les Ballets Nègres in London in 1946, widely recognised as the first Black dance company in Europe, then in 1981 three young men from Leeds started Phoenix Dance Theatre, and in 2001 Cassa Pancho founded Ballet Black to give Black and Asian dancers the place on the ballet stage they had too often been denied 🌟 Closer to home, Cardiff's Butetown is home to one of the oldest Black communities in the UK, and that history is part of the story of South Wales too.
Here is a throwback to the wonderful Black Lives Matter performance by Diversity from 2020
You can't help but watch in awe as Diversity command the stage with...
