02/12/2017
GM!
Today is our 48th Anniversary! Thank you ALL for your continued support of Dance Theatre of Harlem!
Celebrate forty-eight years of April 19-22 when the Company takes the stage at New York City Center >> http://bit.ly/2h6TAgy Use code HEART and save 20% on tickets $65 and up! Offer expires 2.14.17
Founded in 1969 by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook, Dance Theatre of Harlem was considered “one of ballet’s most exciting undertakings” (The New York Times, 1971). Shortly after the assassination of The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mitchell was inspired to start a school that would offer children — especially those in Harlem, the community in which he was born — the opportunity to learn about dance and the allied arts. Now in its fifth decade, Dance Theatre of Harlem has grown into a multi-cultural dance institution with an extraordinary legacy of providing opportunities for creative expression and artistic excellence that continues to set standards in the performing arts. Dance Theatre of Harlem has achieved unprecedented success, bringing innovative and bold new forms of artistic expression to audiences in New York City, across the country and around the world.
In this image, three former principal ballerinas from DTH's acclaimed Firebird (from l to r) Christina Johnson, Charmaine Hunter and Judy Tyrus.
Photo by Martha Swope