‘The Swans of Harlem,’ by Karen Valby
These 5 Black Ballerinas Blazed Their Own Trail
Apr 27, 2024 by NYT > Books
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- Credit...Jack Vartoogian/Front Row Photos Danyel Smith Danyel Smith is the author of “Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop,” the host of the podcast Black Girl Songbook and a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine.
- Abarca’s family was so concerned by her erasure from dance history (and her apparent attendant depression) that they instigated the telling of this story.
- If it were just a quest for cultural redress, the result might have been a dusty scroll of the Swans’ ballet bona fides.
- And what is most remembered about a performance to Tchaikovsky’s “Serenade for Strings” is “the transcendent scene of 17 women onstage, swathed in the palest and pearliest of blues.”
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