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...camped there one night to fish, and next morning 2,000 Indians-see their tepees? -had camped right behind us. And there's old Seabiscuit, the horse that won nearly half a million dollars." On the wall of the guest house is a Dutch windmill; there are ballet dancers in the tool shed, next to some Asian peasants crossing a footbridge. The fuse box is set in Hong Kong...
...terminology of dance that implies a ballerina and a danseur noble must be white?" asks Arthur Mitchell. The answer is "Nothing." As living and moving proof there is the career of Mitchell himself, the first (and only) black soloist with George Balanchine's New York City Ballet. Now there is also the Harlem Dance Theater, founded by Mitchell scarcely two years...
Last week Mitchell's new company gave its more or less official New York debut at Broadway's ANTA Theater. It was not so much a debut as a revelation. Traditionally, black American dance students have been consistently steered away from classical ballet and toward the supposedly more "suitable" fields of modern, ethnic or Broadway-chorus dancing. The Harlem Dance Theater performances showed beyond doubt that the practice was based not on rhyme but on prejudiced unreason...
Affecting Awkwardness. Considering Mitchell's own background, it was no surprise that the troupe sometimes looked a bit like a beige and sepia training school for the New York City Ballet. A trifle raw and stiff, Mitchell's young dancers nevertheless brought to the stage a springlike vitality and joy very much their own. Their version of Jerome Robbins' Afternoon of a Faun, a staple of the City Ballet Repertory, did not have the studied, languid ease customarily provided by Balanchine's company, but it did project an affecting awkwardness and feeling entirely appropriate...
...Brazil. King's assassination prompted him to ask himself what he could do for his own people back home. The answer: "Pay homage to the thing you do best." With the help of a Ford Foundation grant and the teaching skills of Karel Shook, the American-born ballet master of The Netherlands National Ballet, Mitchell was able to launch the Harlem company in the fall...