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HBDA PE 2016 - Ballroom

Posted by somebody on Friday, 18 March 2016

"Ballroom" segment from The History of Black Dance in America 2015 Juneteenth Celebration show.  This was a personal tribute to African-American Ballroom dancers Margo Webb and Harold Norton who performed in the 1930s and 1940s, in a time when White America  would not accept Blacks as Ballroom Dancers.  See: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2904159?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

My interest in Blacks and Ballroom was peaked many years ago when I saw this amazing photograph from a Debutante Cotillion Ball in Harlem in 1950: 

This was a story that had to be told: 

https://www.facebook.com/BlackDanceHistory/videos/vb.138825742879453/271...

Album: 
HBDA Photo Exhibit 2016
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