The dance world is mourning the loss of pioneer Ballerina Raven Wilkinson. A New York native who fell in love with ballet at the age of 5, Wilkinson is credited with being one of the first ...

Trailblazing ballerina Raven Wilkinson has passed away at the age of 83. The dancer, who was the first Black ballerina to sign a contract to dance full-time when she joined the Ballet Russe de ...

Misty Copeland, the first black ballerina to earn the coveted title of principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre, is known for smashing ceilings and breaking down barriers, heavily promoting ...

As history will tell you, it’s not easy being the first person to do anything. And for Raven Wilkinson, the very first ballerina to sign a contract to join a major dance company in the United States, ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Trailblazer: The Story of Ballerina Raven Wilkinson is a new children's book, that ...

A Sunday, March 19 performance by dance students at The Ebell Club Los Angeles will celebrate and pay tribute to a pioneer in the ballet world. Raven Wilkinson was the first African American woman to ...

Misty Copeland is betting the odds in more ways than one. She is anything but typical. Copeland is a Black woman with an athletic physique in ballet that has survived an almost career-ending injury to ...

Her mentor's new book tells the story of breaking racial barriers in ballet in the 1950s In the years since she became the first black ballerina to be a principal dancer with the American Ballet ...

“Many [Black] dancers never had the platform and the freedom to speak the way I do — and still have a job,” Misty Copeland told ArtsATL recently. Much has been written about Copeland, the first Black ...

Misty Copeland talks about her memoir "The Wind at My Back: Resilience, Grace, and Other Gifts from My Mentor Raven Wilkinson. Misty Copeland talks about her memoir "The Wind at My Back: Resilience, ...

Misty Copeland, the first black ballerina to earn the coveted title of principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre, is known for smashing ceilings and breaking down barriers, heavily promoting ...