[6/7] Last week @dancetheatreofharlem celebrated Founders’ Week, marking the 56th anniversary of the company. Arthur Mitchell: “The...

Dance Theatre of Harlem opens at Apollo Theater. Arthur Mitchell, instructs audience of senior citizens, groups of children and...

Photo by Marbeth, 1969--70 [3/7] This week @dancetheatreofharlem celebrates Founders’ Week, marking the 56th anniversary of the company....

Arthur Mitchell teaching at DTH school 1969-70. Photo by Marbeth. "Despite his own success (indeed, because of it), Mitchell realized the...

Lydia Abarca and Derek Williams perform Balanchine's Agon. Photo by Anthony Crickmay [1/7] This week @dancetheatreofharlem celebrates...

In this episode, Theara discusses her early career in the Dance Theatre of Harlem under Arthur Mitchell and how that experience prepared...

In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Puck is a mischievous fairy who is a servant to Oberon, the fairy king. Originally danced by Arthur...

(20/50) "In 1958, Balanchine removed the grand pas de deux, substituting for it a dance for the Sugar Plum Fairy supported not by a...

(12/50) I love these two photos of Arthur Mitchell dancing Balanchine's 1954 choreography for Arabian/Coffee. He just looks so radiant...

(2/2) Balanchine on his 1968 revival of Slaughter on Tenth Avenue: "It is not really a revival of the old Slaughter, just that we are...

Former Dance Theatre of Harlem Artist, Christopher Charles McDaniel, talks to us about his experiences in the studio as one of Arthur...

In 1962, NYCB went on tour to the Soviet Union. Allegra performed Agon with Arthur Mitchell. She wrote: “I was filling in for Diana Adams...

(12/12) “If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did...

(2/12) Here are additional photos from the original 1962 production. When Balanchine was a child, he was an elf in a production of...

(1/12) Twelve performances of A Midsummer Night’s Dream begins today! These first two posts feature photos from the original production...

“In my opinion it is [Stravinsky’s]—it is our—most perfect work, representing a total collaboration between musician and choreographer.”...

(4/4) Today is for the men of Afternoon of a Faun. Eddie Villella shared in his autobiography: “I learned that I had actually been...

(3/4) Another moment in the genesis of the ballet came one day when Robbins watched dancers rehearsing the Swan Lake adagio and was...

(1/4) The beauty of these photos gives me chills. Jerome Robbins working with two casts of dancers on Afternoon of a Faun in 1964. Edward...

Tonight is the first night of the Short Stories program! Featured in this post is the NYCB premiere of Slaughter on Tenth Avenue with...