The elegant 86-year-old in pink putting young members of the Dance Theatre of Harlem through their paces ("Lighten up!") just happens to be one of the pioneers of American Modern Dance: Carmen de ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ms. de Lavallade in 2017. - (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post) Carmen de Lavallade, a dancer whose transformative powers onstage ...

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Carmen de Lavallade, a groundbreaking dancer, choreographer and actress whose six-decade career reshaped modern dance and theater while breaking racial barriers, died Monday in New Jersey. She was 94.

Carmen de Lavallade exudes elegance merely walking down the sidewalk. The legendary performer broke barriers in dance and brought tears to the eyes of big band leaders like Duke Ellington. CBS News' ...

Carmen De Lavallade has a few thoughts on what it means to be an artist. “The arts take a lot of time,” she told ESSENCE. “It’s a whole other process. You can’t be discovered tomorrow with no ...

RICHMOND — "You gotta sliiide into it," says Carmen de Lavallade, who, at 86, has no trouble showing three young ballerinas how to swish a hip with ease. "Look: It's a jazz hip. Don't make a move out ...

Maija García’s “Jazz Island” is a full-company narrative of a kind that Ailey hasn’t done in a while. And it features an Afro-Caribbean score by Etienne Charles. By Brian Seibert A new cultural hub ...

Carmen de Lavallade, a dancer whose transformative powers onstage and mesmerizing beauty inspired artistic collaborators as wide-ranging as Agnes de Mille, Alvin Ailey and her husband, Geoffrey Holder ...

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