Dallas Black Dance Theatre last season celebrated its 30th season as the oldest, continuously operating professional dance company in Dallas. The ensemble, a contemporary modern dance company, consists of 14 professional dancers performing a mixed repertory of modern, jazz, ethnic and spiritual works by nationally and internationally known choreographers which include: Alvin Ailey, Talley Beatty, Donald Byrd, Alonzo King, Milton Myers, Elisa Monte, 
Donald McKayle, Kevin Jeff, Christopher Huggins, Jessica Lang, Bruce Wood, Nejla Yatkin, David Parsons and Darryl Sneed. Founded in 1976 by Ann Williams, Dallas Black Dance Theatre’s mission is to create and produce contemporary modern dance at its highest level of artistic excellence through performances and educational programs that bridge cultures and reach diverse communities. With an ever-expanding national and global audience, the company employs a diverse, multi-ethnic troupe of dancers performing for audiences of all ages and backgrounds.
“The performers are feisty, fearless and well-trained. The troupe is in good shape- capable of the unexpected.” - The New York Times
“Dallas Black Dance Theatre has more depth and soul than most and rates up there with the best companies in terms of dance mastery and expertise.” - El Paso Times
The company is nationally recognized for its arts-in-education residencies and outreach programs. Designed to build critical thinking skills, connect youths to themselves and their own culture, and to invigorate the educational process by building connections between the construction and execution of dance as an art form and traditional learning techniques, these programs each year expose over 40,000 school children in Dallas and throughout the country to the dance forms of ballet, modern, jazz, hip-hop and African dance.
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