@plainlyunfiltered, Black Royalty, shared the text and video below.

In honor of Melanated March… a melanated march. 🖤🎺

#blackwomen #92percent #blackmusic #blackdance #blackculture #blacksky #addtoblacksky

News/Opinion: Search for Next Executive Director at Dallas Black Dance Theatre Launches | Black PR Wire, Inc. A New Chapter Unfolds for Dallas Black Dance TheatreAs we step into a new year, the Dallas Black Dance Theatre (DBDT) is embarking on an exciting journey. After a unanimous decision by the Dallas City Council to restore funding, the theatre has launched a search for its next Executive Director. This pivotal moment marks a significant milestone in the institutions 50-year history, and were thrilled to share the details of this transformative process.A Proactive ApproachIn response to the recommendations made by an independent advisory task force comprising civic, business, and nonprofit leaders, DBDT has taken a proactive approach to ensure its continued success. The theatre is committed to finding the right leader who will not only maintain but also elevate its mission and serve the community for generations to come.A Five-Member Committee Takes the HelmLed by Chairman Jack Skinner of the Dallas Black Dance Theatre Governance Committee, a five-member committee has been formed to oversee this critical search process. This esteemed group includes two external members with extensive experience in arts management and organizational leadership: Kim Noltemy, President & Chief Executive Officer of the Los Angeles Philharmonic; and Dr. Zannie Giraurd Voss, recently retired as Director of SMU DataArts.A Wealth of ExpertiseThe committee also comprises three members of the DBDT Board of Directors: Christopher Plumlee, Founder and President of Elevate Strategies; Paulette Turner, founder of Integrated Leadership Concepts Inc.; and Jack Skinner himself. This diverse group brings a wealth of expertise in arts management, leadership development, and organizational growth.Guidance from a Renowned ExpertTo provide additional guidance and support throughout the search process, DBDT has enlisted the expertise of Michael M. Kaiser, Founder and Chairman of the DeVos Institute of Arts and Nonprofit Management. As President Emeritus of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Kaiser brings invaluable experience as an Executive Director of renowned institutions such as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, and the Royal Ballet and Opera.A Legacy of ExcellenceFounded in 1976 by Ann Williams, DBDT has established itself as a leading force in contemporary modern dance. With a mission to create and produce performances that bridge cultures and reach diverse communities, the theatre has become the largest and oldest professional dance company in Dallas. Its impressive track record includes performances at prestigious venues such as Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Broadway, Jacobs Pillow, and Joyce Theatre, as well as appearances at three Olympics.A Bright Future AheadAs DBDT embarks on this new chapter, its clear that the theatre is committed to its mission and dedicated to finding a leader who will propel it forward. With a proactive approach, a talented search committee, and expert guidance from Michael M. Kaiser, we have no doubt that DBDT will continue to thrive and inspire audiences for generations to come.In conclusion, this exciting development marks an important milestone in the history of Dallas Black Dance Theatre. As we look to the future, were reminded of the power of arts and culture to bring people together and transcend boundaries. With a new Executive Director on the horizon, DBDT is poised to continue its legacy of excellence and make a lasting impact on the world stage.About the Author[Your Name] is a passionate advocate for the arts and a long-time supporter of Dallas Black Dance Theatre. As a blogger and writer, [Your Name] has a deep appreciation for the transformative power of dance and the importance of preserving cultural heritage.

News/Opinion: Search for Next Executive Director at Dallas Black Dance Theatre Launches | Black PR Wire, Inc.: A New Chapter Unfolds for Dallas Black Dance TheatreAs we step into a new year, the Dallas Black Dance Theatre (DBDT) is… #Tennessee #ChapterUnfolds #UnfoldsDallas #DallasBlack #BlackDance

Klaus Schulze "Blackdance", Brain, 1974 (re.) Klaus Schulze (synthesizer, organ, piano, percussion, 12-string acoustic guitar), Ernst Walter Siemon (voice). Cover by Urs Amann. #klausschulze #blackdance #brainrecords #kosmischemusik #vinyl #nowplaying #musicsky #vinylsky #vinylcommunity

BLOOD MEMORIES - Bypo Revolution You were a pioneerYou left a legacyGiving voice to aspirationAccessing blood memories Your dance an infernoYour energy supersonicThe majesty of AileyLiberation embryonic The power of RevelationsThe ri...

Your choreography thrives
These portals to blood memories
Animating the black experience
Redefining the American legacy

BLOOD MEMORIES byporevolution.com/2025/06/bloo...
inspired by Alvin Ailey
#AlvinAiley #BlackDance #ModernDance #Ballet #poetry #poem #prophecy #race #racism #spirituality #joy

A Revelation Birthed from African American Culture A slew of faces, both young and old, look toward the stage; they are present and alert.

Jasmine M. Taylor reflects on the powerful experience of witnessing an Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performance—where #dance, #music, and memory come together to honor ancestral pride.
#AlvinAiley #BlackCulture #DanceTheater #BlackDance #ArtThatHeals #BlackArt #Essay #BlackWriters #Writers

BLOOD MEMORIES - Bypo Revolution You were a pioneerYou left a legacyGiving voice to aspirationAccessing blood memories Your dance an infernoYour energy supersonicThe majesty of AileyLiberation embryonic The power of RevelationsThe ri...

The power of Revelations
The riptides of Cry
Dance transcending time
Movement a subterranean fire

BLOOD MEMORIES byporevolution.com/2025/06/bloo...
inspired by Alvin Ailey
#AlvinAiley #poetry #poem #prophecy #BlackDance #ModernDance #faith #spirituality #race #racism #segregation #joy

BLOOD MEMORIES - Bypo Revolution You were a pioneerYou left a legacyGiving voice to aspirationAccessing blood memories Your dance an infernoYour energy supersonicThe majesty of AileyLiberation embryonic The power of RevelationsThe ri...

The power of Revelations
The riptides of Cry
Dance transcending time
Movement a subterranean fire

BLOOD MEMORIES byporevolution.com/2025/06/bloo...
inspired by Alvin Ailey
#tantra #tantric #poetry #poem #AlvinAiley #prophecy #BlackDance #ModernDance #faith #spirituality #BloodMemories #joy

BLOOD MEMORIES - Bypo Revolution You were a pioneerYou left a legacyGiving voice to aspirationAccessing blood memories Your dance an infernoYour energy supersonicThe majesty of AileyLiberation embryonic The power of RevelationsThe ri...

Your choreography thrives
These portals to blood memories
Animating the black experience
Redefining the American legacy

BLOOD MEMORIES byporevolution.com/2025/06/bloo...
inspired by Alvin Ailey
#tantra #tantric #faith #spirituality #AlvinAiley #ModernDance #BlackDance #race #racism #segregation

BLOOD MEMORIES - Bypo Revolution You were a pioneerYou left a legacyGiving voice to aspirationAccessing blood memories Your dance an infernoYour energy supersonicThe majesty of AileyLiberation embryonic The power of RevelationsThe ri...

You died at fifty-eight
You died with open secrets
Your gay identity
The cocaine and the virus

BLOOD MEMORIES byporevolution.com/2025/06/bloo...
inspired by Alvin Ailey
#AlvinAiley #BlackDance #ModernDance #poetry #poem #prophecy #tantra #tantric #AIDS #addiction #dance #faith #spirituality #joy

BLOOD MEMORIES - Bypo Revolution You were a pioneerYou left a legacyGiving voice to aspirationAccessing blood memories Your dance an infernoYour energy supersonicThe majesty of AileyLiberation embryonic The power of RevelationsThe ri...

The power of Revelations
The riptides of Cry
Dance transcending time
Movement a subterranean fire

BLOOD MEMORIES byporevolution.com/2025/06/bloo...
inspired by Alvin Ailey
#BlackDance #ModernDance #AlvinAiley #LesterHorton #Horton #poetry #poem #prophecy #tantra #tantric #faith #spirituality #joy

BLOOD MEMORIES - Bypo Revolution You were a pioneerYou left a legacyGiving voice to aspirationAccessing blood memories Your dance an infernoYour energy supersonicThe majesty of AileyLiberation embryonic The power of RevelationsThe ri...

You died at fifty-eight
You died with open secrets
Your gay identity
The cocaine and the virus

BLOOD MEMORIES byporevolution.com/2025/06/bloo...
inspired by Alvin Ailey
#AlvinAiley #ModernDance #BlackDance #poetry #poem #prophecy #AIDS #HIV #addiction #tantra #tantric #faith #spirituality #racism

BLOOD MEMORIES - Bypo Revolution You were a pioneerYou left a legacyGiving voice to aspirationAccessing blood memories Your dance an infernoYour energy supersonicThe majesty of AileyLiberation embryonic The power of RevelationsThe ri...

You died at fifty-eight
You died with open secrets
Your gay identity
The cocaine and the virus

BLOOD MEMORIES byporevolution.com/2025/06/bloo...
inspired by Alvin Ailey
#AlvinAiley #dance #ModernDance #BlackDance #poetry #poem #prophecy #HIV #AIDS #addiction #cocaine #tantra #tantric #race #racism

BLOOD MEMORIES - Bypo Revolution You were a pioneerYou left a legacyGiving voice to aspirationAccessing blood memories Your dance an infernoYour energy supersonicThe majesty of AileyLiberation embryonic The power of RevelationsThe ri...

Your choreography thrives
These portals to blood memories
Animating the black experience
Redefining the American legacy

BLOOD MEMORIES byporevolution.com/2025/06/bloo...
inspired by Alvin Ailey
#AlvinAiley #poetry #poem #prophecy #faith #spirituality #tantra #tantric #ModernDance #BlackDance #joy

BLOOD MEMORIES - Bypo Revolution You were a pioneerYou left a legacyGiving voice to aspirationAccessing blood memories Your dance an infernoYour energy supersonicThe majesty of AileyLiberation embryonic The power of RevelationsThe ri...

You died at fifty-eight
You died with open secrets
Your gay identity
The cocaine and the virus

BLOOD MEMORIES byporevolution.com/2025/06/bloo...
inspired by Alvin Ailey
#AlvinAiley #BloodMemories #BlackDance #ModernDance #addiction #recoveryposse #queer #LGBTQ #poetry #poem #prophecy

BLOOD MEMORIES - Bypo Revolution You were a pioneerYou left a legacyGiving voice to aspirationAccessing blood memories Your dance an infernoYour energy supersonicThe majesty of AileyLiberation embryonic The power of RevelationsThe ri...

Your dance an inferno
Your energy supersonic
The majesty of Ailey
Liberation embryonic

BLOOD MEMORIES byporevolution.com/2025/06/bloo...
inspired by Alvin Ailey
#AlvinAiley #poetry #poem #prophecy #tantra #tantric #dance #ballet #BlackDance #ModernDance #race #racism #liberation #joy

BLOOD MEMORIES - Bypo Revolution You were a pioneerYou left a legacyGiving voice to aspirationAccessing blood memories Your dance an infernoYour energy supersonicThe majesty of AileyLiberation embryonic The power of RevelationsThe ri...

The power of Revelations
The riptides of Cry
Dance transcending time
Movement a subterranean fire

BLOOD MEMORIES byporevolution.com/2025/06/bloo...
inspired by Alvin Ailey
#AlvinAiley #ModernDance #BlackDance #poetry #poem #prophecy #dance #ballet #race #racism #segregation #liberation

BLOOD MEMORIES - Bypo Revolution You were a pioneerYou left a legacyGiving voice to aspirationAccessing blood memories Your dance an infernoYour energy supersonicThe majesty of AileyLiberation embryonic The power of RevelationsThe ri...

Your choreography thrives
These portals to blood memories
Animating the black experience
Redefining the American legacy

BLOOD MEMORIES byporevolution.com/2025/06/bloo...
inspired by Alvin Ailey
#AlvinAiley #dance #BlackDance #ModernDance #poetry #poem #prophecy #race #racism #liberation #joy

BLOOD MEMORIES - Bypo Revolution You were a pioneerYou left a legacyGiving voice to aspirationAccessing blood memories Your dance an infernoYour energy supersonicThe majesty of AileyLiberation embryonic The power of RevelationsThe ri...

You died at fifty-eight
You died with open secrets
Your gay identity
The cocaine and the virus

BLOOD MEMORIES byporevolution.com/2025/06/bloo...
inspired by Alvin Ailey
#gay #queer #pride #AIDS #AlvinAiley #dance #BlackDance #ModernDance #poetry #poem #prophecy #race #racism #segregation #joy

BLOOD MEMORIES - Bypo Revolution You were a pioneerYou left a legacyGiving voice to aspirationAccessing blood memories Your dance an infernoYour energy supersonicThe majesty of AileyLiberation embryonic The power of RevelationsThe ri...

Your dance an inferno
Your energy supersonic
The majesty of Ailey
Liberation embryonic

BLOOD MEMORIES byporevolution.com/2025/06/bloo...
inspired by Alvin Ailey
#AlvinAiley #BlackDance #ModernDance #ballet #poetry #poem #prophecy #race #racism #segregation #JimCrow #legacy #gay #queer #LGBTQ #pride

TLC- Black History Fun Facts 🎼

Doc-

#tlc #randb #blackmusic #blackmusicmonth #noscrubs #tboz #lefteye #chilli #blackmusicmonth #creep #blackwomen #blackmusicgroup #blackdance #scrubs #blackhistory #bio #vh1 #90s

Born legally a free man, due to the "Free Womb" law,

Teodorinho had been playing capoeira since he was 10 years old and had learned it from "old black men", runaway slaves who hid in the woods.

He himself needed it to "enforce" his legal freedom.

#Blacksky #AddToBlackSky #BlackDance #BlackMusic

Katherine Dunham: The Mother Of Black Dance In America As we celebrate the pioneers who have shaped the world of dance during Black History Month, we pay tribute to Katherine Dunham,… The post Katherine Dunham: The Mother Of Black Dance In America appeared first on Shine My Crown.

Katherine Dunham: The Mother Of Black Dance In America: As we celebrate the pioneers who have shaped the world of dance during Black History Month, we pay tribute to Katherine Dunham,…

The post Katherine Dunham: The Mother… #KatherineDunham #BlackHistoryMonth #DancePioneer #BlackDance #DanceHistory

BHM 2025 No 8

Cakewalk
The Cakewalk was a dance contest where a prize was offered, usually a Cake. Staple of Minstrel shows & Vaudeville. Here's Aida Overton Walker, with husband George, The “Queen of The Calkwalk”.

#BlackhistoryMonth #BlackHistoryMonth2025 #Blackdance #Blackvaudeville #Cakewalk

A Black woman dances with her arms gesturing in front of her, and her eyes closed. She wears necklaces and bracelets, striped African cloth, and a turban.

A performer, scholar, and dance educator, Pearl Primus is one of my greatest inspirations, even though I was never able to meet her. She was one of the first dancers to get a PhD, and she taught my teacher and mentor at Temple University, Kariamu Welsh.
#Blackhistorymonth #Blackdance #bhm

Photos: Queensborough Community College holds annual Kwanzaa celebration – QNS Queensborough Community College in Bayside held its annual Kwanzaa celebration on Saturday, Dec. 14.The event featured performative dances from the Kofago

Thank you QNS for the article on our Kwanzaa Celebration event last weekend! #kwanzaa2024 #kwanzaacelebration #performingarts #blackdance

It was wonderful to see the matinee performance of Alvin Ailey Dance Company today! All classic Ailey works today, including Cry. Tremendous to see what Ailey and Judith Jamison have left as artistic legacies. #alvinailey #judithJamison #dance #blackdance

Katherine Dunham Performing Ballet Creole (1952)

#BlackDance
#BalletCreole
#WyrdWomen

A black and white photograph of Katherine Dunham looking sideways, and not directly at the camera in a head wrap with flowers, dangling earrings, and embroidered top with stripes and detailed edging.

Katherine Dunham: A Life in Dance

#ALifeInDance
#BlackDance
#WyrdWomen

Black and white photograph of Katherine Dunham from the side view in a striped dress with polka dot frills, her shoulders bare looking back at the camera.

Katherine Dunham was an American dancer, choreographer, anthropologist, and social activist. Dunham had one of the most successful dance careers of the 20th century. She has been called the "matriarch and queen mother of black dance."

#BlackDance
#QueenMother
#WyrdWomen

Sometimes, you have to break old habits and try something new. Let’s see where this goes! #kevchronicles #newmember #culture #newyork #kofago #dance #blackdance