balletwarrior:“Do you know what it took for Balanchine to put me, a black man, on stage with a white
balletwarrior:“Do you know what it took for Balanchine to put me, a black man, on stage with a white woman? This was 1957, before civil rights. He showed me how to take her [holding her delicately by the wrist]. He said, ‘put your hand on top.’ The skin colors were part of the choreography. He saw what was going to happen in the world and put it on stage.” -Arthur Mitchell Arthur Mitchell and Diana Adams rehearsing Balanchine’s Agon, 1957Here we recognize the true genius. -- source link
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