Dance Archives - Infinite Women

Tina Turner

The year she turned 45, singer Tina Turner began one of the most impressive comebacks in music history.

Jennifer Homans published Apollo’s Angels in 2010, a history of classical ballet that she had been working on for ten years. It is an epic work, tracing four centuries and spanning different countries, setting the evolution of the form in the many political, philosophical, and aesthetic contexts that shaped it.

Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards

Tap dancer Dormeshia had a well-established career as a dancer from a young age, making her Broadway debut in the musical revue Black and Blue when she was just 13.

Rosy Simas

American dancer and choreographer

Theresa Ruth Howard

Founder of “Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet” (MoBBallet), which “preserves, presents, and promotes the contributions and stories of Black artists in the field of Ballet, illustrating that they are an integral part of dance history at large,” in 2015.

Melanie George

American dance educator, choreographer, dramaturg, and scholar, and an activist working to deconstruct the hierarchies of dance.

Gesel Mason

After more than a decade of collaborating with African American choreographers on solo pieces created for her as a dancer, Gesel Mason turned that body of work into a digital archive, “No Boundaries: Dancing the Visions of Contemporary Black Choreographers”