The headlines about her death called her the first African American ballerina of the Metropolitan Opera, but Janet Collins was much more than that. A new biography, Night’s Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins, highlights the career of this pioneering artist, drawing partly on materials donated by Collins and others in the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Author Yaël Tamar Lewin will be speaking about her book …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 10:33AM on February 14, 2012