Choreographer Donald McKayle, First Black Man To Direct A Broadway Musical, Dead At 87 by Artsjournal1

"He performed with modern-dance pioneers Martha Graham and José Limón while still in his teens. At 21, he formed his own dance company, whose members included such renowned figures as Alvin Ailey, Arthur Mitchell and Eliot Feld. [He] also choreographed several early works that have become acknowledged as modern-dance classics." In 1974 he directed and […]

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