Anne Benna Sims
Anne Benna Sims was the first African-American danseuse at American Ballet Theatre[1] and the first African-American soloist in the company's history.[2] Sims danced with the Grands Ballets Canadiens in 1972.[3]
At ABT she was in the first cast of the company premiere of Paul Taylor's Airs (reconstructed by Eileen Cropley); other members of the cast were Lisa Rinehart, Janet Shibata, Rebecca Wright, Brian Adams, Warren Conover and Robert La Fosse.[4][Airs 1] She had earlier been featured in a revival of Antony Tudor's Undertow with Peter Fonseea. [Undertow 1][Undertow 2] Sims graduated from Bishop Reilly High School in 1970. Her sister is museum curator Lowery Stokes Sims.
Footnotes
- Jet, March 19, 1981, p. 64.
- Misty Copeland bio on BlackPast.org
- "La Bibliothèque de la danse, École supérieure de ballet contemporain de Montréal". Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
- "ABT website". Archived from the original on June 13, 2010. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
Reviews
Paul Taylor's Airs
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Antony Tudor's Undertow
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gollark: Well, it can't run quarrying at full power.
gollark: Maybe I should build a more powerful reactor.
gollark: The problem now is nicely processing them.
gollark: Good to see trading working, though the quarry is likely to wreck that.
gollark: Or `swing`.
External links
- Review by Brenda Dixon in Dance Research Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Spring 1990), pp. 31–32, University of Illinois Press, of Black Dance: An Annotated Bibliography by Alice J. Adamczyk, New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1989.
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