new york city ballet - The Hilltop https://staging.thehilltoponline.com The Nation's Oldest Black Collegiate Newspaper Tue, 06 Sep 2022 14:16:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://staging.thehilltoponline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-NewHilltopLogo-32x32.jpg new york city ballet - The Hilltop https://staging.thehilltoponline.com 32 32 69877606 Solange Impacts the Next Generation of Black Dancers https://staging.thehilltoponline.com/2022/09/06/solange-impacts-the-next-generation-of-black-dancers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=solange-impacts-the-next-generation-of-black-dancers Tue, 06 Sep 2022 13:00:00 +0000 http://staging.thehilltoponline.com/?p=15813 The Black dance world celebrated when singer Solange Knowles became the first Black woman to compose a New York City Ballet score. Dancers like Janet Collins, Raven Wilkinson, Alvin Ailey and Misty Copeland were just a few pioneers who were turned away because of their skin color, body types and simply being Black. Solange achieving […]

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