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Podcast: The Institute of Black Imagination.
Episode: E24. Dancing Through Life with Performance Legend Carmen De Lavallade.
Description: Today’s Episode is with actress, choreographer and dance legend, Carmen De Lavallade. Raised by a single father in post-depression Los Angeles, Carmen began her formal training at 14, a bit late for female dancers, but that didn’t stop her one bit. Within 5 years she became a lead dancer under the tutelage of renown teacher and choreographer Lester Horton, who’s technique is taught in modern dance classes around the world. It was around this time she encountered another modern dance legend, eventually taking him to his first dance class, a young 15 year old gymnast by the name of Alvin Ai...