Dickerson, Betsy
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http://hdl.handle.net/11134/20002:860685468
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Creator (cre): Dickerson, Betsy Ann
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Dickerson, Betsy
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reformatted digital
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Hale Smith provides some personal background and introduces Ms. Dickerson who speaks on her experiences in Black musical theatre. Ms. Dickerson starts with her personal history and background with dance and writing. Dancer Betsy Dickerson lectured on 11/7/1978 (2015-0002/RR139). Dickerson was one of the first Black dancers at Radio City Ballet and had a career in musical theater. Betsy Ann Dickerson was born circa 1940 and grew up in Philadelphia. She attended the McKinley School and Abington High School. She received her dance training at Sydney King’s school, alongside Billy Wilson and Joan Myers Brown, and from the Juilliard School on scholarship. She was one of the first Black dancers at Radio City Ballet and had a career in musical theater. Dickerson performed in the original Broadway casts of <title render="italic">Bajour</title> (1964), <title render="italic">Sweet Charity</title> (1966), <title render="italic">Canterbury Tales</title> (1969), and <title render="italic">La Strada/title> (1969) and on the national tour of <title render="italic">The Unsinkable Molly Brown</title> (1962). In 1957, Dickerson taught ballet, modern, and jazz at Central Music Center in her home state of Pennsylvania. Later in her life she founded and directed The Dickerson Performing Arts Center. On January 31, 1960 at the 92nd Street Y, Dickerson appeared in the same Alvin Ailey performance in which <title render="italic">Revelations</title> first premiered. [https://mobballet.org/index.php/2021/01/08/betsy-ann-dickerson/]
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1 reel, 0:50:31; tape speed 3¾ IPS; track position ½-Track Mono; Substrate: Polyester.
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These Materials are provided for educational and research purposes only.
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41.8, -72.25
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Source identifier: MSS 2015.0002
MSS 2015.0002
2015-0002/RR139
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