Janet Collins was an American choreographer and ballet dancer, born in 1917 in New Orleans, who died in 2003.
Biography
Janet Faye Collins, OblSB (March 7, 1917 – May 28, 2003) was an African American prima ballerina, choreographer, and teacher. She performed on Broadway, in films, and appeared frequently on television. She was among the pioneers of black ballet dancing, one of the few classically trained Black dancers of her generation. She was a vowed oblate of the Benedictine order.
Contemporaries
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