History Exhibition
History ExhibitionStep into the archives where movement becomes history. This outdoor exhibition brings rare mid-20th-century photographs of Black dance pioneers — Pearl Primus, Geoffrey Holder, Carmen De Lavallade — out of the Schomburg Center's vaults and into the Harlem air, celebrating diasporic dance traditions from ballet to Caribbean rhythms.
Black dance history
mid-century photography
diasporic culture
archive exhibition
Tips
📚more photos available with NYPL card + research appointment
🌳exhibition scattered throughout the park — explore while you stroll
🏊pool, bandshell, and basketball nearby — make a day of it
POSE: Black Dance Photography from the mid-20th Century
Sugar Hill
History ExhibitionHistory ExhibitionStep into the archives where movement becomes history. This outdoor exhibition brings rare mid-20th-century photographs of Black dance pioneers — Pearl Primus, Geoffrey Holder, Carmen De Lavallade — out of the Schomburg Center's vaults and into the Harlem air, celebrating diasporic dance traditions from ballet to Caribbean rhythms.
Black dance history
mid-century photography
diasporic culture
archive exhibition
Tips
📚more photos available with NYPL card + research appointment
🌳exhibition scattered throughout the park — explore while you stroll
🏊pool, bandshell, and basketball nearby — make a day of it
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