Pacific northwest ballet ashton edwards6/11/2023 ![]() In 2023 Rama continues to develop with the dance company Embodiment Project, on the organizational side, and as a dancer, with many exciting projects in the works for this year and beyond. Each year Rama travels to different parts of the world to gain inspiration in dance, connect with different cultures, and bring his experience back to teach his students in the Bay Area. Rama is a worldwide dance culture bearer, educator, and practitioner of street dance. Rama has performed across the U.S.A., including the Joyce Theater in NYC, the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon. One of Rama’s biggest highlights is competing at the Juste Debout Finals in Paris in front of 16,000 people, and placing Top 4 in House Dance Forever in August 2022 Rama has made a name for himself in the battle/competitive scene in the US and Europe, winning many competitions in places such as the Bay Area, NYC, DC, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö, and London. Rama studied dance at a Street Dance Academy in Sweden for 2 years.Īlong with his dance career, Rama has also worked for a non-profit that brought meditation to public schools in San Francisco for 13 years. Rama has taught House dance in the Bay Area and internationally for 10 years, and has also taught Hip-Hop to youth for 10 years. National Medal of Arts in 1995, was awarded a Fletcher Foundation fellowship in 2005, and received several honorary doctorates from universities including Juilliard School, Harvard University, Yale University, and Columbia University ( The History Makers, 2016). Over the span of his career, Mitchell was recognized as a MacArthur Fellow, received the U.S. The Dance Theatre of Harlem opened in 1969 with 30 children enrolled ( Dance Theatre of Harlem, n.d.) A year later, he and his teacher, Karel Shook, inaugurated a classical ballet school. ![]() in 1968, Mitchell returned to Harlem, where he was determined to provide opportunities in dance for the children in that community. While Mitchell danced the role with several white partners around the world, he was not allowed to perform on commercial television in the United States until 1968 when the performance aired on Johnny Carson’s The Tonight Show ( The Ballet Encyclopedia n.d. Despite audience members complaining about the biracial pairing, Balanchine refused to change the pairing. George Balanchine created a pas de deux in Agon specifically for Mitchell and Diana Adams, a white ballet dancer. He danced in major ballets such as A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Nutcracker. Mitchell joined the New York City Ballet in 1955 and was promoted to principal dancer the following year, dancing in major roles until 1966. After graduating from the High School of Performing Arts in the early 1950s, Mitchell won a dance award and a scholarship to study at the School of American Ballet ( NYT, 2018). ![]()
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