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Alphabetical Listing of Dances

NOTE:  Dances listed with an asterisk (*) are available for re-staging

2003      A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME for Bernard Gaddis (Opera Noir Juneteenth Gala) (Solo/Duet)
1976      ALBUM LEAVES   
2013      *ANCESTRAL FLIGHT
1972      *ANGELITOS NEGROS (SONGS OF THE DISINHERITED)  (Solo)
1987      APSARAS          
1963      ARENA   
1977      ARGOT                      
 2002      *ASH        
1984      AVATAR   
1971      BARRIO  
2005      BEAT BEATIFIC: AN ERA REVISITED                                                                                           
1986      BENEATH THE BAOBAB  
2016      *BITTERSWEET FAREWELL                                                                                                              
1967      BLACK NEW WORLD                                                                                                                          
2006      BLACK PIERROT for Preston Dugger III (Opera Noir Juneteenth Gala) (Solo/Duet)
1976      BLOOD MEMORIES                                                                                                                             
1994      *BLOOD MEMORIES (recreation)                                                                                                      
1963      BLOOD OF THE LAMB                                                                                                                        
1966      BURST OF FISTS     
1999      CHILDREN OF THE PASSAGE (w/Ronald K. Brown)                                                                 
1983      COLLAGE  
2011      CONTINENTS OF HUMANITY (Part I)                                                                                            
2012      CONTINENTS OF HUMANITY (Part II)                                                                                           
1950      CREOLE AFTERNOON, for Jacqueline Hairston and Donald McKayle (Duet)
2001      CROSS ROADS 
1964      CROSSTOWN 
1999      DANGER RUN     
1964      DAUGHTERS OF THE GARDEN                                                                                                        
2000      *DEATH AND EROS    
1998      DELICIOUS OBSESSION/SWEET BONDAGE                                                                               
2001      DIALOGUES IN JAZZ                                                                                                                           
1990      DISTANT DRUM                                                                                                                                   
1962      *DISTRICT STORYVILLE         
2006      *DOWN WHERE I AM (Solo)                                                                                                            
2005      ELLA: A Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald     
2014      "EVEN AS THE RIVER AND THE SEA"                                                                                             
1950      EXODUS for Donald McKayle (Solo/Duet)
2010      FAR EAST of the BLUES                                                                                                                     
1953      FOUR EXCURSIONS 
1951      *GAMES
1994      GUMBO YA-YA                                                                                                                                     
1997      HEARTBEATS                                                                                                            
1992      *HOUSE OF TEARS
 2005      *I’VE KNOWN RIVERS for Stephanie Powell (Solo)
1997      IN THE DEEP DREAMING OF MY HANDS for Lea Vivante and Achmed Valk (/Duet)
1965      INCANTATION                                                                                                                                      
1991      INFINITE JOURNEY                                                                                                                             
2000      JAMNATION 
1963      LEGENDARY LANDSCAPE       
1994      *LEVEE BLUES (Solo)                                                                                                         
1985      LOOKING FOR JERUSALEM                                                                                                             
1999      MARDI GRAS   
2004      *MIDNIGHT DANCER                                                                                                                           
1972      MIGRATIONS
2006      *MINSTREL MAN (Solo)
1977      MOUNTAIN OF SPICES                                                                                                                      
1957      MUSE IN THE MEWS                                                                                                                           
2004      MUSTT MUSTT
1993      MYSTERIES AND RAPTURES                                                                                                          
1952      *NOCTURNE    
2009      NOIR 
1960      ONE, TWO, THREE, FOLLOW ME                                                                                                     
1958      OUT OF THE CHRYSALIS                                                                                                                  
2007      PERSONAL
2004      POSIE for Melanie Richards (Solo/Duet)
1954      PRELUDE TO ACTION                                                                                                                         
1996      *RAINBOW ETUDE for The American Dance Legacy Institute (Solo/Duet)
1959      *RAINBOW ROUND MY SHOULDER                                                                                               
1976      RECUERDOS for Lea Vivante (Solo/Duet)
1964      REFLECTIONS IN THE PARK                                                                                                            
2006      *REMEMBERED JOURNEY                                                                                                                 
2008      REVERIE for Stephanie Powell (Solo/Duet)
1982      RICOCHET
1990      RINGALEVIO                                                                                                                                         
1993      RING-A-LEVIO  
2009      SANCTUARY  (with Caleb Mitchell)                                                         
1948      *SATURDAY'S CHILD for Donald McKayle (Solo)
2006      SHADES OF LOVE      
2008      SINUOUS TATTOO
2005      SKY - CLOUDS - then ISRAEL                                                                                                          
1971      SOJOURN     
1983      SOLARIS 
1991      *SOMBRA Y SOL (IMAGES OF FRIDA KAHLO)                                                                           
1972      *SONGS OF THE DISINHERITED                                                                                                       
1950      SONGS OF THE FOREST for Donald McKayle (Solo/Duet)
1969      SOULFUL STRUT for Diana Ross (Solo/Duet)
1998      SUPPLICATION for Michele Simmons (Solo/Duet)
2007      SYNCOPATED GAMBOL                                                                                                                    
1960      SYRINX, (Legendary Landscape) for Mabel Robinson and Robert Powell (Solo/Duet)
2004      THE RIVER - (Meander, Village Virgins)                                                                                       
1954      THE STREET     
1952      *THEY CALLED HER MOSES (originally titled HER NAME WAS HARRIET)                                                                                                              
2012      THREE EPITAPHS after COUNTEE CULLEN   
2006      *TO ARTINA (Duet)                                                                              
1987      TWILIGHT, for Gregg Lizenbery (Solo/Duet)
1972      *UPON THE MOUNTAIN (SONGS OF THE DISINHERITED) (Solo/Duet)
2015      *UPROOTED PERO REPLANTADO
1984      VEVER  
1994      VIGILS  
2002      VOW   
1995      WHEN I GROW UP - WHEN I WAS A CHILD                                                                                 
1965      WILDERNESS    
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