{"id":371312,"date":"2026-10-12T21:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T21:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/371312\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T21:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T21:06:12","slug":"special-production-pays-tribute-to-the-swans-of-harlem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/371312\/","title":{"rendered":"Special production pays tribute to &#8216;The Swans of Harlem&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Dance Theatre of Harlem is an internationally acclaimed ballet company, performing on stages around the world.<\/p>\n<p>But more than half a century ago, legendary dancer Arthur Mitchell founded the company with a mission to break racial barriers in classical ballet \u2014 and a group of pioneering Black ballerinas helped turn that vision into reality.<\/p>\n<p>Their remarkable story is told in the book \u201cThe Swans of Harlem.\u201d And this week, a special production and series of events at Manhattan\u2019s 14th Street Y will bring that history to life.<\/p>\n<p>One of those pioneering ballerinas, Sheila Rohan, joined NY1 to discuss.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today, Dance Theatre of Harlem is an internationally acclaimed ballet company, performing on stages around the world. But&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[25,128,9,24,12,63,7777,129,131,130,27,200,4181],"class_list":["post-371312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-app-top-stories","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-stephanie-simon","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-top-stories","tag-vod","tag-weekend-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}