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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Carmen De Lavallade
Carmen De Lavallade
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| Other authors / contributors: | De Lavallade, Carmen, 1931- interviewee.
Wilson, Shawn, interviewer.
Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
Shawn Wilson, interviewer.
Recorded New York, New York 2006 December 12.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Choreographer, dancer, and actress Carmen De Lavallade was born on March 6, 1931. Upon graduation from Thomas Jefferson High School, De Lavallade was awarded a scholarship to study dance with Lester Horton. She became the lead dancer for the Lester Horton Dance Theater from 1950 to 1954. She made her Broadway debut in House of Flowers and danced as prima ballerina for the Metropolitan Opera performances of Samson and Delilah, and Aida. In 1956, she made her television debut in John Butler's ballet Flight. In 1957, appeared in the television production of Duke Ellington's A Drum is a Woman. She acted in several films including Carmen Jones with Dorothy Dandridge, and Odds Against Tomorrow with Harry Belafonte. De Lavallade joined the Yale School of Drama as a choreographer and performer-in-residence and later became a professor and a member of the Yale Repertory Theater. She was married to Geoffrey Holder.
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