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Going Places: An Evening’s Entertainment, presented by the Boy Scouts of America 157, Brooklyn, and the O.F.S. Society, Thomas Jefferson High School, Brooklyn, New York City, March 16, 1951. Mitchell appears in several numbers, including Orientale, Cuban Episode, and Dancing Boys, and is one of the evening’s three choreographers.

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Workshop Program of Dance Department, School of Performing Arts, Division Metropolitan Vocational High School, New York City June 6-8, 1951. Mitchell appears in Shirley Broughton’s Introduction and Quartet; Natanya Neuman’s Lyric Suite; and Jazz 5/4, performed by Betty J. Walberg’s rhythm analysis class.

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Greater New York Committee for State of Israel Bonds presents Purim Festival : CoverClick here for item information
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Program, Purim Festival, Madison Square Garden, New York City, March 17, 1952.  The 1952 edition of the Purim Festival and Pageant was sponsored by the Greater New York Committee for State of Israel Bonds and choreographed by Anna Sokolow.  The dancers included Dorothy Bird, who mimed the role of Queen Esther, and an ensemble of fourteen, including “Arthur Michell, Jr.”

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Program, Four Saints in Three Acts, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris, May 31-June 5, 1952. After an initial run at the Broadway Theatre in New York City, this revival of the 1934 Virgil Thomson-Gertrude Stein all-black opera opened in Paris during the CIA-sponsored festival Masterpieces of the 20th Century.  Starring Leontyne Price, the revival was choreographed by William Dollar and had six dancing “angels”—Billie Allen, Robert Curtis, Carolyn Jorrin, Louis Johnson, Arthur Mitchell, and Helen Taitt.

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Dance Concert: Robin Gregory, Bruce King, Tom Ribbink, Ethel Winter : CoverClick here for item information

Announcement, Dance Concert: Robin Gregory, Bruce King, Ethel Winter, Henry Street Playhouse, January 31, 1954.  Mitchell and Matt Turney, a member of the Martha Graham company, headed the cast of “assisting artists.”  Both were African Americans.

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Playbill, Donald McKayle and Company, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York City, February 17, 954.

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Guy Lombardo presents Lauritz Melchior in Arabian Nights : CoverClick here for item information
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Program, Arabian Nights, presented by Guy Lombardo, Jones Beach Theatre, Wantagh, New York, Summer 1954.  “A New Musical Extravaganza,” “Arabian Nights” had choreography by Yurek Lazowski, dances “devised by The Ballet Theatre with Mia Slavenska,” and a “disappearing water ballet.”  Mitchell was a member of the “dancing ensemble.”

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Souvenir program, House of Flowers, 1954.  Signed by several members of the cast, including Diahann Carroll and Juanita Hall, two of the featured players, and the dancers Carmen de Lavallade, Glory Van Scott, Donald McKayle, Louis Johnson, Albert Popwell, and Alvin Ailey.

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Program for New York City Ballet, City Center, November 8-11, 1955. Arthur Mitchell made his NYCB debut on November 8 in the Rondo of Western Symphony, opposite Tanaquil Le Clercq. On November 10 he danced in Balanchine's Firebird, and on November 11, in Frederick Ashton's Picnic at Tintagel.

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Playbill, Shinbone Alley, Broadway Theatre, New York City, week beginning May 20, 1957.  Based on the “Archie and Mehitabel” stories by Don Marquis and starring Eartha Kitt and Eddie Bracken, the show was partly choreographed by Arthur Mitchell.  His New York City Ballet colleagues Allegra Kent and Jacques d’Amboise were among the featured players.

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Souvenir program, New American Ballets, Terzo Festival dei due mondi, Teatro Nuovo, Spoleto, June 10-July 3, 1960.  The choreographers assembled for the festival were Donald McKayle, Herbert Ross, Karel Shook, and Paul Taylor.  The dancers (in alphabetical order, as in the program) were Pina Bausch, Mary Hinkson, Akiko Kanda, Ralph Linn, William Louther, Donald McKayle, Arthur Mitchell, Robert Powell, Mable Robinson, Kathleen Stanford, Paul Taylor, Dan Wagoner, and Dudley Williams.  The repertory included Entrance (Shook), Games (McKayle), Meridian (Taylor), Rainbow 'Round my Shoulder (McKayle), and Toccata for Percussion (Ross).  Mitchell appeared in Entrance, Rainbow, and Toccata.

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