{"id":191,"date":"2015-10-26T13:37:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T18:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tropigalia.net\/?p=191"},"modified":"2021-06-20T17:24:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T22:24:21","slug":"carmen-de-lavallade-geoffrey-holder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tropigalia.net\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Carmen de Lavallade &#038; Geoffrey Holder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/736x\/8f\/62\/3d\/8f623d557691a73b50b8807936636d67.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"736\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carmendelavallade.com\/\">Carmen de Lavallade<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/collection\/van\/\">Carl van Vechten<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bacnyc.org\/performances\/performance\/carmen-de-lavallade\">Carmen de Lavallade<\/a> has had an unparalleled career in dance, theater, film and television beginning in her hometown of Los Angeles performing with the Lester Horton Dance Theater\u2014the first multi-race dance troupe in the United States. She persuaded a neighborhood friend named Alvin Ailey to join her in studying with Horton. While in Los Angeles, Lena Horne introduced the then 17-year-old Ms. de Lavallade to filmmakers at 20th Century Fox, where she appeared in movies with Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">In her own words:<\/div>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/117324407\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/105291418\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Carmen, and her late husband, <a href=\"https:\/\/sweetleighsewn.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/07\/icon-geoffrey-holder\/\">Geoffrey Holder<\/a>&nbsp;(a magnificent dancer in his own right)&nbsp;have some really beautiful photos together. The photos capture a companionship well-lived and enjoyed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/736x\/51\/34\/9f\/51349f729a26c9a9f19251840de4701c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"387\" height=\"640\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/736x\/52\/4f\/dc\/524fdccf036b06c0677af7f4fd0ea3ea.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"640\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carmendelavallade.com\/\">Carmen de Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/collection\/van\/\">Carl van Vechten<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/736x\/f0\/f7\/63\/f0f7635b8584a5a83f4ca93e9d2a0503.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"792\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Photo retrieved <a href=\"http:\/\/mrmhadams.typepad.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/alvin-mceuwen-the-erasure-of-gay-from-black-history-the-black-community-must-stop-as-a-gay-african-american-ive-heard-the.html\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carmen de Lavallade by Carl van Vechten Carmen de Lavallade has had an unparalleled career in dance, theater, film and television beginning in her hometown of Los Angeles performing with the Lester Horton Dance Theater\u2014the first multi-race dance troupe in the United States. She persuaded a neighborhood friend named Alvin Ailey to join her in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-folk-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tropigalia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tropigalia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tropigalia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropigalia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropigalia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropigalia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropigalia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tropigalia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropigalia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropigalia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}