Karen Valby is the author of the book The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History. Karlya Shelton-Benjamin is one of the titular dancers. The book is also a history of the Dance Theatre of Harlem, which shifted the national narrative of who could be a ballerina.
Get the book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/716415/the-swans-of-harlem-by-karen-valby/
Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Karen-Valby-and-Karlya-Shelton-Benjamin-on-the-Black-ballerinas-of-Dance-Theatre-of-Harlem-transcript.pdf
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