NY Times Hails Latasha Barnes as a "Breakout Star"
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The inimitable, multi-genre dancer LaTasha Barnes was recently featured as a "breakout star" in the New York Times. Because of course she was.
From the piece:
“LaTasha Barnes — a leader in the dance forms of house, hip-hop and the Lindy Hop — bridged worlds this year. Barnes is “a connector, or a rather a re-connector,” Brian Seibert wrote in the Times. In particular, she works to reconnect Black audiences and Black dancers (like herself) to their jazz heritage. To watch her dance, Seibert said, “is to watch historical distance collapse.””
Congrats, LaTasha!
Check out this recent conversation LaTasha had with Jacob’s Pillow scholar-in-residence Melanie George on the history of jazz dance.
Oh and NPR has a neat interview with her that you can listen to here.
