TheaBarnesLegacyFund

The Thea Barnes Legacy Fund is a fund launched on 12 August 2019 to support individuals in creative areas that reflect Thea’s interest in arts and academia.

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Save the date! Applications for this round of the Thea Barnes Legacy Fund will open July 1st. The fund is open to individuals in dance and the performing arts, researchers and choreographic artists. Full guidelines to follow!

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Najwa Dance Corps at Navy Pier https://t.co/6mpIsxfQTi

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Najwa Dance Corps invited you to celebrate all that is our culture as we share with all cultures! https://t.co/WubCSWxOlN

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Who knew!! Her story. Learn about the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, also known as the “Six Triple Eight.”

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To express yourself needs a reason,
but expressing yourself is the reason.

-Ai Weiwei
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#dancerfundraiser #balletdancer
#artsmatter #supportthearts #pointepeople #BalletBlack

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Relentlessness and determination will take you far. TBLF supports all artists that are running to the finish line and we will help you with that “shoe.”
We applaud this will to succeed young spirit. Always keep moving forward!
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Thought for the day:
Sometimes we all forget that rest is restorative.

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“The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off, it's with you all the time.” Alvin Ailey
Ailey was mentored by Horton. TBLF believes in and provides mentors to all awardees
#Mentoring #dancer #singers #actors #theatre #BalletDancer

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Salome Bey was an award-winning jazz, blues and R&B singer. Known as “Canada's First Lady of the Blues,”
#salomebey #jazz #singer #performer
#artsmatter #supportthearts #soloist #pointepeople #BalletBlack #amazingdancers

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Trailblazing Legacies @PawletBrookes @SerendipityInfo @Jeanefer1 @IgbokweVicki @BBCOne @onedanceuk @acedancemusic @StellaKanuWORDS @IRIEdance @VOCABDANCE @PatrickAcogny @adesolaa @KeneIgweonu @KenrickH2o @NorthernSchool @BarbicanCentre @KennethTharp @Akaraaka @funmiadewoleA

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"Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Thea required discipline from all artists. TBLF helps all disciplined artists to move forward.

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Germaine Acogny
“We don't want to subjugate, to infer black dance. We only want it to impose itself by its own character in modern civilization and to take its rightful place.”
Don’t know who she is? Follow the link. Be inspired by this artistic force!

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Venetia Stifler of Ruth Page Foundation said "Larry ..got a sense of what (students) needed and taught the class to help them gain that which was missing.”
Thea Barnes trained with Larry Long. She gave what was needed by all in front of her. TBLF supports all artists to train.

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Eleanor Roosevelt wrote "My Day," a newspaper column that addressed women's equality before there was a word for "feminism.” She was also a supporter of equal rights for all and helped Tuskegee secure a loan from the Rosenwald Fund to build an airfield.
The fight goes on. #tblf

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bell hooks https://t.co/fIeOKLLKmN was committed to education and to women’s rights.
Link to a short clip of what she encountered when she took the initial steps toward a center.

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The struggle continues
#bellhooks #education #WomensRights #TBLF

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Thea talked about Yuriko with respect and awe. Anyone who knew Thea knows that was a feat. Yuriko taught “ to the point.” Judging by Thea’s stories this is an accurate description. TBLF salutes and mourns the loss of this spirit and expresses our condolences to her family.#Yuriko

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Florence Beatrice Price was an African-American classical composer, pianist, organist, and
music teacher, educated at the New England Conservatory of Music. Her “Symphony No. 1 in E
Minor: III., Juba Dance,” celebrates African American culture.#music
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For Black History Month, in recent years, my public Dance Education students have performed my tribute to Ailey's "I've Been Buked." Students learn discipline and what this work has meant to the world for decades.#singers #BlackHistoryMonth #BLACKARTIST #dancerfund #TBFL

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Arthur Mitchell believed in educating and guiding emerging dance artists.
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Support is crucial to the development of any artist.
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Pearl Primus brought the history and struggles of African Americans into the public eye. Strange Fruits” is an example. Follow the link to view this pivotal work. Primus understood the relationship between research, academics, and the performing arts.#TBFL
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