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The fundraising goal of this project on
KickStarter.com is $75,000. As of this
writing July 10, 2014, 517 Backers
have pledged $50,256, with 7 days
remaining.
The obituary of Janet Collins in
The New York Times was written by
Jennifer Dunning and published
May 31, 2003. Here is an excerpt::
"Janet Collins, prima ballerina of
the
Metropolitan Opera House in
the early 1950's and one of a very
few black
women to become
prominent in American classical
ballet, died on
Wednesday in Fort
Worth. She was 86 and lived there."
"Ms. Collins
taught dance,
choreographed, performed on
Broadway and in film and
appeared
frequently on television. But she
was best known as the
exquisitely
beautiful dancer who was the first
black artist to perform
at the
Metropolitan, four years before
Marian Anderson sang there."
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Thursday, July 10, 2014
Funds sought by Sweet Blackberry for 'animated short about Janet Collins, the first black ballerina to dance at the Metropolitan Opera'
at 9:54 PM
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