Harlem Dance Theatre in financial trouble

By ROBIN POGREBIN from the New York Times
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
June 14, 2004

Dance Theatre has struggled to remain solvent for three months. The company is about to hire its first executive director to try to restore financial stability, but no one has been named yet.

A Match for a Strong-Willed Dance Legend

by LYNDA RICHARDSON
the New York Times

One wonders whether Arthur Mitchell, the theater's founding artistic director, with a reputation for keeping a tight rein on the organization, will loosen his grip enough to allow Mr. Naidu, the former director of the company's dance school, to really call the administrative shots.

Catherine Reynolds to Lead Dance Theater of Harlem
by FELICIA R. LEE for the New York Times

... the philanthropist and business executive Catherine B. Reynolds would become its new chairwoman and that her foundation was pledging a gift of $1 million.

Published: April 7, 2005

A Dance Diaspora
by SYLVIANE GOLD for the New York Times

When Mehdi Bahiri learned that Dance Theater of Harlem was laying off its dancers last year, he said, "I jumped." He snapped up a group of them for the 14-member Fugate/Bahiri Ballet NY, which opens a week's run at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday. It's not just his high regard for their skills as dancers, he said, "It's practical. They're in New York." Other companies have not been quite as expansively welcoming, but most, if not all, of the Harlem troupe's 44 members have landed on their feet (so to speak):...

published: July 3, 2005