Carmen de Lavallade is an American actress, dancer and choreographer. In 2004, de Lavallade received the Black History Month Lifetime Achievement Award, and December 2017 she received the Kennedy Center Honors Award. She is the cousin of ballet dancer Janet Collins. Poster advertising a performance of Carmen De Lavallade at the Back Bay Theatre in Boston, with a photograph of Lavallade in costume in a dance pose. Caption: 1967 Season. Written on back of photo: Carmen De Lavalle?
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African American women dancers African American choreographers African American actresses Back Bay Theatre (Boston, Ma.) De Lavallade, Carmen, 1931-
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