Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center Presents its 48th Annual June Dance Festival

“Color Pointes” – June 21-23
Performances Take Place on Three Evenings at The Mark O’Donnell Theater at the Entertainment Community Fund Arts Center, 160 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn

NEW YORK, NY – Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center (THPAC) will present its 48^th annual June Dance Festival – “Color Pointes” – on June 21, 22 and 23 in The Mark O’Donnell Theater at the Entertainment Community Fund Arts Center at 160 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn. Building on THPAC’s mission over nearly a half century, “Color Pointes” will feature contemporary and classical ballet companies and choreographers of color. Tickets prices start at $17.85 and are available online at thelmahill.org/events.

“In the recent past, ballet has broken new ground with fresh choreographic visions bursting forth,” said THPAC Executive Chairman Alex Smith, Jr. “In recognition of this positive phenomenon, we will devote an entire season to ballet for the first time in our presenting history.” Smith said he conceived of the program during THPAC’s 46^thSeason, when Dylan Santos presented two classical ballet works that featured a large contingent of dancers from Dance Theater of Harlem. Presented this season will be works by choreographers Ron Alexander, Hassan Blandford, Cortney Taylor Key, Christopher Charles McDaniel, Walter Rutledge and Ted Thomas.
 
Performances will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available at the box office on the day of the performance. Advance sale tickets will be available on Eventbrite beginning Tuesday, May 7.
 
About Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center:
The Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center (THPAC) was founded in 1976 by Larry Phillips with a mission to support the creativity of choreographers and dance companies of color, and to present and preserve their work. Phillips began working as a dance therapist at a Brooklyn community center that sponsored children's education and support programs for single parents attending New York Technical College; those programs were the forerunner of THPAC. In 1977, he renamed the organization after his renowned teacher, the late Thelma Hill, who remains a powerful influence in the international dance world. 

THPAC attracts established and emerging dance artists of color who seek the organization’s experimental and historically aware environment, providing them with a major forum to explore and share their art with diverse communities. It supports those who have celebrated and reflected on social and cultural issues through the rituals of music, dance, literature, and performance. THPAC continues to assist in launching the careers of choreographers and dancers who go on to receive international acclaim, and introduce generations of audiences to new dance creations and artists.
 
Among the artists THPAC has presented are Baba Chuck Davis, Kevin Jeff, Adel Salaam, Fred Benjamin, Al Perryman, Eleo Pomare, Maurice Hines, Clive Thompson, Garth Fagan, Dance Theater of Harlem Workshop Ensemble, Alvin Ailey American Dance Center Workshop, Ron K. Brown, Urban Bush Women, Marlies Yearby, Gary DeLoatch, Dwight Rhoden, Homer Avila/Edisa Weeks, Reggie Wilson, Virginia Johnson, Rennie Harris, Camille A. Brown, and Kyle Abraham.

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