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Date of Birth
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27-March-1934
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Place of Birth
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New York City
(New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Profession
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Choreographer, Actor, Film Producer, Ballet Dancer
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Arthur Mitchell is an African-American dancer and choreographer who created a training school and the first African-American classical ballet company, Dance Theatre of Harlem. Among other awards, Mitchell has been recognized as a MacArthur Fellow, inducted into the National Museum of Dance's Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame, and has received the United States National Medal of Arts and a Fletcher Foundation fellowship.
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