Robert Garland was a principal dancer with the Dance Theatre of Harlem

Dance Theatre of Harlem

Dance Theatre of Harlem is a ballet company and school of the allied arts founded in Harlem, New York City, USA in 1969 by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook...

, which he joined in 1985, and their first official resident choreographer, making dances for their School Ensemble, for the "A Demand Performance" benefit, for the DTH "Dancing Through Barriers" Ensemble, and for New York City Ballet

New York City Ballet

New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Leon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company...

: Tributary

Tributary (ballet)

Tributary is a ballet made by Robert La Fosse and Robert Garland to Mozart's Divertimento No. 11 in D, K. 251 . The premiere took place on Thursday, May 25th, 2000, as part of New York City Ballet's Diamond Project at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center.- Original cast : *Kyra...

, which he co-choreographed with NYCB's Robert La Fosse.

External links

• NYCB website
• Pennsylvania Ballet website
• Dance Theatre of Harlem website
• http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9904E4DB1031F934A3575AC0A961958260NY Times review by Jennifer Dunning
  Jennifer Dunning
  Jennifer Dunning is a writer and critic for the New York Times on the subjects of dance and ballet. She is the author of the 1985 But First a School: The First Fifty Years of the School of American Ballet, the 1996 Alvin Ailey, a Life in Dance and the 1997 Great Performances: A...
  
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• Critical Dance article by Thea Nerissa Barnes, September, 2003