Dancing with Purpose

When Darlene Leysath Robinson (SFS’87) and Valerie Settles McDowell (B’87) were students, they noticed a void in Black representation and activities engaging Black students at Georgetown University, they founded a student group called Black Movements Dance Theatre (BMDT). Under the founding principle of expressing the Black experience through artistic expression, BMDT thrived.

Now a performance course led by the company’s Artistic Director, Alfreda Davis, BMDT is a pre-professional dance theater committed to telling stories illuminating the multilayered history of Black people. Read the full article here.