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THE RECENT Queer Art exhibition at Tate Britain in London pays a much-needed tribute to Jamaican dancer and choreographer Berto Pasuka, who founded Les Ballet Negres in 1946. Not only the first company in Britain to be composed of black dancers, it was also the first to offer what fellow dancer Richie Riley later described as “in every shape and form, ballet in a black idiom.”
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