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Claire Haywood
Claire Helen Haywood (1916 – September 23, ) was an American ballet dancer and teacher, called a “grand dame of Black dance in Washington”. With Doris W. Jones, she cofounded the Jones-Haywood School of Ballet in 1941 to give African American students the opportunity to study classical ballet. She also cofounded the Capitol Ballet Company and became its artistic director. Early life Claire Helen Haywood was born in 1916 in Atlanta, Georgia. She earned a BA from Spelman College in 1932 and an MA from Howard University in 1936. She also completed work toward a PhD at Catholic University of America. Career Haywood studied dance with Doris W. Jones and in 1940 persuaded Jones to move to Washington, D.C. In 1941, she and Jones founded what became the Jones-Haywood School of Ballet, initially occupying temporary wartime space, then moving to a clapboard house on Delafield Place, Northwest, with a house attached to the studio, which Jones and Haywood shared. Both women were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
