I am proud to call Karl Singletary uncle (Bird) this is a nick name my grandfather gave him because as a little boy he wanted to fly. My grandparents didn't approve of Karl dancing, so he left home at a very young age, he danced ballet in Europe and across the USA as a young man after training for decades under the world’s greatest Russian classicists. According to PAUL A. BARRA Karl Singletary was the first African American to receive a scholarship to the American Ballet Theater in Manhattan. That was in 1967. By 1971, Singletary had given up the stage for teaching. Also He is founded of Buffalo Inner City Ballet Company in western New York State. It was immediately successful and
I am proud to call Karl Singletary uncle (Bird) this is a nick name my grandfather gave him because as a little boy he wanted to fly. My grandparents didn't approve of Karl dancing, so he left home at a very young age, he danced ballet in Europe and across the USA as a young man after training for decades under the world’s greatest Russian classicists. According to PAUL A. BARRA Karl Singletary was the first African American to receive a scholarship to the American Ballet Theater in Manhattan. That was in 1967. By 1971, Singletary had given up the stage for teaching. Also He is founded of Buffalo Inner City Ballet Company in western New York State. It was immediately successful and