Who is Karl Singletary?

Answer 1

Karl Singletary has received numerous honors in classical worldwide.

He has studied classical ballet in Berlin, Paris, London, and

Australia. In 1967 he became the first African American

ballet dancer to receive a scholarship to the American

Ballet Theater in New York.

In 1971, Singletary founded the Buffalo Inner City Ballet Company. He has taught throughout the United States at various dance companies and performing art academies. He is recognized as a knowledgeable consultant in the Russian Ballet Vaganova Syllabus. In 1991, Singletary shared his Russian knowledge with the Australian dancers by teaching at a prestigious ballet camp in Perth.

Each year Singletary travels to Brazil to teach ballet at FIDA, the Festival Internacional D' Amazonia. While living in Buffalo, Mr. Singletary

became a lifelong supporter of the Missionary Sisters of our Lady of Mercy. Every summer for two months, he teaches ballet classes to the underserved youth served by this order in Brazil. For the past two years, he has invited Ms. Susana Prieto and Mr. Pedro Acosta, of Ballet Etudes of South Florida, Inc. to accompany him to FIDA and the mission's ballet classes as guest teachers and choreographer.

He now serves as a long term artist-in-residence with the AIE Grant Program

through the South Carolina Arts Commission and Florence County School District Three. Mr. Singletary travels through the more rural parts of South Carolina teaching ballet to elementary and middle school students in his home state.