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MORRISON-SHEARER FOUNDATION
TAIN BALFOUR, CAROL DOTY, TOBY NICHOLSON, ALIDA SZABO, MARY SUE WHEELER 

"What was really interesting was finding out... if I didn't do the routine, what

would I make?"        -Bebe Miller

How do we remember Sybil Shearer's works

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"If you were black, a certain Ailey trajectory, lineage was expected." 

-Ishmael Houston-Jones

Sybil's Style

"To get pulled into a kind of racial container for that seemed really interesting."

-Ralph Lemon

When Sybil moved, you watched

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