Bruce Hawkins A BIOGRAPHY OF Bruce Hawkins - A Theater Arts Honors graduate of Morgan State College, Bruce received the AUDELCO Black Theater Achievement Award for Outstanding Male Musical Theater Performance for his song and dance work in the New Federal Theater production of Melvin Van Peebles' musical play about Bessie Smith, "The Champeen' ". He was also featured in "Golden Boy" at the Billie Holiday Theater, toured the US with Cab Calloway in his "Cotton Club Revue" and played the Scarecrow in the touring company of "The Wiz". Bruce danced in six New York based Black dance companies and traveled and taught dance working personally with many renowned choreographers and instructors. His international dance travels took him to Africa, Japan, Europe, Alaska, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom. Before he retired from dancing in 1995, Bruce eventually ended up teaching for several years on the professional dance faculty of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. He has also taught ballet, modern and jazz dance internationally and has graced the staff as an adjunct professor of dance and guest artist at SUNY Purchase, New York University, Adelphi University, Lehman College for the Performing Arts and The University of Washington.
Bruce continues to work as an actor/model and published book author primarily in New York and sometimes, Los Angeles. He attributes his career in the theater to the nurturing and training he received as a student and dancer at Clark Center for the Performing Arts.
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Bruce continues to work as an actor/model and published book author primarily in New York and sometimes, Los Angeles. He attributes his career in the theater to the nurturing and training he received as a student and dancer at Clark Center for the Performing Arts.
Read more about Mr. Hawkins here and here
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