British Dance: Black Routes exhibition. Text of the exhibition panels

This exhibition explores the experiences of Black British dancers from 1946 to 2005 and highlights their contribution to British dance. There are a variety of different dance forms practised in Britain today such as jazz, contemporary, ballet, hip-hop and African Peoples Dance. Some of these have come to Britain along the many different routes taken by the families of today’s Black British citizens, many of whom came from the Caribbean in the late 1940s and 1950s.