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Mr. Davis teaching a master class at Herbert H. Lehman High School in the Bronx in 2003.
Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times; thumbnail, Julieta Cervantes, 2007
Chuck Davis
Died on May 14, 2017 at age 80
Mr. Davis was a dancer and choreographer widely regarded as America’s foremost master of African dance and renowned as the founder and longtime artistic director of DanceAfrica, a festival held each Memorial Day weekend at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.