Moving Over: A Powerhouse of Black Dance Is Retiring (Mostly)

Joan Myers Brown at a class at Philadanco, the company she founded, in late July. “I chose to teach because I didn’t get the opportunities I wanted,” she said.Credit…Marcus Maddox for The New York Times

Rushing to our Zoom interview from an in-person audition at the Philadanco studios, Joan Myers Brown opened the conversation by making me laugh. She asked for a reminder of what we were doing and then said, “What an honor, you want to talk about me — only thing I usually talk about is Philadanco.”