Endalyn T. Outlaw (née Taylor)
Endalyn T. Outlaw (née Taylor), dancer, choreographer, and educator, is the dean of the School of dance at UNCSA. She has held the positions of
director of Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH) School in New York — a company she joined in 1984, becoming a principal dancer in 1993 — and director
of the Cambridge Summer Art Institute in Massachusetts. Her extensive administrative, artistic and academic career is steeped in ballet pedagogy and
she has created an eclectic body of choreographic works. Outlaw excels at restaging ballets, having performed many of the classics and having
worked with luminaries in the field including DTH founder Arthur Mitchell, British-American ballet dancer and choreographer Frederick Franklin,
director and choreographer of LINES Ballet Alonzo King, American dancer and choreographer Agnes de Mille, and director and choreographer of
Garth Fagan Dance and “The Lion King,” Garth Fagan. She has performed on Broadway and stages all over the world, including an original cast
member of Tony Award-winning Broadway productions of “The Lion King,” “Aida,” and “Carousel.” Prior to joining UNCSA, she served six years at
the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where she taught ballet and musical theater as an associate professor of Dance. In 2020 she was
appointed the Dean’s Fellow for Black Arts Research.
Counterpoint Project: In 2018, Patrick Earl Hammie and Endalyn T. Outlaw debuted Counterpoint Project
at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City. This project built on their public
conversation on disciplinary mastery, and provided space for them to partner with six cross-generational
ballerinas, a clothing designer, a documentarian, and MoBBallet to develop artwork, performances, a
panel discussion, and a web archive that honors the ongoing contributions of Black dancers and artists,
and inspires the curiosity in and routes for young people in their creative pursuits. Post-pandemic, they
plan to travel the project to London and Brazil.