DANCE
Dance Companies
Baltimore Dance Theater
Fred Benjamin Dance Company
Otis Sallid's New Art Ensemble
Nanette Bearden's Contemporary Dance Theater
Hudson Repertory Ballet
Synergy Dance Ensemble
Joan Miller's Dance Players
Bruce danced in six New York based Black dance companies and traveled and taught dance all over the world, working personally with renowned choreographers and instructors such as Louis Johnson, Fred Benjamin, Talley Beatty, Katherine Dunham, Rick Odums, Gary DeLoatch, Frank Hatchett, Romare and Nanette Bearden, Otis Sallid, Bernard Johnson, Joel Harrison, Lynn Simonson, Roumel Reaux, Maria Broom, Finis Jhung, George Faison, Debbie Allen and Keith Young. His international dance travels took him to Africa, Japan, Europe, Alaska, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom and throughout the continental United States.
Before he retired from dancing full time 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 dance internationally in private dance studios, in colleges and universities 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.
"Desert Hush", choreographed by Fred Benjamin for the Nannette Bearden Contemporary Chamber Dance Group. Photo by Marc Raboy.
Teaching dance in Montpellier, France. Photo by Richard Brutton
"Isn't It A Shame", duet with Marilyn Banks, choreographed by Fred Benjamin for the Fred Benjamin Dance Company. Photo by Milton Oleaga.
"Time" section of "A and S", choreographed by Rick Odums for the Nannette Bearden Comtemporary Chamber Dance Group. Photograph by Roy Blakey.
"For Stan", with Aisha Coley and Chiquita Ross, choreographed by Rick Odums for the Nanette Bearden Contemporary Chamber Dance Group. Photograph by Roy Blakey.
"Prey" with Alfred Gallman, Damon Pearce, Mark Rubin and Gregory Hinton, choreographed by Fred Benjamin for the Fred Benjamin Dance Company. Photograph by Roy Blakey.
"Moses, the Law Giver" with Cheryl Norvell, choreographed by Rick Odums for the Nanette Bearden Contemporary Chamber Dance Group. Photography by Roy Blakey.
"Ember" with Fred Benjamin, choreographed by Winston DeWitt Hemsley for the Fred Benjamin Dance Company. Photo by Milton Oleaga.
"Waited Too Long" section of the ballet, "A and S", choreographed by Rick Odums for the Nanette Bearden Contemporary Chamber Dance Group. Photograph by Roy Blakey.