Donal McKayle, one of the first choreographers to weave the African-American experience into the fabric of modern dance and the first black man to direct and choreograph a Broadway musical (“Raisin”), died on Friday at a hospital near his home in Irvine, Calif. He was 87.
His
wife, Lea Vivante McKayle, confirmed the death. He was a professor of
dance at the University of California, Irvine, for almost 30 years.
Mr.
McKayle had been working on Broadway for more than two decades when he
achieved his triumph with “Raisin,” a musical based on “A Raisin in the
Sun,” Lorraine Hansberry’s classic drama about a black family struggling
with loss, change and identity in midcentury Chicago.
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