The artist, who died just short of her 100th birthday, subverted racist tropes by turning mammy dolls into warriors and presenting the breadth of the Black experience.
As the hit series keeps expanding, an ambitious stage adaptation of George R.R. Martin's prequel saga has found a natural home at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
The creator of Dance Constructions that borrowed from sculpture and performance, she was a deep influence in the early 1960s on ideas about what dance could be.