An interview with documentarian Kamilah Thurmon about her 2024 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grant project, Evolution of Blacks in Ballet in Washington D.C., and project-based film, Making Their Pointe. The interview discusses the importance of her project and the community of ballet dancers in the Washington, DC region whom she documented. Thurmon also discusses her film, Making Their Pointe, screened at the National Museum of African American History and Culture on Saturday, March 21, 2026.