Donald Bradburn

Donald Bradburn is a dance photographer, dancer, and choreographer. As one of the leading dance photographers in Southern California, he has published over 350 photographs in Dance Magazine and has served as the magazine’s Southern California correspondent. In 2001, his work…

Irene Borger

Irene Borger earned her M.A. in Dance Ethnology at University of California, Los Angeles and now works as a writer and dance ethnologist in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, and Vanity Fair. She was artist-in-residence at AIDS…

Tamara Karsavina as the Firebird and Adolph Bolm as Ivan Tsarevich in 'L'Oiseau de Feu' (The Firebird) by Bassano vintage proof print, 27 June 1912. Housed at the National Portrait Gallery.

Adolph Bolm

Adolph Bolm (1884-1951) was born in St. Petersburg, Russia where he studied at the Russian Imperial Ballet School. In 1904, he graduated and joined the Maryinsky Ballet Theatre where he partnered with Pavlova. In 1909 he joined Diagalev for the first…

Christine Bolingbroke

Christine Bolingbroke earned a BA in Dance from the University of California, Los Angeles and is a graduate of the DeVos Institute for Arts Management Fellowship program at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC….

Rebecca Bobele

Rebecca Bobele (1946-1995) was a dancer with the Bella Lewitzky Company and Loretta Livingston & Dancers. She was a teacher at Cal Arts. Mingus Moves, Cal Arts Dance Ensemble 1988 Minugs Moves was choreographed by Cristyne Lawson in 1988 for faculty members Rebecca Bobele…

Benita Bike

Benita Bike

I began dancing in the 1950’s in Tucson, Arizona, studying with Frances Smith Cohen (Graham) and later Stephanie Stigers (ballet). I studied two summers with Utah Repertory Theatre (Bill Evans, Joan Moon, Greg Lizenberry), at Bennington College (Linda Tarnay, Jack…

Katja Biesanz

Martin Bernheimer

Martin Bernheimer is an award winning music and dance critic. He began his career writing for major publications in New York including New York Herald Tribune, Saturday Review, and the New York Post. In 1965 he relocated to Los Angeles where he served…

Fanchon Shur Bennett

Fanchon Shur is a movement analyst and therapist, choreographer, poet, and energy healer. She is a certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst, registered Movement Therapist and Educator (ISMETA), and a certified practitioner of Brennan Healing Science. Fanchon has founded and directed a number of organizations throughout…

Susan Bendix

Susan Bendix holds a PhD in Education and an MFA in dance and choreography. She danced professionally in the United States and Europe and helped develop an arts based teacher education track at the Mary Lou Fulton College of Education at…