Carmen de Lavallade
Carmen de Lavallade (1931-present) was born in raised in Los Angeles. Inspired by her older cousin Janet Collins, she began taking formal dance lessons at the age of 14 with Melissa Blake. Two years later, Carmen received a scholarship to…
Lynda Davis
Lynda Davis has had extensive performing, choreographing, directing and teaching experience that encompasses both the professional and educational dance worlds. Davis is a former member of the Gloria Newman Dance Theater and a featured dancer with the Bella Lewitzky Dance…
Lynn Dally
Lynn Dally co-founded the Jazz Tap Ensemble with dancers Fred Strickler and Camden Richman in 1979. As dancer and choreographer, she has created a large body of original tap choreographies for the concert stage and performed worldwide on tour with the JTE. She has appeared often with…
John Clifford
Los Angeles native John Clifford is best known as the founder and artistic director of the original Los Angeles Ballet (1974-1985), the chamber sized touring ensemble Ballet of Los Angeles (1988-1991) and Los Angeles Dance Theater (2004 – present). Earlier in…
Ronnie Brosterman
Ronnie Brosterman is Professor of Dance and Chair of the Dance Department at Scripps College in Claremont, California. She performed with the Boston Ballet prior to receiving her BS in Architecture from M.I.T. and her MA in Dance from the University…
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…
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