Anne Barlin
Anne Barlin is a leading pioneer in creative dance for children. Born in France in 1916, Anne started her dance career at the age of 2 in Germany at a kindergarten that had been strongly influenced by Isadora Duncan. Later in…
Bobby Banas
Bobby Banas had a long and successful career dancing in the Broadway, Film, and Television industries. Born in New York in 1933, Banas began taking dance lessons with his sister as a boy. After the second World War ended, the Banas…
Don Hewitt
Don Hewitt was born Portland, Oregon where he studied music and drama. While in high school he began intensive ballet training with Drid Williams. After a year in university he moved to Toronto, Ontario to study with the National Ballet…
Alvin Ailey
Alvin Ailey (1931-1989) was born in 1931 in Rogers, Texas and at age 11 moved to Los Angeles with his mother. He began his formal studies in dance in Los Angeles under Lester Horton in 1949 after being introduced by…
Gary K. Bates
Gary Bates has been a part of the Los Angeles dance community since 1960 when he joined the Eugene Loring Dance Players. As a scholarship student at the American School of Dance in Hollywood he studied with some of the…
Lester Horton
Lester Horton (January 23, 1906 – November 2, 1953) was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana. As a young boy, Horton was fascinated by the American Indian, which later inspired him to study Native American dance and influenced his movement style….
Karen Goodman
Karen Goodman, M.A. Honors include the 1986 Vanguard Award for Choreographic Innovation for Hard Feelings, a 1987 Brody Arts Fund Fellowship, a 1990 NEA Choreographer’s Fellowship, grants from the City and County of Los Angeles, the 1998 Lester Horton Award…
L. Martina Young
L. Martina Young is a native Los Angeleno and a recognized participant in the Los Angeles dance world from the 1970’s through 1990’s. Informed by a politic of community-focused engagement as well as an awareness of the distinction between careerism…
Don Bondi
Don Bondi’s Life in a Nutshell 2 Name: Don Brady Bondi Additional residences: Los Angeles, Savannah, South Korea, Malibu, New York School: Aragon Avenue Elementary – graduated = Jan 1945 Florence Nightingale Junior High (SB Boy’s VP) – graduated =…
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