Jack Cole
Jack Cole, born John Ewing Richter, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Early on he decided to pursue dance with the Denishawn Dance Company led by Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn. He made is first professional appearance in August 1930,…
Margalit Oved
Margalit Oved, A Brief Biography by Karen Goodman This article was written for the Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2006 Margalit Oved (1937), dancer, choreographer, singer, percussionist, composer, teacher, actress. She was born in the British Protectorate of Aden, seventh of nine children…
Stella Matsuda
It was as a very young child, during WWII, in the concentration camps of Poston, AZ, where my family and I were interned, that I first saw a tap dance to “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree” and fell in…
Fred Strickler
My current activities as a dancer, choreographer and teacher are a continuation of my professional work, which began nationally in 1961, when I danced in summer stock in New England, and internationally in 1966, when I performed in Greenland, Iceland…
Rudy Perez
A pioneer in post-modern and experimental dance, Rudy Perez began his training and career in his native New York. He studied voice and piano at New York’s High School of Music and Arts and went on to study dance with…
Linda Lack
Linda Lack, Ph.D., artist and scholar, has dedicated her life and work to the study of the human body, movement — breath — and their relationship to creativity, healing, and spiritually. She is a dancer, a movement therapist/specialist, ritualist, performer…
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