Jean Isaacs

Elizabeth Ince

Elizabeth Ince

SAG • AFTRA • AEA Elizabeth Ince began her career in the theater department at UCLA in the musical Love Thy Coach with Carol Burnett. She also studied dance at Juilliard with the legendary Martha Graham, and acting with Broadway…

Al Huang

Al Huang

Chungliang Al Huang, born in China, was immersed in the traditional study of Tai Ji, Kung Fu, brush calligraphy, and classic Chinese scholarly arts from a young age. In 1949, his family fled mainland China for Taiwan where he continued…

Ben Howard

Mantle Hood

Claudia Chapline in Egg Play at Woman’s Building, Los Angeles, April 14, 1974, photo by Lyn Smith.

Claudia Chapline Hood

Excerpts from “Moving Out of the Frame”, a memoir by Claudia Chapline DANCING IN LOS ANGELES WITH GLORIA NEWMAN AND CARMELITA MARACCI To me, dance is the most difficult of the arts. It demands daily classes to maintain and develop…

Bonnie Oda Homsey

Bonnie Oda Homsey

Bonnie Oda Homsey is the founding Director of Los Angeles Dance Foundation (LADF), the nonprofit charitable corporation established in 1978 under which she and Janet Eilber co-founded the award-winning American Repertory Dance Company (ARDC).  For ten years, she produced ARDC’s…

Stanley Holden

Joy Hewitt

Scott Heinzerling

Scott Heinzerling was one of the lead dancers in The Ohio Ballet for many years. Touring the United States and Europe many times, he went on to become a professor of dance at Loyola Marymount University and recently retired after…