Betty Barr

Paul Barlin

Paul Barlin is a published fiction author of 6 books. Earlier in his career he directed Paul Barlin Dance Theater.

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…

Alexandra Baldina. Baldina gifted this photo to student Dorothy Tyne, and it now belongs to granddaughter Susan Tyne, a Grades Examiner at the Royal Academy of Dance.

Madam Alexandra Baldina

Madam Alexandra Baldina (1885-1977) was a renowned Russian ballerina. She was born in St. Petersburg and began her early training with the Imperial Ballet. In 1903 she graduated and joined the Mariinsky Ballet, and in 1905 she was transferred to the…

Larry Attaway

Sasha Anawalt

Judith Alter

Judith B. Alter M.A.T. & Ed.D. Harvard School of Education, Emerita UCLA Associate Professor in the World Cultures and Cultures/Dance Department. She taught at Tufts University and University of Wisconsin Madison from 1975 to 2000. She also taught graduate research on…

Don Hewitt

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…

Pia Gilbert

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…