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….

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 =…

Reprinted from http://www.arhu.umd.edu/news/larrywarren by permission of Anne Weaver Warren, Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Dance University of Maryland Larry Warren, Dance Biographer and Choreographer, Passes Away Larry Warren (1932-2009) Larry Warren, dance biographer, choreographer, teacher, and director, passed away…

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,…

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…