Pam Tanowitz
American choreographer
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Jennifer Homans
Jennifer Homans published Apollo’s Angels in 2010, a history of classical ballet that she had been working on for ten years. It is an epic work, tracing four centuries and spanning different countries, setting the evolution of the form in the many political, philosophical, and aesthetic contexts that shaped it.
Theresa Ruth Howard
Founder of “Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet” (MoBBallet), which “preserves, presents, and promotes the contributions and stories of Black artists in the field of Ballet, illustrating that they are an integral part of dance history at large,” in 2015.
Nellie Campobello
Mexican dancer, choreographer, and researcher of indigenous dances, and the creator of the Ballet of Mexico City
Marta Arévalo Osorio
Mexican writer, choreographer, actress, and dancer
Jin Xing
Transgender Chinese dancer, choreographer television host
Patricia Ryan
Irish ballet dancer, choreographer and ballet company founder
Dorothy Moses Alexander
Founded by visionary dance instructor Dorothy Moses Alexander, the Atlanta Ballet began performing in 1929. Alexander’s dream of bringing quality ballet to the Atlanta community resulted in the Dorothy Alexander Dance Art Group—the first regional ballet company in the United States.
Sonia Revid
Sonia Revid created public health ballet at the height of ‘dance fever’
Kitty Lunn
Founder of Infinity Dance Theater, a nontraditional dance company in New York City that features dancers with and without disabilities, including those in wheelchairs.