Vanessa Sanchez y La Mezcla
Vanessa Sanchez’s work as a dancer, choreographer, and founding artistic director of the dance group La Mezcla is born from deep engagement with the music and dance traditions of the Latinx and Afro-Latinx diaspora.
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Joan Moriarty
Irish traditional musician, step dancer, ballet dancer, teacher, choreographer, and founder of professional ballet in Ireland
Sophiline Cheam Shapiro
An exceptional dancer, vocalist, teacher, and award-winning choreographer in the Cambodian classical dance form. A master artist of the 1,000-year-old tradition, Shapiro was a member of the first generation to graduate from the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, after the fall of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge.
Norma Miller
Norma Miller is one of the creators of the acrobatic style of swing dancing known as the Lindy Hop.
Anjani Ambegaokar
Anjani Ambegaokar came to the United States in 1967 from her native India and went on to become the most well known dancer, choreographer, and educator of Kathak in the nation.
Miriam Cole
Modern dancer, choreographer and teacher
Pola Nirenska
Modern dancer and choreographer
Marge Champion
American actress, dancer, director, choreographer, and teacher.
Martha Graham
Groundbreaking modern dance choreographer
Katherine Dunham
Katherine Dunham (1909–2006) studied the African-based dances and rituals of the Caribbean area and based many choreographic works on that research.