Lois Ellyn, ballet dancer, choreographer, teacher and founder and artistic director of Nouveau Chamber Ballet in Fullerton, California, died on Saturday, August 28, 2021, just a few weeks after directing the ballet production A Little Night Dancing, at the Muckenthaler Cultural Center in Fullerton. Ellyn was born Lois Margaret Ellen Smith on June 19, 1924, […]

Maria Giacobbe Alessandra passed away at her home in Metairie, Louisiana, on May 29, 2021, with her daughter Nan by her bedside. As a dance teacher for 75 years, she taught with a rare combination of love, discipline, dedication and passion overlaid by a deep maternal care for each of her students. Maria Giacobbe made […]

Allegra Fuller Snyder, professor emerita and former chair of the department of dance at UCLA, and a founder of the Buckminster Fuller Institute, died July 11 at her apartment in Westbrook, Maine, at the age of 93. The daughter of R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Fuller, Snyder was born in Chicago in 1927. Her […]

Manager and mentor to generations of performers and arts professionals, Sheldon Soffer passed away peacefully on June 23, 2021, at age 93 in Fort Myers, Florida. By his side was his aide of three years, Ron Wendell, and his cherished puppy. Soffer was born August 20, 1927, to immigrants Bertha Weiss Soffer and Samuel Soffer. […]

Bella Malinka Dall, October 5, 1922–May 12, 2021, is fondly remembered by a wealth of students who began their dedication to the discipline of dance in her ballet class at the famed Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts from 1949 to 1981. Many went on to make their own […]

Helene Breazeale, of Baltimore, Maryland, passed away on May 18, 2021, at the age of 83. Performer/choreographer/teacher/historian/author/proud mother and grandmother, and Baltimorean, Dr. Helene Breazeale did it all! She was born in 1937 in Baltimore, where she lived most of her life. She is survived by her sister, Maxine Caplan, son Greg Breazeale, daughter-in-law Jamie […]

Luis Biasotto, renowned Argentinian dancer, choreographer, director, teacher and co-founder of Grupo Krapp, died of complications from COVID-19 on May 16 in his hometown of Córdoba, Argentina. He was 49. Of his untimely death, Luciana Acuña, his long-time artistic partner and friend shared this remembrance on Grupo Krapp’s Facebook page, “Who am I going to […]

Anna Halprin, the source of many of the ideas in experimental dance of the last 60 years, passed away at age 100 on May 24. Her teachings strongly influenced Judson Dance Theater, site-specific dance, somatic dance practice and community rituals. For her, dance was something to bring out of the theater and into our daily […]