Remembering Donald Bradburn, Renowned Dance Photographer, Dancer, Designer and Choreographer

Renowned dance photographer, dancer, designer and choreographer, Donald Dale Bradburn passed away on July 23 in Cedar City, Utah, after an extended illness. Don’s photos captured such dance luminaries as Nureyev, Baryshnikov, Markova, Fonteyn, Peter Martins, Cynthia Gregory and Alicia Alonso. More than 350 of his photographs appeared in Dance Magazine, where he served as […]

Remembering Zizi Jeanmaire, French Ballerina and Film Star

French ballerina Zizi Jeanmaire died peacefully at her Swiss home on July 17 at the age of 96, reported Valentine Petit, Jeanmaire’s daughter with choreographer Roland Petit (1924-2011). One of the French dance world’s most iconic personalities, Jeanmaire was a trailblazer. A list of her numerous collaborators reads like a long “Who’s Who” of the […]

Martha Graham Dancer Helen Gray McGehee, 98, Dies

Helen Gray McGehee Umaña passed away peacefully on April 9, 2020. Born in Lynchburg, Virginia on May 10, 1921, McGehee graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in 1942 with a major in Latin and Greek. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, McGehee found her calling and her talent for modern dance while in college. After doing […]

Michael Maule, Former ABT and NYCB Dancer, Has Died

Ballet dancer Michael Maule recently passed away. Maule was born in Durban, South Africa, where he started his dance studies. He then continued them in England and the United States. He became a U.S. citizen in 1956 and married Joan Watson in 1965. He danced with Ballet Theatre, now American Ballet Theatre. He partnered Alicia […]

Lili Cockerille Livingston, One of America’s First Claras, Dies at 72

Lili Cockerille Livingston danced with the Harkness Ballet from 1964 to 69 and then with the Joffrey Ballet until 1972, when she left to perform in the Broadway show Via Gallactica. As a child, Livingston had been one of the first Claras in the U.S. Nutcracker, as staged by Freddie Franklin and Alexandra Fedorova. Anna […]

Remembering Blondell Cummings (1944–2015)

A dancer/choreographer who crossed over from modern to postmodern, from the black dance community to the avant-garde community, Blondell Cummings was a riveting presence onstage and a steadying presence offstage. She died of pancreatic cancer last Sunday, Aug. 30. Cummings grew up in Harlem; she attended NYU and studied at the Martha Graham School of […]

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