DANCE

 

Bira Almeida           
Master teacher and musician in Capoeira Afro-Brazilian art form; capoeira school administrator, educator and writer

Tandy Beal                    
Modern dancer, choreographer and teacher; Artistic Director, the New Pickle Family Circus

Ruth Beckford                
African American modern dancer and Afro-Haitian dance performer, choreographer and educator; playwright and writer

Jane Brown                    
Modern dance pioneer; classical ballet dancer; modern dance performer, choreographer, school administrator and educator; movement rehabilitation expert and writer

Yuri Cachero                 
Filipino/Native American dancer and teacher; Afro-Haitian and Native American dancer; community movement educator

Chitresh Das                  
Classical South Asian Indian Kathak dancer, choreographer and teacher; experimental choreographer

Frank Everett                 
Modern, jazz and ballet dancer with Oakland Ballet and ODC/SF, among others; modern dance choreographer

Lareen Fender            
Classical ballet teacher, dancer and choreographer

Arturo Fernandez
Mexican American ballet and modern dance performer with San Diego Ballet and ODC/SF among others; choreographer and educator; ballet master for Lines Contemporary Ballet (restricted)

Rebecca Fuller               
Moderndance choreographer and performer; dance educator, Mills College; dance technology

Eve Gentry                    
Modern dance pioneer; performer with Hanya Holm company; choreographer, performer, and dance educator; co-founder Dance Notation Bureau; dance rehabilitation expert

Henry "Buzz" Glass    
Russian-American folk dance artist; world folk dance researcher, reconstructor, educator and founder/administrator of California Folk Dance Federation; early childhood movement educator; recording artist on LP; writer

Jéfé Guimares                
Afro-Brazilian dance performer; Latin American folk and Candomblé ritual dance

Jenny Hunter Groat            
Modern dancer, choreographer and teacher,
primarily in experimental genre; student with
Anna Halprin; visual artist

Anna Halprin                 
Modern and experimental dancer, choreographer, and teacher; founder and director, Tamalpa Institute; writer and dance advocate

Ruth Hatfield                 
Modern dance performer, choreographer and teacher; children’s dance; somatics educator; dance advocate and activist

Pauline Henderson
Modern dance performer, choreographer and educator; dance education in England

William Huck                
Dance and music critic

Judy Job                       
Modern dance performer, choreographer and teacher; dance school administrator; dance advocate

Stanley Kahn                 
Tap dance master performer, choreographer, educator and innovative notator; dance director for Ice Follies; vaudeville

Thelma Langston            
Vaudeville performer

Richard LeBlond 
Performing arts sociologist; classical ballet dance administrator and past-president San Francisco Ballet; dance advocate and writer

Grace Mann                   
Classical ballet dancer; Ballet Russe performer; early American regional ballet choreographer and educator

Jamie McHugh               
Experimental dance performer and choreographer; children’s dance educator; somatics educator and writer

Jamie Miller                  
European American-Middle Eastern dance performer and educator; modern dancer trained by Bella Lewitzky and Lester Horton; experimental choreographer

Ed Mock                       
African American jazz dancer and choreographer; improvisation

Aaron Osborne               
Modern dance performer with José Limón and Lar Lubavitch dance companies; international dance educator

Lanny Pinola           
Pomo tribe NativeAmerican dancer and
educator; reconstructor of traditional dance
rituals

Rodney Price                 
Tap dancer; performer with Angels of Light experimental performance group during the 1960s and ’70s in San Francisco

Maclovia Ruiz               
Mexican-born Spanish classical dancer with Antonio’s troupe; interpretive dancer trained at Peters Wright School in San Francisco; classical ballet with Balanchine, Metropolitan Opera Ballet; San Francisco Opera Ballet; early film and urban ballroom dancer

Dennis Rumsey              
Dance administrator, San Francisco Ballet and Sacramento Ballet

Tomm Ruud                  
Classical ballet performer and choreographer, San Francisco Ballet and Ballet West

Victor Salazar                
Mexican American performer with Los Lupeños Folkloric Dance Company, San José CA (restricted)

Terry Sendgraff   
Modern dancer and choreographer; gymnastic educator; innovator of “Motivity” and aerial dance genre, including single-point trapeze work; community activist

Frank Shawl                  
Modern dance performer, choreographer and teacher; performer with May O’Donnell Company; television; dance school administrator      

Michael Smuin              
Classical ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher; artistic director, San Francisco Ballet and Smuin Ballet; film director and Broadway choreographer

Kong The'ap                  
Khmer cultural dance performer trained at theCambodian Royal Palace Dance Theater; cultural dance educator and reconstructor

Gloria Unti                    
Dance/theater performer and choreographer; dance educator and community activist; founder, Performing Arts Workshop in San Francisco

Keith White                   
Dance writer and critic, American ballet and modern dance

David K.C. Wood            
Modern dance performer with Martha Graham Dance Company; choreographer, educator and chair, UC-Berkeley Department of Dance

Circle The Earth, Dancing With Life On The Line, 1991: Oral History of a Movement Ritual (Healing dance ritual by Anna Halprin)

  1. Brian Varanzoff; modern dance performer and choreographer;
  2. Jerry DeJong, dance administrator;
  3. "Mary,” community dancer;
  4. Jeff Rehg, contact improvisation dancer
   
 

MUSIC

 

Eddie Alley                    
Jazz drummer; integrated Musicians Union Local 6 in San Francisco

Julia Colvig                  
Musician withBerkeley Piano Club; member of musical family including John Colvig

Vivian Fine       
Musician; experimental composer including original works for early modern dance pioneers

Joseph Harris                 
Dresser, San Francisco Ballet and San Francisco Opera

Thomas Heimberg           
Violist; classical music performer with San Francisco Symphony and Opera/Ballet Orchestras; orchestra manager; writer, teacher and labor advocate

   
 

THEATER

 

Dean Goodman   
Actor for stage, film and radio; theater director, educator, producer, writer, critic and labor activist

Ruth Kobart                   
Theater, musical theater, and opera performer; actor on Broadway, with American Conservatory Theater and others

Barbara Oliver                
Theaterdirector; founder, Aurora Theatre, Berkeley CA; actor and theater educator, theater company administrator, writer

William Paterson            
Theater actor with Cleveland Playhouse and American Conservatory Theater; adaptor of plays and published writer

Jean Shelton                  
Theater actor, director and educator; theater school administrator and writer

Keeping up with the Joans
(Comic play by Sara Felder based on oral history
interviews with three Joans

  1. Joan Schirle
    Physical theater actor; theater educator and writer; administrator, Dell’Arte Players, California (restricted)
  2. Joan Mankin                              
    Physical theater actor; professional clown (restricted)
  3. Joan Holden                               
    Physical theater actor; director, playwright, adaptor, translator; theater educator and writer; member, San Francisco Mime Troupe (restricted)
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tom Heimberg. San Francisco Opera Orchestra Violist and subject of a Legacy Oral History shortly before his death in 2007.