Author: Martin Holman

Karen Louis is a nonprofit executive and arts leader with more than 15 years of experience strengthening cultural and education organizations across Los Angeles. She currently serves as Executive Director of the Neighborhood...

Brian was trained at Contra Costa Ballet with Donald Eryck, Jocelyn Vollmar, and Brynar Mehl, and at Manhattan School of Dance with Margaret Craske, Sallie Wilson, Tex Hightower and Robert Ossorio. In Modern Dance he trained at...

Ann Haskins joined LA Dance Chronicle as a contributor shortly after it began and became a founding board member when LADC became a non-profit organization. Now semi-retired, Haskins was an Administrative Law Judge for the State...

Jeff Slayton began his professional career performing with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and he later became a principal dancer with the Viola Farber Dance Company. Slayton and Farber shared an award for Creativity and...

Joanne began her dance career in Chicago as a demi soloist with the Illinois Ballet Company, having studied with Edna MacRae (Ballet Mistress for Joffrey) and Richard & Christine Ellis from the Royal Ballet. She then moved...