From Everyone at LA Dance Chronicle

By Jeff Slayton | Dec 25, 2020

To our readers and subscribers,

Happy Holidays to you all! May 2021 bring health and a return of dance to the stage! Thank you for your continued support of LA Dance Chronicle!

With love,

Martin Holman, Jeff Slayton, and the entire LADC writing staff: Ann Haskins, Joanne DiVito, Mary Pat Cooney, Tam Warner, Celine Kiner, Lara J. Altunian, Matthew Shaffer, and Nancy Dobbs Owen

About The Author

Jeff Slayton

Jeff has had a long and influential career as a dancer, choreographer, and educator. Born in Virginia in 1945, Slayton began dancing as a child in order to correct his condition of hip dysplasia. He enjoyed a performance career in New York dancing for Merce Cunningham, Viola Farber and others. In 1978 he moved to Long Beach, CA. where began teaching at California State University, Long Beach as a part time faculty member. He became a full time faculty member in 1986 and continued to teach at CSULB until 1999. Jeff Slayton was one of the faculty members that helped design the Dance Center at CSULB as well as develop and implement the BFA, MFA and MA degree programs. While in Long Beach, he formed his own company, Jeff Slayton & Dancers, that operated from 1978 to 1983. He is also the author of two books, "The Prickly Rose: A Biography of Viola Farber" and "Dancing Toward Sanity". For more information on Jeff Slayton please visit jeffslayton.org