Banes, Sally (Personal Name)

Her Sweet home Chicago, 1974.

Her Terpsichore in sneakers, 1986, c1979: CIP t.p. (Sally Banes) data sheet (b. 10/9/50)

Dancing women, 1998: CIP t.p. (Sally Banes) galley (Sally Rachel Banes)

Information from 678 converted Dec. 19, 2014 (B.A. in theatre and criticism)

Washington post WWW site, viewed June 18, 2020 (in obituary dated June 17, 2020: Sally Banes, a dance critic, historian and teacher who was among the first to consider break dancing a form of artistic expression and whose writings on modern dance traditions helped shape the views of performers and scholars, died June 14 in Philadelphia. She was 69. Sally Rachel Banes was born Oct. 9, 1950, in Washington. Dr. Banes studied dance and other arts while growing up and graduated from the University of Chicago in 1972 with an interdisciplinary major combining criticism, theater and art. She joined the MoMing theater collective and wrote dance criticism for the Chicago Reader before moving to New York. She occasionally appeared in dance performances while writing for the SoHo Weekly News and later the Village Voice and Dance magazine. She helped choreograph several dance works. She received a doctorate in theater history from New York University in 1980. Dr. Banes taught at Florida State University, the State University of New York's Purchase College, Wesleyan University and Cornell University before joining the faculty of the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1991. She taught dance and theater history and, from 1992 to 1996, chaired the dance program. She was an editor of Dance Research Journal from 1982 to 1988 and served as president of the Society of Dance History Scholars)