1. Sally Rachel Banes was a notable dance historian, writer, and critic.
24 Facts About Sally Banes
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Sally Banes attended the University of Chicago and graduated in 1972 with an interdisciplinary degree in criticism, art, and theater.
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Sally Banes belonged to a group known as The Collective.
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Sally Banes founded MoMing, which was a collectively owned theater where actors and dancers could come to teach one another class.
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Sally Banes continued exploring the post-modern world and attended workshops with members of Judson Dance.
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Sally Banes performed for Simone Forti, Kenneth King, and Meredith Monk.
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Sally Banes studied ballet with Ed Parish and Peter Saul.
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Sally Banes studied modern with Jim Self, Maggie Kast, and Shirley Mordine as well as taking class at both the Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham studios.
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Sally Banes earned her PhD with a dissertation on Judson Dance Theater.
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Sally Banes was married to fellow art and film philosopher Noel Carroll.
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In May 2002 Sally Banes suffered a massive stroke, from which she never recovered.
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Sally Banes remained cognitively and physically severely handicapped until her death of ovarian cancer on June 14,2020.
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Sally Banes first worked for the Chicago Reader starting in 1973.
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Sweet Home Chicago: The Real City Guide, coauthored by Sally Banes, was her first published book.
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Sally Banes took over the project and decided that the best way to learn how to write about dance was to practice.
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Sally Banes stayed at the Reader until 1976 when she moved to New York City.
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On top of an extensive written portfolio, Sally Banes has taught at various institutions.
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Sally Banes was an assistant professor at Florida State University in 1980.
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Sally Banes was a past president and Honorary Fellow of the Society of Dance History Scholars.
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Sally Banes covers everything from mid nineteenth century Romantic ballet in France and Denmark to historical modern dance of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s in Germany and the United States to contemporary ballet from the 1930s to the 1950s in Europe and the United States.
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Many of the emerging artists Sally Banes reviewed are now luminaries of the historical canon.
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Ironically, this conception even allows Rainier's Trio A, which Sally Banes championed, to be dance.
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In 2003, Sally Banes won the Lifetime Achievement Award for her Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research from the Congress on Research in Dance.
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The Society of Dance History Scholars has given her a similar lifetime achievement award and Sally Banes has won a Bessie Award for her Lifetime Contribution to Dance Criticism.