1. Stuart Hodes was an American dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, dance administrator and author.
21 Facts About Stuart Hodes
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Stuart Hodes was Martha Graham's partner, danced on Broadway, in TV, film, in recitals, and with his own troupe.
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Stuart Hodes's choreography has appeared on the Boston Ballet, Dallas Ballet, Harkness Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, San Francisco Ballet and other troupes.
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Stuart Hodes taught at the Martha Graham School, Neighborhood Playhouse, NYC High School of Performing Arts, headed dance at NYU School of the Arts and Borough of Manhattan Community College.
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Stuart Hodes was Dance Associate for the NY State Council on the Arts, dance panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, president of the National Association of Schools of Dance, and a member of the First American Dance Study Team to China in 1980, returning in 1992 to teach the Guangzhou modern dance troupe.
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Stuart Hodes Gescheidt was born in New York City in November 1924 and grew up in Flushing, Miami Beach, and Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.
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Stuart Hodes attended PS 98, Brooklyn Technical High School, and Brooklyn College, entered the army in 1943, served in the Army Air Corps.
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Stuart Hodes committed to dance in fall, 1947, adding daily ballet classes at the School of American Ballet.
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Stuart Hodes spent 1947 through 1958 with the Martha Graham Dance Company.
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Graham dancers were not paid for rehearsals so for income, Stuart Hodes taught and danced on Broadway, TV, and night clubs.
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Stuart Hodes was in the original casts of Do Re Mi, First Impressions, Milk and Honey, Paint Your Wagon, Peer Gynt, Sophie, The Barrier, To Broadway with Love, Ziegfeld Follies, and the City Center revival of Annie Get Your Gun.
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Stuart Hodes was a replacement in Kismet, By the Beautiful Sea, Once Upon a Mattress, The King and I and The Most Happy Fella.
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Stuart Hodes danced with younger choreographers including, DJ McDonald, Claire Porter, Stephan Koplowitz, and Gus Solomons, Jr.
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Elizabeth performed The Sound of Wings, written by Stuart Hodes based on the life of Amelia Earhart.
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Stuart Hodes opened Dancer's Studio in 1952, a space used by other choreographers including Merce Cunningham and Robert Joffrey.
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Stuart Hodes choreographed for the San Francisco Ballet, Santa Fe Opera, St Louis Municipal Opera, Boston Ballet, Dallas Ballet and Cologne Opera Ballet.
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Stuart Hodes was commissioned by ChoreoConcerts, curated and produced by Laura Foreman, the New School's dance director.
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Stuart Hodes was a guest teacher in Toronto, London, Copenhagen, Zurich, in China and Russia.
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Stuart Hodes brought about sale of its commercial co-op loft in SoHo and secured its present multistory Chelsea building.
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Stuart Hodes' contribution included Martha's Rap, a whimsical recounting of her career that began:.
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Stuart Hodes died in New York City on March 15,2023, at the age of 98.