Auntie Mame’s story was told by her doting nephew, Patrick Dennis. Malcolm X’s biographer was Alex Haley, Jr. Had Haley…
Toba Singer
Toba Singer, author of “Fernando Alonso, the Father of Cuban Ballet” (University Press of Florida 2013), and “First Position: a Century of Ballet Artists” (Praeger 2007), writes for international dance journals and websites, and has served as an advisor to the San Francisco Museum of Performance and Design. She was the University Press of Florida author representative at the 2013 Miami International Book Fair. “Fernando Alonso, the Father of Cuban Ballet” was nominated for the Latin American Student Association Bryce Award, the de la Torre Research and Dance Scholars Award, and the Commonwealth Club California Book Award.
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Smuin Contemporary Ballet is currently bringing Dance Series 1 to stages around the San Francisco Bay Area, in Mountain View,…
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