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(1950-2020) Dance critic, historian. Sally Banes was born in Silver Spring, Maryland, and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She moved to New York City in 1976.

Full Name

Sally Banes

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1950

BIRTH

Sally Rachel Banes was born in Silver Spring, Maryland, on October 9, 1950.

1980

LITWORK

Terpsichore in Sneakers: Post-Modern Dance
Houghton Mifflin
0395282128 ISBN-13: 978-0395282120
Nonfiction.

1980

OTHER

Ms. Banes received a Ph.D. in drama from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 1980.

1981

OTHER

Ms. Banes taught at SUNY Purchase from 1981 to 1986.

1983

LITWORK

Democracy's Body: Judson Dance Theater 1962--1964
UMI Research Press
0835714810 ISBN-13: 978-0835714815
Nonfiction.

1988

OTHER

Ms. Banes taught at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York from 1988 to 1991.

1993

LITWORK

Greenwich Village 1963: Avant-Garde Performance and the Effervescent Body
Duke University Press Books
082231357X ISBN-13: 978-0822313571
Nonfiction.

1994

LITWORK

Writing Dancing in the Age of Post-Modernism
Wesleyan University Press
0819552666 ISBN-13: 978-0819552662
Nonfiction.

1998

LITWORK

Dancing Women: Female Bodies on Stage
Routledge
0415096715 ISBN-13: 978-0415096713
Nonfiction.

1998

LITWORK

Subversive Expectations: Performance Art and Paratheater in New York 1976���1985
University of Michigan Press
0472096788 ISBN-13: 978-0472096787
Nonfiction.

2003

LITWORK

Reinventing Dance in the 1960s: Everything was Possible
University of Michigan Press
0299180107 ISBN-13: 978-0299180102
Nonfiction.

2007

LITWORK

Before, Between, and Beyond: Three Decades of Dance Writing
University of Wisconsin Press
0299221504 ISBN-13: 978-0299221508
Nonfiction.

2020

DEATH

Sally Banes died at a long-term care facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 14, 2020.

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