Rose Anne Thom

Rose Anne Thom has been a member of the faculty at Sarah Lawrence College since l975, teaching courses in dance history, criticism, Labanotation, and pedagogy for graduate and undergraduate students within the dance department, and courses in dance history as part of the humanities curriculum. A writer and critic of live performance and film/video for Dance Magazine since l968, her free-lance writing credits include Collier’s Encyclopedia, Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, International Dictionary of Ballet and The Forward as well as articles and reviews in other periodicals. She has been an auditor for the Dance Program of the New York State Council for the Arts and an Oral Historian for the Dance Research Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and the School of American Ballet Oral Preservation Project.

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