In Memory

Gone but not forgotten. In memoriam 2009…

Dec 20th, 2009 | By Dance Journal Staff | Category: In Memory

Those whom the dance community has lost in 2009, but whose contributions shall not be forgotten…
Peggy Amsterdam
Age 60 – Sadly, as I was putting this tribute together, it was announced that Peggy Amsterdam died of cancer at home this Saturday. While not a dancer or choreographer, she has been a champion to the dance community [...]

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In Memory

Mar 13th, 2009 | By Dance Journal Staff | Category: In Memory

Lenore Annenberg, philanthropist
Desiree Melissa Jane Stevenson, dancer

Leonore Annenberg
Leonore Annenberg, who as the widow of billionaire publisher Walter Annenberg continued his tradition of philanthropy and patronage of the arts, died Thursday. She was 91. Annenberg died of natural causes at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif., said family spokeswoman Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the [...]

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