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Growing up in a family of six girls was by turns harrowing, hilarious and character-building, but never boring. Looking back on her childhood with a mixture of humor and incredulity, the author's tale takes the reader on a nostalgic dance down memory lane as seen through the prism of the COVID pandemic. Touching on themes of immigration, (her mother was a child of Hungarian immigrants) assimilation and memory, it invites the reader to contemplate their own ancestry and lineage and how our pasts shape our present and future.

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-A Dancer's Diary: Around the World in Thirteen Dances (2017) a combination of travelogue, dance reviews and diary, the author takes the reader on a kaleidoscopic journey, an account of her dance adventures in Bali, Spain, Cuba and among others, illuminating a diversity of styles such as flamenco, kathak, contemporary, ballet and indigenous forms in Bali and the United States. available on Amazon.

-The New Yorker: "Notes on Dance", Letter to the Editor, July 29,2019

-criticaldance.org: Moderator and Contributor:   

• Ballet Nacional de Cuba: Swan Lake, August 6,

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• Aspen/Santa Fe Ballet, April 2, 2016
• Kid Pivot and Electric Company Theater: "Betroffenheit", March 20, 2016
• 'Contemporary Cataclysms: Akram Khan Company in Kaash", November 16, 2015
• "New Israeli Voices in Dance: Hillel Kogan and Danielle Agami", March 27, 2015

-Dance International: "Creative Movement as a Foundation for Ballet", Dance Ed column, Winter 2018 issue

-Contact Quarterly: "Dancing and Climbing Mountains, Choreographic Processes". Summer/Fall, 1995 issue

-Woman Image Now: Arizona Women in the Arts, "Did you Ever Meet a Woman who Wanted to be Pope: Profile of Ann Ludwig, Dance Artist", Volume Four, 1989-1990-