Meeting during the years Graham toured extensively in Italy; she became fan and friend and is a Graham expert - scholar, teacher, choreographer and a doctor. She supported us all over Italy and Europe, studied with me at CENADAC and in New York, and is now bringing up another generation of dancers up in Italy originating a program at Carcano in Milano, Italy. Great to have her teaching at danz.fest, and to see her web resource on all things Martha Graham.

Jaime and I have known each other since I began working in Mexico. His intellect, choreography, wide reading and study in theater and dance have inspired me. As directors of dance companies we had much to share, including many a tequila. Wonderful to work with him creating Uñas y Dientes and to perform in his La Consagración de la Primavera at Harvard. His most recent works, Las Criadas and Viajante Corazón de Sol are marvelous theater dance works.

Jesus Tussi in Las Criadas

La Consagración de la Primavera
at Harvard

Jaime Blanc is one of Mexico’s principal choreographers, teachers and most highly regarded dancers. He was principal dancer, associate artistic director and choreographer for the Ballet Nacional de Mexico between 1971 and 2006. He was awarded the national José Limón Prize in 2003. Blanc has created more than 54 works and in 2006 began his own company, Teatro Coreográfico Alternativo. His work has been supported by Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes and by Consejo Indio de Relaciones Culturales for studies in Danza Drama Kathakalai in Kerala - Kalamandalam, India. He is a member of Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte and a frequent jurist for the National Cultural Council. Trained in Mexico and New York at the schools of Graham, Cunningham, Nikolai and Limón, he is currently on the faculty of the Universidad de Monterrey, choreographing, teaching and developing their dance/theater program.

Safe to say, as one of my two first dance teachers, she bears some responsibility for my continuing in dance. Our dance lives have been connected ever since. Most recently I worked with her at Harvard and she joins me teaching at danz.fest in Italy.

A friend and brilliant physical therapist, whose instincts and deep knowledge of the body helped keep me together through many of my years of marathon dancing and teaching.

Dancing for Pearl Lang's company, we met in 1973; Jacquie has been part of my life ever since. Her sense of humor and passion for dance made the Graham Company tours even more of an adventure during the decade we danced together with Martha. She amazes with her uncompromising and beautiful choreography that is the heart and soul of Buglisi Dance Theatre.

Brilliant performer, together on the long strange wonderful trip at Graham; an extraordinary partnership of wildly different personalities, great trust and great fun dancing, traveling. Then as artistic directors bringing the company back to life. On and offstage family; with Bill’s humour and talents, and, on tour, Thompson making us all a bit more human. With Jacqulyn and Donlin we created Buglisi Foreman Dance.

I've been a fan since I saw him beginning a solo career in a basement performance space and with Ralph Lemon. Great to perform with his Quartet in his Solos Project at Dance Theater Workshop. Inviting him to teach with me at CENADAC, dancers were amazed to discover how seamlessly his work and mine ran through their bodies. He just finished a second marvelous season at BAM.

One of my students in the early years at CENADAC , the Ballet Nacional. His work flourished in NY as he developed a choreographic voice and now he is at the heart of dance in Querétaro with his Compañía Ciudad Interior. He has won top awards from Mexico's National Award Miguel Covarrubias INBA - UAM and the VII International Contest of Choreography Burgos - New York 2008. I've been glad to assist him and to have performed with his Proyecto Lamentación- Todos al Teatro; at the Teatro Juárez in Guanajuato, Mexico celebrating the dance traditions we share, in the interlocking traditions of Martha Graham and Guillermina Bravo.

Her work has inspired and entertained me for years. What a pleasure to have been part of creating Ann the Word — dancing, singing, acting with her marvelous cast in the Lincoln Center Productions workshop of this work about the founder of the Shakers. Terese and I were honored she choreographed a work for the Graham Company's 2005 NY Season: Sueño was a powerful dance/theater statement and a marvelous creative experience for the dancers. I loved my cameo role.

Brilliant designer of this website, also my brother, medieval historian, and musician.

A partnership onstage that was profound, always creative, sometimes combative and showed audiences the intimacy and power of female/male relationships in Martha's dances. Donlin brought depth to the male roles and new complexity to the repertory. Jacquie and Donlin, with Terese and me, created Buglisi Foreman Dance.

A fellow Radcliffe Fellow, what a pleasure to spend time talking dance and Mexico, discovering our dance roots in common. Her knowledge of Mexican and Latin American politics and culture is phenomenal. An honor to have her as guest lecturer for my Harvard course Rite of Spring; the nexus of art and ritual.

A Juilliard student who shone and became principal dancer with Buglisi Dance Theatre, now includes Alexander teaching among her talents. She has graciously performed and taught for Kozlov International Youth Dance Festival in New Jersey and in Aruba.

Leonid is an old friend whose talent and artistic vision I love, and whom I am glad to have introduced to the beauty of Martha Graham's work. Star of the Bolshoi and of Balanchine's New York City Ballet, Leonid has an extraordinary talent for teaching kids, and has turned his vast professional experience at the Bolshoi and at the New York City Ballet into an incomparable resource and inspiration for his students. In 2005 he founded the Youth Dance Festival of New Jersey for which I am judge and master teacher. Leonid's relationship with the dance community in Aruba began with a Nutcracker and has recently produced a first summer event, Stars of American Dance that was great fun and beautiful for the audience. Leonid this year celebrates 30 years of a dancing life in the United States since his defection from Russia.

A lifesaver to have found as doctor; deeply caring, skilled, and a delight to have as friend.

A dancer I first met at CENADAC, who had something special from the beginning: natural power and poetry. With a Coca Cola Scholarship, and support to study at Graham, she went on to study and work widely in New York. Now back in Mexico she has created Invernadero Danza for the Oaxacan dance community. Beginning its third year, this impressive project will again bring guest teachers for classes and performances to one of the most exciting art/dance communities in Mexico.

One of my first Juilliard students, brilliant on stage with Battleworks and the Ailey Company, he's wowing audiences. He has generously performed for Kozlov International Youth Dance Festival of New Jersey. Great to have his talent and humor filming La Voz del Cuerpo / The Body Speaks, with us in Mexico.

As one of my Juilliard students I knew she would be brilliant for Martha Graham's work, I hired her, and she was; as well as wonderful to work with. She has since widened her horizons bringing her dance and teaching talent, generosity to other corners of the world. Her brilliance in the film/DVD project, La Voz del Cuerpo / The Body Speaks, is stunning, and we had a marvelous time during the filming with her husband Jason contributing his photographer's eye.

Fellow Fellow at The Radcliffe Institute, she is a marvel of creative thinking, curiosity, passion and a brilliant scientist. Unable to stop talking, thinking, eating and doing during the Radcliffe year, we organized the symposium "Locomotion/Emotion; perception of complex movement and the dynamics of beauty" which now continues as the Dancing Leaf Group.

A renaissance man of wide vision, many talents and big heart whose friendship I treasure. His choreography, sculpture, teaching and design are on a grand scale and filled with brilliant detail. His invitation brought me to Colima in 1998 where he is the director of Dance at IUBA (Instituto Universitario de Bellas Artes) at the University of Colima. and the Ballet Folkloric which is internationally recognized for its authenticity, innovation, and the quality of its dancers and musicians.

My better half, a brilliant polymath – carpenter, stage technician, technical director of dance companies, film editor. 'Mi vida'.