Carla Escoda trained as a ballet and modern dancer at Ballet Philippines in Manila, Connecticut Ballet, and Yale University where she received her B.S. and M.S. in Engineering & Applied Science with a double major in French Literature.
She has reviewed dance, theatre and art in New York, the Bay Area, Hong Kong and points in between. Her writing has appeared in the Huffington Post, Bachtrack, KQED Arts, dance journal/hk, Dance International, Playbill and Dance Europe. She became a Google Glass Explorer when that controversial short-lived technology was introduced in 2013 and produced an experimental dance film with Glass before it gave way to bulkier and uglier headsets. SMH.
Former ballerina Leigh Donlan trained in Russian technique and a variety of folk and modern dance techniques, was Children’s Ballet Mistress at the Washington School of Ballet, Director of the Athenaeum School of Ballet, and studied English at the University of Oregon and Public Relations at Georgetown University. She is a devout arts advocate who likes to focus on women artists. She has been writing for Ballet to the People since 2014.
Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn lives in Brooklyn where he is a husband, a father to a teenager, a chef and an avid dance writer. Fatherhood is by far the hardest of his jobs. In his first career, he was a ballet dancer with the Hartford Ballet and the Ohio Ballet and never lost his love for the art. He just wishes he had more time to see more shows.
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