 SONDRA
FORSYTH serves as a guest teacher for the open classes at
the American Ballet Theatre. She is the artistic director of Ballet
Ambassadors, an Arts-in-Education program which she
founded and which is supported by Project ARTS of the New York
City Board of Education and by the Suffolk County Board of
Cooperative Educational Services on Long Island. Sondra also
created the Harkness Ballet Outreach Program in the New York City
public schools under the auspices of the 92nd Street Y and served
as principal teaching artist for four seasons.
Her former teaching posts include the Young People's Program at
STEPS on Broadway, the Harkness Ballet Program at the Dance Center
of the 92nd Street Y, SUNY Purchase Youth Ballet summer program,
the Interlochen Arts Center, and the Studio de Ballet Opera in
Beirut, Lebanon.
She is a co-founder of the critically acclaimed Huntington
Ballet Theatre and the Huntington School of Ballet on Long Island
where she served as co-director and choreographer. Her
choreography and libretti have been lauded by such critics as
Joseph H. Mazo, Anne Tobias and Janice Berman and her students
have been invited to join such prestigious companies as the
National Ballet of Canada, the Joffrey II, the Pittsburgh Ballet,
BalletMet, the Pennsylvania Ballet, the Cleveland/San José
Ballet, the Carolina Ballet and the New York City Opera Ballet.
During her performing career, she was a principal dancer with
the New York Dance Theatre and a soloist with Thalia Mara's Ballet
Repertory. As a member of the Interlochen Youth Ballet, she danced
at the White House for President John F. Kennedy.
Also a journalist, she received a coveted National Magazine
Award in 1999, presented by the American Society of Magazine
Editors and the Columbia University School of Journalism. She is
the writer/editor of the newsletter of the Lincoln Center
Institute for the Arts in Education. The author or co-author of
eight books, she has also contributed to Dance Magazine and Dance
Spirit as well as many major publications. She has served as a
dance and drama reviewer for Back Stage and was the dance critic
for the Wisconsin State Journal.
Sondra holds an M.A. from Harvard University. She is a member of
the New York State Alliance for Arts in Education, the New York
City Arts in Education Roundtable, the Association of Teaching
Artists, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, The
Authors' Guild and the National Writers' Union. |
