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Wendy Perron

Editor in Chief

Wendy danced with the Trisha Brown Dance Company in the 1970s and has performed with many other NYC choreographers. Her own group, the Wendy Perron Dance Company, appeared at The Joyce, DTW, the Danspace Project, and the Lincoln Center Festival, as well as in cities throughout the U.S. She was one of eight choreographers profiled in the documentary film Retracing Steps: American Dance Since Postmodernism. She has taught dance at many colleges including Bennington and Princeton, and in contemporary dance centers in Europe and Russia. In addition to contributing articles to The New York Times, The Village Voice, Ballet Review, and of course, Dance Magazine, Wendy has written a brief memoir about her training and influences in Reinventing Dance in the 1960s: Everything Was Possible, edited by Sally Banes. She is also artistic advisor to the Fall for Dance festival at City Center.

Hanna Rubin

Executive Managing Editor

Hanna has written on dance for a variety of publications, including The New York Times, Time Out: New York, and The Village Voice. She is co-author of The Ballet Book (Rizzoli, 2003), and has worked as an editor at Travel Holiday, Boating, Adweek and other publications.

Khara Hanlon

Associate Editor

Originally from West Virginia, Khara began dancing with the Mid-Ohio Valley Ballet Company. Like a lot of dancers, her stage debut was as a baby angel in The Nutcracker. She earned a B.F.A. in Dance Performance from the Boston Conservatory, where she fell in love with Graham, Limón, Nikolais, and Cunningham techniques. She has performed works by Sean Curran, Monica Levy and others. She’s also a member of AFTRA and the Screen Actor’s Guild, having studied at Stella Adler, the T. Schreiber studio, and privately with Peter Kelley. Her all time favorite ballet is Romeo & Juliet.

Hanna Varady

Art Director

Originally from Tucson, AZ, Hanna Varady, received a BA in Anthropology from the University of Arizona before moving to NYC 10 years ago. After attending Parson's School of Design, she has worked in a variety of design-related fields including museum exhibition design, film/TV set production, and magazine design. She has freelanced at publications including Nature Magazine and Self and was the Art Director of the arts and features sections of The New York Sun. Her dance interest started with her debut as a chimney sweep in a fourth-grade production of Mary Poppins. Currently, she takes Simonson and modern classes at Dance New Amsterdam and also does yoga and Pilates.

Siobhan Burke

Education Editor

Originally from Northampton, MA, Siobhan grew up studying traditional Irish dance. She competed in national and world championships throughout high school and began touring with the North American company of Riverdance in 2005. While attending Barnard College of Columbia University, she turned her attention to modern dance, performing in works by Ivy Baldwin, Amanda Loulaki, and David Neumann and joining the Brooklyn-based company Darrah Carr Dance. She also completed internships in the education department of American Ballet Theatre and the press office at Jacob's Pillow. In 2008, Siobhan graduated from Barnard with a B.A. in American Studies and a concentration in dance history, earning honors for her senior thesis on Ted Shawn and the American eugenics movement.

Kina Poon

Assistant Editor

Kina studied ballet at the Ballet San Jose School in San Jose, CA under Lise La Cour and Dennis Nahat, and also trained at the School of American Ballet and American Ballet Theatre. She performed with BSJ as a trainee, dancing in Michael Smuin’s The Tempest and Nahat’s The Nutcracker. She received a B.S. in Biology with a minor in English from UCLA in 2008. She continues to take ballet class around New York City.

Jennifer Stahl

Editor at Large

Jenny studied ballet and jazz at Professional Ballet School in Belmont, CA and also trained with the Joffrey Ballet School and American Ballet Theatre. She danced for Peninsula Ballet Theatre in San Mateo, CA while still in high school. She has also performed in community musical theater productions, including A Christmas Carol and West Side Story. In 2006, she earned a BFA in Dance and Journalism from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She currently dances with and choreographs for Corps Four in Brooklyn.

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