STUART HODES was Martha Graham’s partner in the 1950s,
has performed in a dozen Broadway musicals, in concerts, on television, in
nightclubs, and in some seventy dances of his own. He has choreographed for musicals, television, film, and for
major modern dance and classical ballet companies. He’s taught at the Martha Graham School, NYC’s High School of the
Performing Arts. He and his wife,
Elizabeth have completed six national tours of their two-character musical
shows, “Dancing on Air with Astaire,” “Our Marlene,” and “Two Americans in
Paris,” and recently premiered “The Sound of Wings,” which they wrote and for
which Stuart wrote four songs. He
dances with younger choreographers, including Stephan Koplowitz, D.J.
MacDonald, and most recently, Victoria Marks.
His articles on dance have appeared in Ballet Review and Arts
Education Policy Review, and his book on choreography, “A Map of Making
Dances,” will soon be published by Ardsley House Press. He is a licensed commercial pilot and
grandfather of five-year-old Matthew.