Lenore Latimer (1935–2012)

[Excerpted from 2013 spring Bardian magazine]

Lenore Latimer, 77, visiting professor of dance at Bard for 36 years, dancer, choreographer, and inspirational teacher, died on September 26, 2012, after a long illness. She majored in dance at the University of Wisconsin and earned her B.A. from Juilliard. She studied choreography with Doris Humphrey and Louis Horst—two of the first to teach it as a discipline—and began ballet with Antony Tudor at Juilliard. She danced with the José Limón Dance Company, American Dance Theater at Lincoln Center, Valerie Bettis Dancers Foundation, and was a guest artist in Bonn, Germany, and Tuscany, Italy. She formed Latitudes Ltd.—The Lenore Latimer Dance Company in 1979 and served as artistic director until 1983. She began teaching at Bard in 1976 and continued until the last semester before her death. Her works have been produced by the American Dance Festival, International Dance Workshop, Dance Theater Workshop, and Symphony Space, among others. She was artist in residence at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; University of Iowa; American University, Washington, D.C.; and Washington University, St. Louis. One devoted Bard student commented, “Old enough to do whatever she wants, and fabulous.”

Post Date: 09-26-2012