What is Sally Banes?
{{Infobox writer|name=Sally Banes|image=Sally Banes.jpg|birth_date=9 October 1950|death_date={{death date and age |2020|06|14 |1950|10|09 |df=yes}}}} '''Sally Rachel Banes''' (October 9, 1950 &ndash; June 14, 2020) was an American [[dance history|dance historian]], writer, and [[dance criticism|critic]].<ref name='NYU'>{{cite web |url=http://performance.tisch.nyu.edu/object/ps_alum_banes.html |title=Sally Banes |access-date=April 1, 2009 |archive-date=October 10, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010162253/http://www.performance.tisch.nyu.edu/object/ps_alum_banes.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name='BeforeBetweenBeyond'>{{cite book | last = Banes | first = Sally | title = Before, between, and beyond | url = https://archive.org/details/beforebetweenbey0000bane | url-access = registration | publisher = University of Wisconsin Press | location = Madison | year = 2007 | isbn = 978-0-299-22154-6 }}</ref> She was born in [[Silver Spring, Maryland]]. == Career == Banes first worked for the ''[[Chicago Reader]]'' starting in 1973. She was a dance critic for the ''[[Village Voice]]'', ''[[SoHo Weekly News]]'' and ''[[Dance Magazine]].'' She worked as an editor for the ''[[Dance Research Journal]]'' from 1982 to 1988. Banes died on June 14, 2020 from [[ovarian cancer]] in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]] at the age of 69.<ref>[https://www.dancemagazine.com/sally-banes-2646190826.html In Memoriam: Sally Banes, A New Kind of Dance Writer (1950-2020)]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Banes, Sally}} [[Category:1949 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:American critics]] [[Category:American historians]] [[Category:American dancers]] [[Category:Writers from Maryland]] [[Category:People from Silver Spring, Maryland]] [[Category:Dance critics]] {{US-bio-stub}}