2020 Tribute: Dancers we lost this year

This was a year that took a great many beloved dancers. Join us on this final day of a very memorable year as we celebrate their lives and the joy they brought audiences around the world.

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Sally Banes (1950–2020) — Check out profile in Today in Dance

Laneeka Barksdale — Detroit ballroom dancer (one of many who succumbed to COVID in the ballroom dance community of Detroit)

Virginia Bosler — Dancer in Oklahoma! (movie-1955)

Donald Bradburn — Dancer and photographer for Dance Magazine

Wilhelm Burmann — Revered ballet teacher at Steps on Broadway

Don “Campbellock” Campbell — Creator of the locking technique in hip-hop funk dance

Marge Champion (1919–2020) — Check out profile in Today in Dance

Tony Charmoli — Director of TV dance programs, including The Nutcracker (1977)

Nick Cordero — Star of Broadway musical Bullets over Broadway (2014)

Othella Dallas — Danced with Katherine Dunham’s company

Astad Deboo — Indian contemporary dancer/choreographer

Norma Doggett — Appeared in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) movie

El Príncipe Gitano — Flamenco singer/dancer

Joyce Ellis — Dancer and children’s advocate

Jean Erdman — Danced with Martha Graham and married to Joseph Campbell

Nikolai Fadeyechev — Ballet dancer with the Bolshoi and trained dancers

Marta C. Gonzales — Ballet dancer and Alzheimer’s patient featured in viral video