Dance Magazine

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Dance Magazine
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Maria Tallchief and Erik Bruhn on the front cover of Dance Magazine, July 1961
Editor-in-Chief Caitlin Sims
Categories Dance
FrequencyMonthly
PublisherDanceMedia
First issueJune 1927;97 years ago (1927-06) (as The American Dancer)
CountryUnited States
Based inNew York City, New York, U.S.
LanguageEnglish
Website www.dancemagazine.com
ISSN 0011-6009

Dance Magazine is an American trade publication for dance published by the Macfadden Communications Group. It was first published in June 1927 as The American Dancer. [1] Dance Magazine has multiple sister publications, including Pointe , Dance Spirit, Dance Teacher, The Dance Edit. Dance Magazine was owned by Macfadden Communications Group from 2001 to 2016 when it was sold to Frederic M. Seegal, an investment banker with the Peter J. Solomon Company. [2] [3] [4] [5]

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Editors

The first editor and publisher was Ruth Eleanor Howard. Sometime in the 1930s, Paul R. Milton took over as editor. In 1942, the magazine was purchased by Rudolf Orthwine. Lydia Joel became the editor in 1952. In 1970, William Como replaced her, and he was the editor-in-chief until his death in 1989. Richard Philp was the editor-in-chief from 1989 to 1999. Janice Berman took over from Philip late in 1999. Wendy Perron was editor-in-chief from 2004 to 2013. [2] [3] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

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