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- ↑ Liner notes for The Gait Keeper.
- ↑ "Rufus Reid - Terrestrial Dance".
- ↑ "2005 Living Legacy Award Winner: Rufus Reid", Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, backed up by the Internet Archive as of August 20, 2008. Accessed November 29, 2017. "Rufus Reid was born in Atlanta, Georgia and raised in Sacramento, California and currently resides in Teaneck, New Jersey."
- ↑ "William Paterson University Senate Minutes". Archived from the original on 2006-09-01. Retrieved 2008-08-16.
- ↑ The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Archived 2008-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
