Arthur Aviles ’87 Remembers His Teacher Aileen Passloff
Aileen Passloff and dancers at the 92nd Street Y, New York City, 2019. Photo by Arthur Avilés
“Aileen exhibited tenderness toward this queer Puerto Rican boy/man from the mean streets of Jamaica, Queens, and the Bronx. Once, after I performed a dance I’d choreographed, she gently said, ‘Come here, Beauty.’ (She called all her students Beauty.),” writes Aviles. “Aileen possessed a beautiful mix of tenderness and wackiness that reminded me of dance pieces she created which evolved into series of movements that depicted the fantastical worlds that she loved to conjure, worlds of powerful beauty and strong grace.”
Post Date: 12-15-2020
Post Date: 12-15-2020