Do any of Mt. Lebo people remember Debra's "wonderful" Renaissance dance in Mrs. Adamson's AP English class while Janet Genstein played the harp? She hopes not! 

But she would like to have Pittsburgh-y vibes watching the show September 10.

Classmate Debra Levine, a dance critic for the Los Angeles Times and The Huffington Post, will appear on Turner Classic Movies Monday Night ~ September 10, 2012 ~ 8 pm Eastern / 5 pm Pacific ~ co-hosting an evening of dance movies with Robert Osborne. 

Here's a sneak preview:  http://youtu.be/cO2Q8cJOLts

Former modern dancer Debra Levine, a graduate of the City University of New York, is a Los Angeles arts writer specialized in dance.

She blogs about film and dance at artsmeme.com

The Pittsburgh native has lived in New York, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tel Aviv, nurturing her arts passion in all cities. Her criticism and feature writing are published in the Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, Dance Magazine.

Levine’s significant writing about Jack Cole includes:

• Jack Cole, just published as part of the Washington, DC based Dance Heritage Coalition’s 100 American Dance Treasures online dance history encyclopedia

• Jack Cole, Master Choreographer, The Huffington Post, 8/19/2010

• Jack Cole Made Marilyn Monroe Move, Los Angeles Times, 8/9/2009

Levine spoke about Jack Cole at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival’s 2010 symposium on the choreographer.

She was a:

o Scholar in Residence at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in 2011

o Fellow at the NEA Classical Music & Opera Institute at Columbia University in New York

o Fellow at the NEA Dance Criticism Institute at the American Dance Festival at Duke University

In August 2009 she led the successful grassroots campaign to save the 40 year running classic film program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

Grants from the Cecil B. DeMille Foundation and Elizabeth Levitt Hirsch have supported Debra’s research into Los Angeles dance history.