Jeff Slayton Recognized by Leading Membership Organization
Jeff Slayton has been a professional dancer and choreographer for over 40 years.


LONG BEACH, CA, May 30, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Jeff Slayton, Choreographer, Author and Teacher, has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for showing dedication, leadership and excellence in all aspects of performing arts.

Born in Richmond, Virginia, Jeff Slayton has been a professional dancer and choreographer for over 40 years. In 1972, he shared a gold medal with ex-wife Viola Farber at the Ninth International Dance Festival at Paris in France for creativity and expression. He also received several grants for choreography from the National Endowment for the Arts and served as a panelist for the dance touring program of the California Arts Council for two years and for the dance touring program of the National Endowment for the Arts for one year. Once named a "Modern Dance Icon" by Los Angeles Times critic Louis Segal, he also taught and choreographed for soloists, university and college dance department students, and at dance festivals throughout the United States, Europe, South America and Korea. He served on the dance faculty of the American Dance Festival at Durham in North Carolina from 1988 to 1996. His first book, "The Prickly Rose: A Biography of Viola Farber," was released in December 2006 by AuthorHouse Inc. He was influenced to become a dancer when one of his teachers told him about the dance program at Adelphi University.

Currently, Mr. Slayton works as a part-time professor at California State University, Long Beach, from which he is retired as a faculty member and tenured full professor. He is also choreographing "Inventory" for the Los Angeles-based Sarah Swenson & Vox Dance Theater and for the Fort Worth Contemporary Dance Company. He is currently writing his second book, which is going to be a biography about his career, his battle with depression and how dancing saved his life. Mr. Slayton resides in Long Beach, California.

Mr. Slayton is a Master Teacher. He is affiliated with the Dance Resource Center of Greater Los Angeles and the American College Dance Festival Association, and serves as a Board Member of Long Beach Dance Inc. In 1991, he was honored with the Outstanding Professor in Teaching Award from California State University, Long Beach.

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