Studio Stories: CANDY BOX Dance Festival special with Joanie Smith- Season 6, Episode 89

Joanie Smith founded Shapiro & Smith Dance in New York City
with husband Danial Shapiro. Smith’s works and their
collaborative works have been commissioned by companies as
diverse as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Repertory
Dance Theater of Salt Lake City, Utah and the PACT Dance Company
of Pretoria, South Africa. S&S Dance has toured all over the
world from Toledo to Tashkent and over 600 dancers in
professional and university dance companies have performed “To
Have And To Hold,” aka, Bench. Smith holds the Barbara Barker
Endowed Chair in Dance and the John Black Johnston Distinguished
Professorship at the University of Minnesota and has an M.A. in
Dance from UCLA.