The New York Baroque Dance Co.

Dear Friends,

It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of Sandra Noll Hammond on September 13, 2025. As a specialist in early ballet (only one of her areas of study) we were privileged to work with her. She was a guest for three summers at the NYBDC Santa Barbara Baroque Dance Workshop(link to video archive) as well as Historical Dance at Play. At the SBBDW she taught our students ballet technique ranging from the late 18th century into the early 19th century.

In 2013, as a gesture in gratitude, I set up a website for Sandra, hoping her students could help her post and write updates about her work. With the website Sandra would have an online presence… very much lacking for this brilliant artist whose career was more in the 20th century. We were, in fact , contacted by the Basque Cultural Institute asking to include a video of her work in their exhibit, “Soka,” focused on basque dance. The exhibit took place in Biarritz (2015-09-10 – 2015-10-11 – Northern Basque country – France) and traveled to Donostia – Southern Basque country (Spain) in February 2016. We believe it also traveled to Paris and Barcelona in 2017. 

Sandra’s website also allowed for former students to get in touch with her and to share comments on the Website.

To learn more about the work of Sandra, Wickipedia has a lovely entry: Sandra Noll Hammond

Most sincerely yours,

Catherine Turocy