Who is Marilyn York? How did she get started?
As the artistic director of Dancin Unlimited, Marilyn York has been bringing first class jazz dance to the Washington Metropolitan Area for over thirty years. Her experiences as an artistic director, performer, instructor and choreographer attest to her unwavering resolve. With her keen attention to detail and no-nonsense management style, York devotes herself to improving the quality and visibility of jazz dance. Like many aspiring performers, Yorks interest in dance was first sparked by the charm of classic Gene Kelly films. She began taking dance classes at age eleven in a satellite studio of the Washington Ballet. York studied ballet for nearly six years, until pure chance introduced her to the dance style that would become her passion. When York was seventeen, the Washington Ballet’s main studio offered a jazz master class taught by choreographer Wally Saunders, a Baltimore native. York took the class on a whim, and found that the movement came naturally. After that first fateful
