Sandra Lynn Baldwin

November 14, 1951 - May 26, 2020

Sandra Lynn Baldwin November 14, 1951 - May 26, 2020 Sandy was born and raised in Memphis, TN. She began her training as a dancer there, and went on to be awarded scholarships to the Banff School of fine Arts, the School of American Ballet in New York, the Craft of Choreography Conference, and the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, where, as a freshman, she became a dancer with the Cincinnati Ballet Company. Her professional performing career continued with the Memphis Ballet, the Maryland Ballet, Opryland USA, and the Oregon Ballet Theater. She was on the faculty of the Atlantic Foundation for the Performing Arts in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, followed by a year on the faculty of the Milwaukee Ballet. Then she was back to Memphis as a director/choreographer. In 1983, she moved to Portland, Oregon where she both performed and worked as a rehearsal director and Education Services Coordinator for the Oregon Ballet Theater. In 1986 she joined the faculty of Reed College in Portland, in addition to her work with the Oregon Ballet Theater. In 1994-95 she was on the Guest Faculty of St. Paul School in Concord, N.H. She has restaged many ballets in cities too numerous to list. Through all these travels, her beautiful smile, her utter lack of pretense and her unique sense of humor won her a great many extraordinary life-long friends. She was unfailingly kind and completely honest and open. She is irreplaceable and will be missed by all who had the great fortune of being part of her life.