Remembering Donna Maytham
Arts & Culture
SRQ DAILY FRIDAY WEEKEND EDITION
FRIDAY AUG 1, 2025 |
The Sarasota arts community lost an icon this week – Donna Maytham. A classically trained dancer who co-founded the Richmond (VA) Ballet in 1957, Donna and her husband Walter moved to Sarasota in 1996 and played an integral role in the Friends of the Sarasota Ballet and the Carreño Dance Festival. Many were privileged to be mentored by Donna over the years as members of her Ballet Book Clubs, most recently reincarnated as the Arts Advocates Ballet Club. From its earliest years, Donna was a staunch supporter of the Sarasota Cuban Ballet School and provided scholarships for many young dancers. Donna often expressed that she considered Sarasota Cuban Ballet Artistic Director Ariel Serrano to be one of the finest teachers of male ballet students in the country.
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