Sali Ann Kriegsman was executive editor at the American Film Institute, a dance consultant to the Smithsonian Institute, director of the dance program in the National Endowment of the Arts and executive director of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival & School. She is the author of the first documentary of the early years of modern dance, Modern Dance in America: The Bennington Years, and her articles and essays have been published in journals, magazines, newspapers, and reference books. She chaired the Dance Critics Association conference on reconstruction and revivals in 1982, and has lectured at schools, universities, festivals, museums, and community centers across the country and abroad. With Marda Kim, she co-directed the first Colorado Tap Festival in 1986 and she is member of the leadership group at UCLA's National Dance/Media Project. She was associate producer for a portrait of Honi Coles broadcast on the MacNeil Lehrer News Hour, and wrote Savion Glover: In Performance at the White House broadcast on PBS in 1998. Among her recent awards is the 1997 Flo-Berts Award -- shared with Donald O'Connor and Milt Hinton -- for her support to the tap community, and the Preserveration of our Heritage - American Dance Award from Oklahoma City University in March 1999. Kriegsman has a master degree in creative writing and is currently working on independent writing and consulting projects. Her biography is included in the 50th anniversary edition and subsequent editions of Who's Who in America.