Jeff Duncan; Dancer, Choreographer, Teacher

Jeff Duncan, 59, a dancer, choreographer and teacher who founded dance companies in Baltimore and New York. In the mid-1960s, Duncan founded the Dance Theater Workshop, now based at New York’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and directed it for more than 10 years before moving to Baltimore in the late 1970s. At the University of Maryland, Duncan formed the resident Impetus Dance Company. Born in Longview, Tex., Duncan studied with such dancers as Robert Joffrey, Doris Humphrey, Betty Jones, Jose Limon, Anna Sokolow and Alwin Nickolais. He performed with the Juilliard Dance Ensemble as Humphrey’s assistant, appeared in Broadway shows and joined the New Dance Group with Sokolow in the mid-1950s before starting on his own. In Baltimore on May 26 of the complications of AIDS.