Directors
The documentary is being realized by a three-person creative team of Maria Ramas, Kate Johnson and Michael Masucci.

Maria Ramas
Producer, Writer, Director

Maria Ramas is trained as an historian and holds a M.A. and C. Phil. in
European History from the University of California at Los Angeles,
where she currently serves as the director for film and oral history
projects. Her articles on history and psychoanalysis have appeared in
prestigious journals and have been anthologized in collections along
with psychoanalytic writers such as Erich Fromm and Juliet Mitchell and
feminist writers such as Sally Alexander, Barbara Taylor and Catherine
Hall. She is a published poet and songwriter. Her 1968 album for
Columbia Records, Ismeme-Jasmine is considered an underground classic.
She is currently producing a documentary for UCLA on the history of
underrepresented student movements at UCLA and the impact they have
had on the complexion, canon and culture of the University.

Trained as an academic, Ms. Ramas is well versed in research and
scholarly writing. At the same time, as Mia Slavenska’s daughter,
growing up in the ballet world of the 1950s and 1960s allowed her to
experience in an intimate and personal way the artistry of the great
ballet and modern dancers of her mother’s era. She has first-hand
knowledge of Mia Slavenska’s aesthetics and ideas about dance and
movement.