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Modern dance

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:

Alfred Brooks Oral History, 2004 February 25

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Identifier: D009.03.0005.00001
Abstract

With the assistance of a former student, Ann Musman Quigley, Alfred Brooks recalls his early years in Kansas City, Mo., and his studies at the Juilliard School. He relates his career with Hanya Holm and her dance troupes, and talks about dancing with Charles Weidman and Doris Humphrey. He taught dance in New York with Holm and later with his wife, Maxine Munt, before moving to Denver.

Dates: 2004 February 25

Alfred Brooks Oral History Transcript, 2004

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Identifier: D009.03.0002.0002.00001
Abstract

With the assistance of a former student, Ann Musman Quigley, Alfred Brooks recalls his early years in Kansas City, Mo., and his studies at the Juilliard School. He relates his career with Hanya Holm and her dance troupes, and talks about dancing with Charles Weidman and Doris Humphrey. He taught dance in New York with Holm and later with his wife, Maxine Munt, before moving to Denver.

Dates: 2004

Ann Marie Blessin Oral History, 2006

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Identifier: D009.05.0005.00009
Abstract Ann Marie Blessin recounts her early years growing up in Scotland and Canada. By the age of 13, Blessin was teaching dance, and was certified to teach Highland dancing as well as tap dancing. Blessin's grandmother wanted her to pursue a career as a nurse so she enrolled in nursing school, but never finished the degree. She talks about teaching tap dancing for the Linkletter/Tauten Dance Studio in Arizona and then in Denver, Colorado. Blessin discusses her involvement in sacred dance that...
Dates: 2006

David Taylor Oral History, 2008

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Identifier: D009.07.0004.00008
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Interview with David Taylor conducted by Michelle O'Bryan Hamel.

Dates: 2008

Deborah Reshotko Oral History, 2017

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Identifier: D009.16.0007.0005.00001

Fran Page Oral History, 2017

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Identifier: D009.16.0007.0004.00001

Gloria Kubel (Winber) Oral History, 2007

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Identifier: D009.06.0005.00011
Abstract Gloria Kubel recounts her early dance training and dance classes at Sarah Lawrence College where she studied under Bessie Schonberg, and guest teachers, Charles Weidman, Alwin Nikolais, Ruth Currier and Kathryn Litz. Her degree was in education but after marrying in 1957 and moving to Denver, Colorado in 1959 she decided to work in the field of dance. Kubel discusses taking classes from and teaching under Rhoda Gersten. She began teaching dance in 1965. In 1971 Rita Berger, the head of the...
Dates: 2007