Closing night for JAZZDANCE.

I was sad to read that JAZZDANCE, Danny Buraczeski's wonderful company, is closing its doors [see "Transitions," April issue]. Fortunately, this is a eulogy for the organization and not the man, but it has to be said that Danny (above) is both a wonderful human being and one of the most talented concert-style jazz choreographers This is a list of choreographers A

Paula Abdul
Alvin Ailey
Richard Alston
Robert Alton
Gerald Arpino
Frederick Ashton
Fred Astaire
Lea Anderson

Jean Babilée
George Balanchine

in America America [for Amerigo Vespucci], the lands of the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central (or Middle) America, and South America. The world map published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller is the first known cartographic use of the name. today. He has never strayed from his jazz roots and intentions, but has always continued to grow artistically. Danny's early teachers, such as Ron Forella (probably the most influential and yet forgotten jazz teacher in New York City New York City: see New York, city.

New York City

City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , 1970-1980), made an indelible mark on jazz dance and JAZZDANCE. Any dancer who wants to take serious and intelligent jazz classes while getting a college education, should double-stag leap to Southern Methodist University Southern Methodist University, at Dallas, Tex.; United Methodist; coeducational; chartered 1911. The school's facilities include laboratories for electron microscopy and stable isotopes, a museum of paleontology, and a graduate research center. in Dallas, where Buraczeski has accepted a position as visiting artist.

KATHY ADAMS SALT LAKE CITY, UT

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