Horton Hubbub.Regarding the comment that placed Milton Myers, a Horton teacher, in the jazz category ("Curtain Up," July): Please investigate the ideology and technique of Lester Horton Lester Horton (January 23, 1906 - November 2, 1953) was an American dancer, choreographer, and teacher. Lester Horton was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. Choosing to work in California (three thousand miles away from the center of modern dance - New York City), Horton if you feel that it was generated as a jazz dance idiom. It was a rich and varied technique with many threads of the dance world incorporated into it: jazz, modern, contemporary, and traditional. However, from my long relationship with Bella Lewitzky Bella Lewitzky (January 13, 1916 in Los Angeles, California - July 16, 2004 in Pasadena, California) was a modern dance choreographer and noted teacher. Born to Russian immigrants, Lewitzky spent her childhood in a utopian socialist colony in the Mojave Desert, and on a , Newell Taylor Reynolds, Rudi Guernrich, James Mitchell James Mitchell may be: Arts, entertainment, and sports:
prep. Taking into consideration or account; including. those terms. DIANA MACNEIL ARTISTIC DIRECTOR POSTHOUSE DANCE GROUP LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Wendy Perron Per´ron n. 1. (Arch.) An out-of-door flight of steps, as in a garden, leading to a terrace or to an upper story; - usually applied to mediævel or later structures of some architectural pretensions. replies: Thank you for the clarification. Milton Myers has been on the faculty of The School at Jacob's Pillow for 19 summers, some of that time as a Horton teacher in the modern dance program, and other times as a choreographer in the jazz program. In the mid-1980s, when I was active at the Pillow, Milton taught in what was then called the "Modern/Jazz Workshop," which may account for my confusion. |
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