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Martha Myers.


American Dance Festival The American Dance Festival is a six-week summer festival of modern dance performances, and a school for dance currently held at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.  dean emeritus MARTHA MYERS received an honorary doctoral degree from Virginia Commonwealth University Formed by a merger between the Richmond Professional Institute and the Medical College of Virginia in 1968, VCU has a medical school that is home to the nation's oldest organ transplant program. . Myers, who is a noted teacher of composition, began her dance studies in Richmond and attended Richmond Professional Institute, which eventually became VCU VCU Virginia Commonwealth University
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 in 1968 during the period the Festival was hosted by Connecticut College, where she founded the dance department. She traces her dance lineage back to Hanya Holm, Doris Humphrey, and Merce Cunningham.
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Title Annotation:TEACH-LEARN CONNECTION
Publication:Dance Magazine
Article Type:Brief article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jun 1, 2006
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