READERS' FORUM.THANKS FOR INCLUSIVE COVERAGE Hooray for the articles on National Tap Dance Day ["How Tap Got Its Day," Dance Magazine, May, page 56], the Tony Awards [Dance Theater The German Tanztheater ("dance theatre") grew out of German expressionist dance. Its most influential performers are Pina Bausch and Susanne Linke. , "Empty Chair at the Tony Awards," July, page 28], "From Africa to Avant-Garde" [June, page 70], etc. Thanks for recognizing America's contribution to dance, which includes ballet and modern dance but encompasses much more. I am a ballet dancer who has always been a fan of tap, jazz, and musical theater dance. Your inclusive coverage brings respect and historical significance to these American dance arts. Recognition is important to dancers' morale and the health of any dance style. Thanks for including tap, jazz, musical theater, film, and video dance in our recorded history Recorded history can be defined as history that has been written down or recorded by the use of language, whereas history is a more general term referring simply to information about the past.[1] It starts in the 4th millennium BC, with the invention of writing. . Jo Rowan Norman, Oklahoma CHEERS FOR HONORING HAMBLIN We applaud your decision to honor Barbara Hamblin with the story about her career [The Teach-Learn Connection, Dance Magazine, June, page 66]. In the early 1980s, long before it was popular and because of Barbie Barbie in full Barbara Millicent Roberts A plastic doll, 11.5 in. (29 cm) tall, with the figure of an adult woman that was introduced in 1959 by Mattel, Inc., a southern California toy company. Hamblin's visionary 1. visionary - One who hacks vision, in the sense of an Artificial Intelligence researcher working on the problem of getting computers to "see" things using TV cameras. (There isn't any problem in sending information from a TV camera to a computer. nature, the University of Utah The University of Utah (also The U or the U of U or the UU), located in Salt Lake City, is the flagship public research university in the state of Utah, and one of 10 institutions that make up the Utah System of Higher Education. established a dance-medicine clinic. It began in a closet in the men's locker Things commonly known as lockers include:
Gayanne Grossman, PT Tom Welsh, Ph.D. University of Utah Dance Science Alumni Bethlehem, Pennsylvania ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Special thanks to former Art Director Shawn Raecke for his invaluable help in designing portions of the September issue and to Photo Assistant Julian Becerra for his help in preparing the August cover. |
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