Dance Events for the 1984 Olympic Arts Festival
Sharon Took-Zozaya writes about her work as an Assistant to the Executive Director of the Olympics Dance Festival. 1984 Olympic Arts Festival Dance Component (Hereafter referred to as Olympics Dance Festival) The citywide arts festival which preceded the Los Angeles…
Dance at the Music Center: A Brief History
Renae Williams is the Director of Programming for the series Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center, Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County. In this article, she provides a history of dance events (from 1966 to the present)…
John Martin at UCLA 1965-1970
In the formative years of Modern Dance during the late 1920’s to 1940, John Martin was the most influential dance critic in America, writing for the New York Times from 1927- 1962. He received his By-Line in 1930 after he…
UCLA Department of Dance From 1960-1990
There are as many histories of the Department of Dance at UCLA as there are students that have passed through the program and faculty who were an integral part of the program. What follows is one point of view that…
The DHP Image Gallery
The following photos highlight the various genres and periods of dance in Southern California. This feature is currently being reworked. Please check back again. Click an image for a full screen view.
Rudy Perez – I Could Have Gone Bowling
The following is based on an interview with Fred Strickler I videotaped, April 22, 2012, during Rudy’s class and rehearsal. For two hours he effortlessly shifted from memory to teaching to creativity, talking about his life and work while giving…
Notes on The Tap Renaissance
In January, 1979, the Jazz Tap Ensemble was created by three dancers and three musicians: Lynn Dally, Camden Richman and Fred Strickler; Paul Arlanian, pianist, Tom Dannenberg, guitarist, and Keith Terry, percussionist. They made their debut at Pacific Motion Dance…
Dancing With the UCLA Dance Faculty
In Part 1 of this article, Choreographer/Dancer/Educator Sharon Took-Zozaya recalls her studies with several members of the UCLA Dance Department Faculty from 1972 to 1975 as an undergraduate student, and during her graduate studies in Kinesiology between 1977-1978. In Part…
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