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…
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…
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…
Dance Kaleidoscope: A Personal History
It was an article in the LA Times about the state of dance in1988 and a comment from post modern choreographer Rudy Perez that first made me focus on the importance of the then defunct Dance Kaleidoscope Festival. Mr. Perez…
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