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Article: The ABCs of dance. (dance renaissance on college campuses)
- Article from:
- Ebony
- Article date:
- March 1, 1992
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DANCE. From the Cakewalk to the Charleston to tap and the Twist, American dance is, in Large part, a gift of Black America.
Thanks to a surge of academic interest, that gift is alive and well on American college campuses, where daring Black dance directors are creating collaborative programs that link jazz and classical ballet and town and gown.
Brown University's Julie Adams Strandberg, for example, has collaborated with the community-based Dance Alliance of Providence, R.I., to give students greater exposure to professional teachers. In another cooperative venture, Sandra Burton, head of the Williams College dance program, organized a joint concert ...