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Article: Five college dance department: turns 25.(Teach-Learn Connection: Take 5)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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NE MORNING last fall at Smith College's Scott Gym, 20 students dressed in all manner of shredded T-shirt-dancer-chic were engrossed in an intermediate modern dance class led by Mark Allan Davis. A former member of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and the Broadway cast of The Lion King, Davis started the class with Pilates and yoga stretches, then moved to the barre for a series of ballet-inspired exercises. He finished 90 minutes later in allegro leaps across the floor. Musician Mike Vargas added drums to his piano accompaniment, as well as a xylophone and bells wound around his ankles.
While this class could have taken place at any college, this particular ...