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Article: May O'Donnell: Modern Dance Pioneer.(Book review)
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- April 1, 2006
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May O'Donnell: Modern Dance Pioneer By Marian Horosko. Foreword by Jennifer Dunning. University Press of Florida, 2005, 136 pages. Illustrated. $21. www.upf.com
The essence of May O'Donnell's long career (she died in 2004 at the age of 97,) was not so much her own choreography as the roles she performed in the Martha Graham repertoire. She was a calming influence. During moments of anguish or indecision in works like Herodiade, Cave of the Heart, or Dark Meadow, she could quell the storm simply by being watchfully still.
In her appreciation of O'Donnell and in the secondary details about the dancer's husband, composer Ray Green, who created most of the ...
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Article: Festival honors dance pioneer.(Capital Region)
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... ... Coordinator for the Saratoga County Arts Council, will perform at a dance festival Saturday and Sunday honoring American dance pioneer Ruth St. Denis. Dolan will perform two dances and conduct an interpretive dance workshop. For the past two years, she ...
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