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Article: OBITUARIES.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- September 1, 1999
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Helen Priest Rogers, 85, cofounder of the Dance Notation Bureau and a pioneer in dance film archiving, died March 2, 1999, in West Brattleboro, Vermont.
In the 1930s Helen Priest danced in the Martha Graham Company. At Graham's suggestion, she went to Germany to study dance notation with Rudolf Laban, and on her return cofounded the Dance Notation Bureau with Ann Hutchinson (Guest), Janey Price (Goeb), and Eve Gentry (Henrietta Greenwood). Rogers remained active in the world of dance notation throughout her life.
Rogers's interest in dance documentation led her in the 1950s and 1960s to film dance at the Connecticut College summer dance festival, now ...