Article: TRANSITIONS.(Brief Article)(Obituary)

EDNA DIEMAN, a teacher-choreographer whose staged productions included a Hindu version of Swan Lake, died Sept. 22, just two days short of her ninety-sixth birthday, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Dieman and Julia Bennett established their dance studio in Cedar Rapids in 1951, followed by its resident dance company, the Dieman-Bennett Dance Theater of the Hemispheres. Their production of The Nutcracker at Cedar Rapids' Paramount Theater from 1972 until the mid- 1980s became a holiday tradition, but Dieman was also known for staging productions of Sleeping Beauty and Hansel and Gretel. Dieman and Bennett taught ethnic dance and classical ballet in their academy of dance for more ...

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