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Article: MEMORIAL FOR ELIZABETH SHERBON.(American dancer and dance instructor)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
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- Dance Magazine
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- March 1, 2001
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Tributes from Jean Erdman, Bill Evans and Bella Lewitzky were among those read at a memorial celebration for Elizabeth Sherbon, a former member of the Martha Graham and the Jean Erdman dance companies. She co-founded the American Dance Symposia (1968-1972), which the National Endowment for the Arts called the "most innovative and important summer program to surface since Bennington."
Sherbon was 92 when she died June 7. The memorial celebration took place November 4 at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, where she was a professor of dance from 1961 to 1975.
Sherbon attended Denishawn in 1931 and Bennington in Vermont during the summers of 1934 and ...