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First Annual "Gathering" Showcases Vermonters
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Seven Days
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August 20, 2008
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DANCE
Vermont is an Eden for artists - some of them, anyway. Writers and craftspeople happily hole up. With a bit of commuting, actors and opera singers can form communities.
Dancers, however, are in a tough spot - and not just because schools of ballet, modem and jazz don't dot the rural landscape. For anything larger than a solo, dance requires an inventory of able-bodied movers. Also crucial is a space in which to rehearse and perform - a warm place with sound floorboards, preferably within driving distance of an audience.
No one is more familiar with the challenges of dancing in Vermont than Shelley !small, who's been teaching ballet since 1978 from her base in Franklin County. No one, ...