A noteworthy project.(Hofstra University, Jean Erdman Dance Notation Project)(Brief article)

Dance Magazine | January 1, 2007| | Copyright

The fall concert at Hofstra University brought past to present, preserving modern dance history with the Jean Erdman Dance Notation Project.

Nancy Allison, a New York dancer, choreographer, and educator, staged three of Erdman's early works on Hofstra dancers: Daughters of the Lonesome Isle (1945), which she had performed with Erdman in 1977; and two solos, Hamadryad (1948), and Creature on a Journey (1943) that Allison had performed and widely toured. "I fell in love with the repertoire from my first experience of it," Allison says. She also performed the solos in Dance & ...

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