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Dance With Us: Virginia Tanner, Mormonism, and Humphrey's Utah Legacy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2014

Ann Dils  and
Rosalind Pierson
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Dance critic Walter Terry was in the audience the evening of Rosalind Pierson's last, glorious performance with Virginia Tanner's Children's Dance Theatre (CDT). In his review for the New York Herald Tribune of that July 1953 Jacob's Pillow performance, Terry discussed the girls' connections to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, described the outdoor performance setting, the program, and the children as “wonderfully disciplined yet gloriously free in movement.” He concluded his performance description with this paragraph:

Other children have danced such themes and there are other children … who have performed with … far more precociousness of a technical nature but none, I think, have conveyed so perfectly the bright (not pallid) purity of child dance. It is difficult to describe even the most potent intangibles and the best I can do is to say that the children danced as if they had faith in themselves, had love for those of us who were seeing them, actively believed in their God and rejoiced in all of these. (Terry 1953)

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Dance Research Journal , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , Winter 2000 , pp. 7 - 13
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Copyright © Congress on Research in Dance 2001

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