Word: fanger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years we've brought people here that have no other way of getting to Boston," says Director of the Dance Center Iris M. Fanger. This summer David Gordon and the Pick-Up Company will perform in late July and Remy Charlip will dance a New England Premier Concert the following weekend...
...accident that the teachers of the Summer Dance Center receive such rave reviews from their students. Fanger attributes a 20 percent rise in enrollment this year to the excellence of her teaching staff. She says that while she "doesn't have anyone like Baryshnikov," she hires faculty members "for the quality of their teaching and the kind of work they're doing professionally...
Many of the faculty are New-York based and Fanger, a noted dance historian and critic who writes for the Boston Herald, says she makes several trips to New York each year to help her cull her 17-member faculty. Lucinda Childs, head of the Lucinda Childs Dance Company, David Gordon, head of the Pick Up Company and Remy Charlip are among this year's noted teachers...
...Fanger adds that she keeps abreast of the latest styles in professional dance and attempts to have the classes mirror those trends. "I try to keep current with what the interests are in the dance world at large--post-modernism has become a great cry," she says. Accordingly, the Center has begun offering classes with post-modernist teachers and has sponsored an exhibit in post-modern dance which is presently showing at Widener Library...
While almost all of the classes emphasize technique, which can be as individualistic as this style, Fanger says that "the basis of the work here is to expand what dance is." She adds, "We teach every class as if people were going on to the stage. The bias is prepared towards public performance...