Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knew all along I needed to stay on one more year," Peck says. "My goal was to make it a self-perpetuating student organization...
...guiding philosophy behind Citystep has not changed. Peck developed the idea as a collaboration between dance and teaching. "It's getting kids to express what it's like growing up in a city through movement and drama," she says...
While many observers thought Citystep would collapse when Peck left, the group is flourishing. "The reason the thing has succeeded is that it has artistic validity," says Myra A. Mayman, director of the Office of the Arts...
...feel like [Peck's] are big shoes, but I feel like we're filling them very well," says Shannon...
Since the all-volunteer program started, funding has been one of Citystep's biggest obstacles, Peck says. She spent the summer of 1984 trying to get the project off the ground, getting approval from Cambridge public schools and getting public funding to run the $15,000-a-year program. Because of budget cutbacks, Citystep received only minimal assistance from the Cambridge school system...