Allen

Dunkel

Allen

Dunkel

Allen

Dunkel

Allen

Dunkel
Allen

Dunkel

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Well, that is good news! There's no doubt that this campus is interested
in the dance, That fact is attested by the cager crowds who attend all
the dance programs appearing heree By the way, I'vo missed the annual
Tau Sigma recital thus far this yoare Miss Dunkel, are you planning any
kind of performance?

Yes, Dre Allen, we are planning to do something which has been on our
calendar for several years, but which ms had to be postponed for lack
of timee In fact, it will partake of the laboratory atmosphere in the
symposiume It is my plan to combine comments on various dance forms
with dances illustrative of the points brought out. Both the girls in
Tau Signa and I have concluded this kind of dance program might be vory
helpful in clarifying the understanding of dance which the average
spectator takos with him when he attends a dance concort,

That is splendid. Do you mean you may be doing a little teaching with
the Tau Sigma recital? Just how will you arrange that sort of program?

Don't misunderstand that I plan to bore an audience to death, They will
see a full half hour or so of actunl dance. But we cxpect to use dances
that are particularly descriptive of the dance forms they will illustrate.
For instance, we will begin with the ballet form. I dare say 9/10 of

the average dance audience hardly knows anything exists but ballete

What we want to do is to contrast the succeeding forms with ballot, so
the spectators will know what to expect from cach forme

Now, when you speak of forms in the dance, Miss Dunkel, do you mean
different kinds of dance like tap, folk, social, and so forth? You sce,
I'm afraid I belong to that 9/10 of the audience you mentioned, but I'm
interested in your plane

Tap, social, and so forth, are dance forms, but in our lecture-recital
we will use only the forms developed in the concert dance field. Those
will be ball et, interpretive, and moderne Every form has its staunch
defenders, and every form has its debunkers. It will be our aim to
present examples of all those forms on the same program, in somewhat the

some mood expressed in the old proverb that "there is same good in the

worst of us, and some bad in the bost of us". So many quostions relat-
ing to this subject are asked me by students, faculty, and townspeople
that I believe such a program will be entertaining and informativee

Not only entertaining and informative, Miss Dunkel - it soumds most
alluringe So much so, in fact, that right now I want to take my pencil
and make a notation on the time and the place of this lectureerecital.
Why, I can visualize the followers of each form of the dance flocking

to this entertainment, And the best part of it will be to see which

form will attract the greatest following. I am enthusiastically interest-
ed, and I wish you would tell me just when the date is, if you have it
sete

Well, I am very sure that it will be the last week in April.
Do you mean on the 27, 28, 29, or 30th?

As I said, it hasn't been definitely set, but it will perhaps be on the
27th or 28th of April.