Friends of the Carson-Brierly Dance Library scrapbook, 1995 June-1996 Aug.

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Friends of the Carson-Brierly Dance Library scrapbook, 1995 June-1996 Aug.

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Scrapbook of the Friends of the Carson-Brierly Dance Library in Denver, Colorado. Contains information on the organization and dance (mainly in the Denver area) from June 1995 through August 1996 in the form of newspaper and magazine clippings, fliers, brochures, programs, correspondence, meeting minutes, membership rosters, photographs of members, notes, recipes, and newsletters. Includes coverage of the David Taylor Dance Theatre, Colorado Ballet, Duquesne University Tamburitzans, and dancer and choreographer Cleo Parker Robinson.

1 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

University of Denver, University Libraries, Anderson Academic Commons

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University of Denver, University Libraries, Anderson Academic Commons

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Friends of the Carson-Brierly Dance Library.

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Compiled by Florence Axton, historian for the Friends of the Carson-Brierly Dance Library. The Friends of the library provided partial financial support to the dance library, and sponsored dance programs and related events in Denver, Colorado. Library founded in 1972 at the Colorado Women's College by Justin W. Brierly in memory of Martha Faure Carson, a dance teacher in Denver, to provide a reference and research collection for the Rocky Mountain region covering all aspects of dance. Library na...

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At the heart of the term "souvenir" is the desire "to remember." The desire, however, is tied to a physical object - a seashell recalling an ocean, pressed leaves of a visit home, a ticket stub of an evening in the theater. These are keys to trigger memory. Souvenirs have been a part of human endeavor, one suspects, since before recorded history, a chance to touch time itself by capturing a moment in a significant object. Mourners used to clip a lock of hair, or lop off ...

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Denver native Cleo Parker Robinson was born on July 17, 1948. She almost died at age ten when her kidneys shut down and a segregated Dallas hospital did not admit her quickly enough to prevent heart failure. A doctor told her she would remain bedridden her entire life, but Robinson refused to believe that. She threw herself into dancing in order to overcome the pain of her body and the racism she faced. Today, she is the executive artistic director and choreographer of the Cleo Parker Robinson D...

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Duquesne University. Tamburitzans

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