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A shift in the whirlwind at Butler University: dance head Stephan Laurent steps down.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-SEP-03
Format: Online - approximately 895 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A shift in the whirlwind at Butler University: dance head Stephan Laurent steps down.(Michelle Jarvis will replace chair of dance school while he is on sabbatical)

Article Excerpt
What dance frontiers remain for Stephan Laurent to explore? The longtime chairman of Indianapolis's Butler University dance department has decided to investigate the possibilities. After fifteen years as head of the respected department, Laurent stepped down at the end of August. He is succeeded by Michelle Jarvis, a Buffer graduate and faculty member. Following a one-semester sabbatical, Laurent will resume teaching at Butler as a faculty professor.

Swiss born Laurent, 55, first charted new territory when he left a successful ballet career in Europe, where he danced with Scapino Ballet of Amsterdam and other companies, to earn a dance degree in the U.S. "I would have felt stultified just being a dancing machine," he says. "I wanted to grow as a person and a dancer and there simply weren't any academic dance programs...

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