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"American Dance Awards started small," remembers Rhee Gold about one of the first major dance competitions that grew into a giant in the field. And now, in spite of its success, he has just sold the family business.
In 1973, Sherry Gold was operating a dance school and a small showcase workshop from her Randolph, Massachusetts, basement. In 1979, Gold, and her dancing twin sons, Rhee and Rennie organized a competitive showcase to raise money for costumes for their performing company. It was such a success that it became the school's primary fund-raiser for the next three or four years. "There were very few competitions at that time," says Gold.
Rhee produced events in Portland and later in Pittsburgh. The Gold family had long been members of New England Dance Masters and the national Dance Masters of America, but Rhee says he was fired as a master teacher by the Pittsburgh DMA chapter because his competition was viewed as a "conflict of interest" with DMA.
"It was my first taste of political controversy," remembers the dark-haired, carefully groomed, now...
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