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Teacher's wisdom: Gerri Houlihan.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-MAY-05 		Format: Online - approximately 930 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Teacher's wisdom: Gerri Houlihan.(THIS MONTH)(Interview)

Article Excerpt
A former dancer with Lar Lubovitch's company, Gerri Houlihan is renowned for her fluid fusion of modern and ballet techniques that serves today's contemporary dancers. Houlihan trained with Antony Tudor and Jose Limon at the Juilliard School. For the last 20 summers, she has taught modern dance at the American Dance Festival at Duke University. This summer, she will receive ADF's Balasaraswati/Joy Ann Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching. Joseph Carman talked with Houlihan about phrasing, placement, and patience.

THE DANCERS DON'T WORK AT THE BARRE IN YOUR CLASS. HOW DID YOU FORMULATE YOUR WARM-UP, WHICH BEGINS ON THE FLOOR AND INCORPORATES BALLET VOCABULARY? When I first started teaching modern, I did a sort of Sanasardo/Limon/Lubovitch barre and then came to the center. The more I taught, I realized that I often was teaching a modern class...

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