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Douglas Nielsen teacher's wisdom.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-JUN-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Douglas Nielsen teacher's wisdom.(This Month)(Interview)

Article Excerpt
Douglas Nielsen came to dance late, at the age of 23. But he moved rapidly into the professional world, dancing with Gus Solomons, Pearl Lang, and Paul Sanasardo in New York, and Batsheva Dance Company in Israel. He created Douglas Nielsen Dances in 1982. He has been teaching modern dance around the world since 1973, and under the auspices of the American Dance Festival since 1987. Now a professor at the University of Arizona School of Dance, ADF honors him this June with the Balasaraswati/Joy Ann Dewey Beinecke Chair for Distinguished Teaching. Margaret Regan spoke to Nielsen about his approach to teaching.

How WOULD YOU SUM UP YOUR TEACHING PHILOSOPHY? Get people to relax, trust the atmosphere, and make huge mistakes. Seriousness is balanced by playfulness. I'm older than the dancers' dads, and they can't imagine their dads doing...

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