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Joan Peters: this master of Dunham technique wants dancers to give audiences everything they've got.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-SEP-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Joan Peters: this master of Dunham technique wants dancers to give audiences everything they've got.(teacher's wisdom)(Interview)

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For the past 29 years, Joan Peters has been chairperson For Dunham Technique at The Ailey School in New York City. She is one of only three people approved by Katherine Dunham and The Dunham Institute as a Dunham Certified Instructor and Master Teacher. Peters began dancing at 5 with Syvilla Fort at the Katherine Dunham School of Theatre Dance and taught her first class six years later. She was a company member of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Talley Beatty Dance Company, and has performed on and off-Broadway and in numerous films. Connie Aitcheson took Peters' class recently and asked about her teaching and the Dunham technique.

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