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Article Excerpt
IF ANYONE can be in two places at once, it's Marianne Handy Hraibi. Determined to see the Martha Graham Dance Company perform in New York City on May 9, 2002, she was also scheduled to teach dance classes at the St. Johnsbury Academy in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.
Hraibi knew that if the Graham Company lost its court case, the performance might be the final appearance of the last few dancers coached directly by Martha Graham. Her solution? Take the St. Johnsbury Academy students to New York with her--all one hundred of them. She raised $10,000 in donations from the Academy, the students, the community, and her family, and on May 9, she and her high school students bused to New York, saw the concert, and fire next day attended a master class with Stuart Hodes, longtime teacher al...
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