Nancy Lima Dent - Sudbury & Garson, Recreation Department, Mine Mill Union

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Nancy Lima Dent - Sudbury & Garson, Recreation Department, Mine Mill Union

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Dent's documents from her work with Sudbury and Garson and the Ontario Recreation Department, Mine Mills Union Part I. Attendance journal, handwritten notes, house programs, newspaper clippings.

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Nancy Lima Dent 39 (caption from virtual exhibit)
Some of Nancy’s younger charges at the 1956 Garson recital.
Photo: James Linney

Nancy Lima Dent 40 (caption from virtual exhibit)
This photo of Sudbury students in 1956 illustrates the mixture of modern, folk and ballet Nancy taught in her schools.

Nancy Lima Dent 41 (caption from virtual exhibit)
At the Sudbury recital of 1957, Nancy’s Advanced students presented a work titled “The Sorcerer”. Standing at the back as the Sorcerer is Tini Pel. Pel would continue Nancy’s work founding the Sudbury Arts Guild and the Nickel Belt Ballet Company.

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Adult students (including Tini Pel at far left), Sudbury, 1955/56

Nancy Lima Dent 107a, b, c
From Sudbury Daily Star, 25 May 1956, p. 17

Nancy Lima Dent 108a, b was folded in half and wrapped around items 109 to 114

Nancy Lima Dent 115a, b
The front of the clipping is in English but the back is in a Slavic language so both were copied in case the back text gives clues to the paper’s origin, dated 1956 in pen on the front

Nancy Lima Dent 121a, b, c
The front and back of this 8.5x14 sheet were clearly a house program but the inside had no program information and Nancy had used it to type up notes about classes.

Nancy Lima Dent 122a-e
Item e was folded in half and inserted into the program

Nancy Lima Dent 129a-b
The reverse side (b) appears to be a part of a report though the rest of the report is not in her files

132 – 204
These are all in a subfolder marked “Teaching Notes, Sudbury and Garson, 1955-1957”. Some of them were written or typed on the backs of recycled paper but if the information on the back was career related, I scanned both sides. That’s why you will see numbers with a and b on them and yet the scans will seem unrelated.
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9 956 TUTDUDIDUN CABOUT People ' n ' Things n UND 100000 |||| IDAD SO a see as can WE WERE INTERESTED TO SEE what has been accom plished at the Garson Community Dance School , which , for the past six months , has been under direction of Nancy Lima Dent , who came to Sudbury from Toronto last fall , very highly recommended by those * in the know , ” in dancing circles . It was revelation to us , recently , when we went out to Garson to the spring recital presented by Nancy's pupils . We came away from the dance event as impressed the rest of the capacity capacity Sudbury and district audience that watched the 60 dance students perform . They were excellent , and we would like to add our con gratulations to the many that Mrs. Dent has received from those who attended the event . * IT'S AMAZING WHAT SOMEONE well qualified accomplish by instruction , in short period of time , whether it be dancing or any other art form that is being absorbed . We found the students- they range in age from four to 50 years very , very enthusiastic . Mrs. I. Haluschak , chairman of the Garson Dance School executive , is of group of Women in the mining village who wanted their children taught dancing , and this was their answer : To have Nancy Lima Dent come to them each week instructor . When she came here , in October last year , she had just left the New Dance Theatre , Toronto , where she had directed and organized groups for modern dance , for the past nine years . It was there that this talented dancer dancer and choreographer earned international recognition for her original works in the Dominion Ballet Festivals . SO one as a ås SO a a THERE ARE MANY FINE DANCERS , but not all these dancers are also splendid instructors , but such is the case with Nancy Dent . Not only is she pleasure to watch she dances her movements are very graceful and fluid - but she is an outstanding teacher . This was so aptly demonstrated by the exhibition of dance put on at Garson . It was a fast - moving program , and we were delighted , just as much as the other spectators , in watching the Peewees ( the four and five - year - olds ) , clad in black leotards and fluffy tutus , give class demonstration ; to see the Chickadees and Porcupines ( the six and eight - year - olds ) do a Danish polka and other folk dancing ; to enjoy the Beavers and Rhythm Folk , those leggy 11 to 13 - year - olds give class demonstration led by Nancy herself ; and then watch the Study in Movement by advanced students of Nancy's dance school . * MANY A FOOT SET TO TAPPING when the strains of Red River Valley floated out from the recording machine to set the Beavers off in a folk dance , and the Rhythm Folk then performed the Italian Tarantella to earn rounds of applause . The program concluded with colorful setting of Spring Flowers , danced to Tchaikovsky's ballet music , Swan Lake , Act 2 , to end in a brilliant finale . It was a pleasant evening , and we are looking forward to next year's recital , when the training will have been more fully developed with a season of dance behind the class . Nancy has an unusual style of modern dance , having been associated with such “ greats ” as Katherine Dunham and her famous troupe of New York , and the Martha Graham and Volkoff Corps , in Toronto . She is now in the throes of Wearsals for the first annual recital a