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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BIOGRAPHY Nancy Lima Dent Director of the Mine - Mill Dance School , has had an ex tensive and varied training and experi ence in the dance . With a musical background in piano and theory from the Toronto Conserva- tory of Music , she went on to study Classical Ballet with Boris Volkoff of Toronto and then Modern Dance in New York with a number of teachers includ ing Eva Desca and Beatrice Seickler She also studied the Primitive Dance with Katherine Dunham . Nancy Lima Dent has long viewed the dance as a means of expression and has worked hard to understand how to NANCY LIMA DENT use this medium in bringing together all the elements of the theatre within the framework of dance drama , music , costuming , lighting , and stage settings , etc. To this end she studied Mime with Pierre Sonnier of the Jean Louis Barrault Company of France and Creative Drama with Al Saxe of the famous Actors Studio , New York , which has produced such famed actors as Marlon Brando , Eva Marie - Saint and the late James Dean . ( See the last issue of Week End Magazine ) This creative Canadian dancer and choreographer has already an impressive record of productions with the New Dance Theatre of Toronto . The modern ballet , “ Heroes of Our Time ” , produced by this group for the 4th Canadian Ballet Festival in the Royal Alex andra Theatre in Toronto received acclaim second only to the work of the Winnipeg Ballet . Anatole Chujoy , the New York Dance Critic , had this to say of another dance , “ That We May Live ” , a very moving and won derfully staged work The choreographers , Nancy Lima with Alex Rubin , succeeded in giving their work a great emotional impact and avoided at the same time any undue sentimentality . " Prior to coming to Sudbury , Nancy Lima Dent choreographed and produced at Hart House “ Indian Woman's Lament ” based on a poem by the Canadian pot , J E. Logan . 66