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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Garson Community Dance School Scores Again WAN The enthusiasm of the capaci ty audience at the second annual dance recital of the Garson Com munity Dance School held re cently left no doubt as to the considerable achievements of the school in two brief years of work . The recital this year attained interest beyond the parents and relatives of the charming young dancers . It was fine entertain ment , varied in form and con tent , expressing the confidence and maturity of the dancers , their love of dancing and the people for whom they dance . Not all the work and effort which made the recital and the school successful is known or ob vious , read the appended list of people who in various ways and degrees made their needed con tribution . Many more than are mentioned here were involved who worked in support of the school and the recital . This is the basis and the guarantee that this important community work will continue to flourish here . Students , parents , members and citizens together with the teach er work together to meet a real community need in dance edu cation and production . VERSATILE DANCERS ( 1. to r ) 14 - year - old Ellen Rock wood and 10 - year - old Phyllis Cronin , both of whom de lighted the capacity audience at Garson with the variety and quality of the several solo and ensemble numbers in which they appeared . Ellen's sensitive interpretation of of the fifteenth century English folk song " I Wonder As I Wander ” revealed reverence and spiritual quality unusual in one so young , yet in her light - hearted " Blue Tail Fly " with Donna Jussila to the familiar American folk song , she danced the Fly with all the mischief and abandon of the familiar mosquitoe or wasp . Incidentally , Sudbury audiences will see Phyllis in a recital on Friday , June 7th