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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.

Nancy Lima Dent 42
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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ne Bedbury Dan CABOUT People ' n ' Things n > |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| WE WERE FASCINATED WITH THE DESCRIPTION Nancy Dent , talented dance instructor at the Union Hall , in in Sudbury , gave to her class Monday night of the day she spent last week , in Toronto at the CBC studios watching dance interpretations of two famous dramas prepared for CBC Folio viewers . “ It was absolutely fabulous , Nancy raved " I was never SO thrilled with anything for ages , the way Emily Frankel and Mark Ryder , of the Dance Drama Company of New York per formed . They are doing a version of the Romeo and Juliet story , and what a version , the entire dramatic sequence compact and beautifully . pantomimed , ” she said . Nancy , a talented dancer and choreographer , who earned international recognition for her original works in Dominion Ballet Festivals , before coming to Sudbury , from Toronto , is an enthusiast about modern dance . as SO 9 was an SHE TOLD HER CLASS that there a tremendously in teresting comparison of the emotional impact of the drama and dance featured during the rehearsals for the show . " Members of two famous dance groups gave their interpretations of two famous dramas , and the program is being introduced by authority on the subject . Speaking of the Romeo and Juliet story danced by Frankel and Ryder , Nancy said it is " modern ‘ pas de deux ' with music by Tchaikovsky and choreography by the dancers . In effort to free themselves from the rigid rules of classical ballet , many modern dance groups have acquired their own limiting rules , ” she said . Evidently , the young New York group to which Ryder and Miss Frankel belong has used every form available to Nancy Dent dancer an on re an as THEN NANCY WHO IS TRAINING some exceptionally talented modern dancers in Sudbury herself , went to say that the second part of the program which she watched in hearsal and programing is an interpretation of Eugene O'Neill's powerful drama The Emperor Jones , with that inimitable male dancer Jose Limon , Lucas Hoving and Limon's company of male dancers doing the performance . ** The score for this dance , half hour long , is an original one , which was written specially for it by the Brazilian com poser Heitor Villa - Lobos , ” Nancy said . She told us that most of the scenes relate to the terrifying fantasies which arise in the upstart Negro emperor's mind , his power collapses , and he turns into a frightened animal , fleeing for his life and his sanity through the jungle . * MRS . DENT WHO WAS DIRECTOR of the New Dance Theatre , in Toronto for nine years before coming to Sudbury some 15 months ago , is anxious to develop advanced modern dance group to do serious works she has arranged , here in Sudbury She goes to Toronto frequently to meet with other talented dancers and choreographers , SO that she will keep her own interpretations fresh and unhampered . She has some powerful interpretations developed of her impressions of the Nickel City , which she will dance , at some future date , soloist . * AND SPEAKING OF DANCING , the Sud bury University Women's Club , which is b the National Ballet Company May 1 entertair nto , busi an ENT ) chapt who Richa cookie rich , 1 as a *