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Show i Rockefeller Grant Will Benefit U of U Dancers President A. Ray Olpin has announced that officials of the Rockefeller Foundation have made available to the University of Utah the sum of $10,000 to be used over a period of three years for the purpose of bringing bring-ing outstanding choreographers of modern dance to the University Univer-sity of Utah campus. These artists will produce their own dance works using as performers per-formers University of Utah modern mod-ern dance students. The Rockefeller Rocke-feller grant given in recognition of contributions to the dance I field made by Miss Virginia Tanner Tan-ner of the University faculty, will make it possible to produce in Utah modern dance works never before performed outside the major theater centers of the country. Utah dancers will, through this program, have experience in working under the direction of national and international leaders lead-ers in modern dance. Workshop sessions each year will culminate with the public performance in Salt Lake City of major new dance works. The guest choreographer for the first workship scheduled to ' ke place from May 19 to June 12, 1961 is to be Miss Helen Tamaris. Miss Tamaris' achieve- ents as choreographer of such Broadway hits as "Annie Get Your Gun," "Carousel," the film version of "Carousel," as well as her classical dance works have earned her top ranking in the modern dance field. Western audiences remember her as the chief choreographer of the spectacular spec-tacular production of "Promised Valley," presented in Salt Lake City in 1947. While in Utah this summer, Miss Tamaris will stage two of her original dance works. One of the special works, "Dances Tor Walt Whitman," has been performed only once before in New York City. This is an exuberant ex-uberant and optimistic piece set to a score by David Diamond. The second work will be given its premier performance in Salt Lake City and will present guest artist Daniel Nagrin, in a solo role. The University of Utah faculty members responsible for organizing organ-izing and directing this activity are Miss Virginia Tanner, Dr. Elizabeth Hayes, Miss Shirley Ririe and Miss Joan Woodbury. Dancers will be chosen to participate par-ticipate in the workshop and in the dance performance through audition from among those now enrolled in the University of v Utah Modern Dance Department. The productions will be performed per-formed in Kingsbury Hall on the campus. Miss Tanner says the Foundation Founda-tion Grant will provide a unique experience for Utah audiences to enjoy full scale performances of major original dance works produced pro-duced under the personal supervision super-vision of the creating choreographer. chore-ographer. Miss Tanner , adds that "the presentation of these fresh creative efforts will provide the necessary force to develop the Utah area into a center for modern mod-ern dance." Dance, as a cultural art," says Miss Tanner, "will thus be encouraged to become more representative of the entire en-tire country rather than being ( centered almost exclusively on the East and West coasts." Miss Tanner adds that "nationally "na-tionally known choreographers will stimulate dancers to pursue pur-sue a career in this particular art, thus enabling them to be more adequately equipped to go to other instructions to raise |