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Show DANCE CONCERT TO BE HELD AT HIGH SCHOOL A dancing concert to be given by Tess C. Packard of Springville and Claude S. Snow of Provo, in the Springville high school auditorium on Friday, December 4, promises to be an outstanding event of the winter. The performance perfor-mance is being sponsored by the Mothers' Study club and the proceeds pro-ceeds are to be turned over to the art committee to help insure the success of the coming April exhibit. Miss Packard who is a senior at the Brigham Young university, universi-ty, took an intensive six-week's course of study last summer under un-der Lester Shafer, noted dance master of Los Angeles and formerly for-merly associated with the Deni- ington D. C. She made rapid strides during her stay on the coast and received high commendation commenda-tion from Mr. Shafer. She was featured in a dance concert presented pre-sented by Mr. Shafer, appearing in a solo number "Manhattan Serenade." She was also selected to appear in the Hoover dam Electrical parade, par-ade, being featured on a float of electric flowers. The Los Angeles Times paid tribute to her artistry by presenting along with its story of the parade a large staff photograph of the young dancer. Previous to her departure for Los Angeles, Miss Packard directed dir-ected the dancing for the Provo City Recreational program and was chairman of the big ring circus which climaxed the season's sea-son's activities. She with Coach C. J. Hart of the B. Y. U. also conducted a three-day course in folk and social dancing at the U. B. I. C. at Fort Duchesne. Miss Packard's interests arc not confined to dancing. She has taken an active part in dramatics at the university and is affiliated with the Mask club; is vice-president of the Theta Alpha Phi; a member of the Dance club; the Fidelas social unit and the Phi Delta Pi. She also was recently elected into the "White Key" honorary girls' scholastic club. Mr. Snow is a graduate of the B. Y. U. where he studied under Miss Wilma Jeppson and Alene Coleman Smith. Since his graduation gradua-tion he has studied under Lester Les-ter Shafer and Marion Chase at the Denishawn School of Dancing, Danc-ing, Washington D. C. He has studied modern German dancing under Agcnta Slavy; interpretive and oriental dancing with Mischo Ita; modern, interpretative with Lester Shafer; English country dancing with Gene Gowing, and Spanish dancing from Ellicott and Jack Reinard. During the past summer, he studied under Ted Shawn at his summer camp at Lee, Mass. Mr. Shawn is considered the greatest living male dancer in the world today. Mr. Snow has appeared in important im-portant dance revues not only in Utah but in Washington D. C. and in California as well. He appeared ap-peared at the Sylvan theater and at the Wardman Park theater in Washington D. C. with the Denishawn Deni-shawn group; in Hollywood with Agnes de Mille's ballet, and as a soloist at the Poetry theater at the University of Southern California. He has given numerous concerts con-certs in various parts of Utah and Idaho and has appeared in several programs of the American Ameri-can Indian dances for the M. I. A. and Primary groups at the church institutes and conferences. The performance by Miss Packard Pack-ard and Mr. Snow will be of universal interest and value from an artistic point of view and one that should be seen by everyone in the community. |