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See our plansA great loss befell the dance community this fall when Nancy Topf, dancer, choreographer and teacher died in the SwissAir plane crash. For twenty-five years, Nancy was a pioneer in...
She is in my bones, my vertebrae, the back of the throat where the spine and the central axis touch. Her life's work is in there—deep in my bones. She...
He and I are stalking one another in a pool of light. Occasionally he tackles and pins me. Or I jump up onto his shoulder. The sound score is him...
What I remember the most about Bob Dunn's classes was how he encouraged us to look at and talk about what was actually there in someone's work, not what we...
Bob often said with pride, and a chuckle, that he never knew where he was going when he taught. But in looking over notes and listening to our recorded conversations...
Bob Dunn changed the course of dance history although he was too modest and too busy to be aware of it. His graceful, sensitive body and brilliant mind linked the...
An earlier version of this article appeared in Dance Central, October 1996, the monthly newsletter of the Vancouver, British Columbia dance community. My first recollections of Bob Dunn are from...
When I first started to study dancing in 1949, I was aware of only one teacher of choreography, Martha Graham's mentor, Louis Horst, who taught two series of workshops: Pre-Classic...
In 1981, when I was living in Santa Fe, I arranged for Bob Dunn to come out and teach a workshop called “Choreography and Improvisation.” I had been introduced to...
Bob taught at "Alternative Strategies for Moving the Body," a workshop organized by David Appel and Mead Andrews, who also taught in Washington, D.C. in 1988. I was fond of...
I began the Dunn, Dunn classes at the Cunningham studio after they began. Valda Setterfield and I were early married and pregnant. We met dancing with James Waring. The first...
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