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Local Movement: Five Decades of Dance in Ann Arbor - Directors' Cut

"The national 'dance boom' of the late 1950's through the 1980's expanded audiences and support for dance. Federal grants supported the development of college dance programs and touring dance companies. The University Musical Society brought dance to the University of Michigan’s Power Center for the Performing Arts, built in Ann Arbor in 1971. Both at the University and in the community, Ann Arbor became a destination for dance. Low-cost performance and rehearsal spaces, community support, and grants helped create and nurture a vital dance scene, and Ann Arbor became home to numerous modern and jazz dance companies including Dance Theater 2, Hydra, Whitley Setrakian’s People Dancing, The J. Parker Copley Dance Company, Jazz Dance Theater, and The Peter Sparling Dance Company. Recurring community dance showcases, such as Spring Dances, Fall Dances, Dancing in Summer, and others took place throughout the year, allowing many choreographers to share their work. The film Local Movement, by Aimee McDonald and Terri Sarris, explores modern dance in Ann Arbor from the 1970's through today." - Terri Sarris

This is the directors' cut of Sarris and McDonald's 24-minute original created for Ann Arbor 200.

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Local Movement: Five Decades of Dance in Ann Arbor

"The national 'dance boom' of the late 1950's through the 1980's expanded audiences and support for dance. Federal grants supported the development of college dance programs and touring dance companies. The University Musical Society brought dance to the University of Michigan’s Power Center for the Performing Arts, built in Ann Arbor in 1971. Both at the University and in the community, Ann Arbor became a destination for dance. Low-cost performance and rehearsal spaces, community support, and grants helped create and nurture a vital dance scene, and Ann Arbor became home to numerous modern and jazz dance companies including Dance Theater 2, Hydra, Whitley Setrakian’s People Dancing, The J. Parker Copley Dance Company, Jazz Dance Theater, and The Peter Sparling Dance Company. Recurring community dance showcases, such as Spring Dances, Fall Dances, Dancing in Summer, and others took place throughout the year, allowing many choreographers to share their work. The film Local Movement, by Aimee McDonald and Terri Sarris, explores modern dance in Ann Arbor from the 1970's through today." - Terri Sarris

And for more stories from the film, check out the 46-minute directors' cut.

Falling Water, 1996 Photographer: Susan Wineberg

Falling Water, 1996 image
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1996
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Fjallraven, April 14, 2020 Photographer: Amy Cantu

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2020
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Blackout Violation and Reflection, November 1942 Photographer: Attributed to Eck Stanger

Blackout Violation and Reflection, November 1942 image
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1942
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Ann Arbor News, November 30, 1942
Caption:
A WHITE BLACKOUT: Light reflections from neon signs at the Cahow drug store, 213 S. Main St. clearly outlined the buildings (shown above) on the west side of the 200 block on Main St. during last night's 15-minute blackout. All the stores on the west side of the street had been blacked out in accordance with the city defense council order, but they were rendered visible by the light reflected from the drug store signs across the street.
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First Down, 1977

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1977
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Rage of the Age

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Agenda, August 1987
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August
Year
1987
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