Wikipedia:Meetup/AthensOhio/2024ArtandFeminism

Ohio University Libraries is hosting an in-person Art + Feminism edit-a-thon on Wednesday March 27 from 3pm-6pm at Alden Library room 251! This year we will focus on adding information about women modern dancers to Wikipedia utilizing the Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis Dance Collection as a starting point. The event aims to enhance the representation of modern dance on Wikipedia, ensuring that the narratives and achievements of the modern dance community are accurately documented and easily accessible to a global audience.

Schedule

 * 3pm start with introduction to editing
 * 4pm special guests live stream

Wikipedia Editing Training Resources

 * Art + Feminism website – quick guide PDF and short instructional videos if you scroll down the page
 * Wiki Edu student training modules

Dashboard
Use the Ohio University Art + Feminism 2024 dashboard to keep track of edits

Articles To Work On

 * Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company - stub article (print out and suggestions for editing, and an article from Dance Magazine available at event)
 * Dianne McIntyre - good example article
 * Rosanna Gamson stub article
 * Gladys Bailin stub article
 * Beverly Schmidt Blossom stub article, has many headings that could be combined and given a more narrative flow.
 * Sally Gross (choreographer) stub article
 * Carolyn Carlson (artist) stub article (print out and suggestions for editing available at event)
 * Janis Brenner stub article
 * Karen Jamieson stub article
 * Jeraldyne Blunden needs additional citations
 * List of female dancers
 * Women in Red list of dancers

Articles to Create
Josephine Schwarz (dancer, choreographer, founder of Dayton Ballet)

Miriam Blecher (dancer & choreographer, one of the founders of the New Dance Group) Risa Steinberg (dancer in José Limón company, professor at Juilliard)

RoseAnne Spradlin (choreographer and OU alum!)

Yanira Castro (choreographer)

Joanna Haigood (site-specific dance choreographer)

Susan Leigh Foster (scholar-artist – perhaps the most significant scholar of Dance Studies)

Lisbeth Bagnold
 * Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106503425
 * Born: October 10th, 1947 (Bronxville, NY)
 * Occupation: Dancer, choreographer, teacher
 * “Lisbeth Bagnold has been a member of the Nikolais Dance Theatre since 1971. A native of New York, she received a B.A. and M.A. from UCLA where she choreographed and taught as well. It was at UCLA that her encounters with such great artists as Murray Louis and Alwin Nikolais led her to a career in dance. As a veteran of Nikolais Dance Theatre, Lisbeth has travelled extensively throughout North and South America, North Africa, Europe, the Near and Far East totaling eleven foreign tours.” - Program for “Murray Louis Dance Company Nikolais Dance Theatre at the Beacon Theater February 8 - March 6, 1977

Tandy Beal
 * Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124980283
 * Website: tandybeal.com
 * Occupation: Dancer, artistic director, choreographer, teacher

Ruth Grauert
 * Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122874548
 * Born: March 24th, 1919
 * Died: May 20th, 2020
 * Occupation: Director, teacher, writer

Phyllis Lamhut
 * Draft article started - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Phyllis_Lamhut
 * Born: 1933 (Brooklyn, NY)
 * Occupation: Dancer, choreographer, pedagogue
 * Brief bio in program (“Nikolais dance theatre Murray Louis dance company” Lyceum Theatre Playbill dated February 1974) in MSS181, Series 7.4 Programs Box 6 - “Phyllis Lamhut was a featured dancer with the Alwin Nikolais Dance Company from its inception in 1948 at the Henry Street Playhouse until 1969. She has also had a long tenure with the Murray Louis Dance Company as leading dancer. Miss Lamhut received her major professional training with Alwin Nikolais and has also studied with Merce Cunningham. She has studied ballet at the American Ballet Center, with Zena Rommett and Peter Saul. As a member of the Nikolais and Louis companies she performed all over the world on concert stages and on television, winning critical acclaim for her artistry of motion and her talents as a comedienne. She has been equally successful in choreography and has produced her own works for many years, receiving grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. She now heads the Phyllis Lamhut Dance Company in addition to her duties as a member of the staff of the Louis-Nikolais Dance Theatre Lab and Adelphi University. Miss Lamhut travels throughout the country teaching and performing at major universities.”

Wanda Pruska
 * Born: July 25th, 1938 (Poland)
 * Occupation: Dancer, resort operator
 * Resources:
 * [Https://manoa.hawaii.edu/liveonstage/wp-content/uploads/1970.NikolaisDanceTheatre.pdf https://manoa.hawaii.edu/liveonstage/wp-content/uploads/1970.NikolaisDanceTheatre.pdf]
 * [Https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/25/archives/-echo-and-tower-heighten-rapport-in-nikolais-dances.html https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/25/archives/-echo-and-tower-heighten-rapport-in-nikolais-dances.html]

Dorothy Vislocky
 * Born: 1927
 * Died: October 26th, 2013
 * Occupation: Dancer, choreographer, professor, program director
 * “Dorothy Vislocky participated in the making of Nikolais’s Theater Dance for ten years, during the time of his intense explorations of space, time, shape and motion, as he incorporated sound, light, and a wide array of materials to create the magic of his theater. On July 28–August 3, 2013, Dorothy Vislocky conducted the workshop “Principles of Nikolais Theory and Composition” at Bearnstow in Mount Vernon, Maine. Dorothy passed away in October 2013; see her Memorial page.” - [Https://bearnstowjournal.org/historicalphotos.htm https://bearnstowjournal.org/historicalphotos.htm]


 * “ “Paraphernalia,” a solo choreographed and danced by Dorothy for Masks, Props and Mobiles II, 1955. This was the second evening of dance with objects, to which company members contributed their works. Here Nikolais also introduced his Tensile Involvement, which is still in repertories world wide today.” - https://bearnstowjournal.org/historicalphotos.htm
 * In the OHIO digital collection - https://media.library.ohio.edu/digital/search/searchterm/Dorothy%20Vislocky

Marcia Kelly
 * Wrote - “A Dancer's Pocket Guide to Embodied Performance"
 * Brief bio in program (“Nikolais dance theatre Murray Louis dance company” Lyceum Theatre Playbill dated February 1974) in MSS181, Series 7.4 Programs Box 6 - “Started her dance training while attending the University of Michigan. After teaching and performing her own work in Michigan she came to New York for further study with Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis at the Louis-Nikolais Dance Theater Lab. Miss Wardell joined the Louis Company in 1970 and has toured extensively. She has also performed her own choreographic works at the “Space” in New York City.”

Resources

 * Dance Magazine online
 * 20th century books about dance on Wikimedia Commons
 * Infobox dancer template
 * Invention of Dance video (1959)
 * Ubu Web