Walker Art Center and Schubert win big funding for "Engaging Dance Audiences"

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From John Munger's Going Through the Movements blog on Twin Cities Daily Planet:
I rejoice to have one more reason to claim, as I often have, that the Twin Cities dance community is widely regarded as one of the five or six most significant in the nation. Now if we can only convince the local audiences, the local mega-media, the local corporate community and the local decision-makers we might steal some respeck from Rodney Dangerfield.

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Leah Cooper

Leah Cooper is a freelance stage director, nonprofit administration consultant, co-founder of this here Web site, co-artistic director of Wonderlust Productions, and the Executive Director of the Minnesota Theater Alliance. She is also on the board of directors for Live Action Set and the California Institute of Contemporary Arts. From 2001 to 2006, she led the Minnesota Fringe Festival to annual attendance increases and financial stability. Up next, she is directing Shooting Star at Park Square Theatre and writing a play for Wonderlust's Adoption Play Project.