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Dr. Dorothy
Gifford Madden founder and first chair of the Department of
Dance at the University of Maryland, was born and raised in Manchester,
New Hampshire. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Middlebury
College, her Master of Arts from Syracuse University and her PhD from
New York University. She studied dance in New York, Washington,
D.C., Boston, Tokyo, and London, and danced in Washington, D.C. with
several
companies including The Chamber
Dance Group, Children's Dance Theatre and the companies of Pola Nirenska and Ethel Butler. She is a
Professor Emerita of the University of Maryland and Doctor Honoris
Causa from the Federacion Francaise de Danse in Paris. Dr. Madden
is the author of You Call Me
Louis, Not Mr. Horst.
For information call: Department of
Dance
(301) 405-3180
or email: dancedept@umd.edu
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