Virginia Tanner

Women in the Arts » Dance

The most celebrated teacher of children’s dance of her time, Tanner studied dance with Doris Humphrey in New York City before returning to Salt Lake City in 1949 to organize the Children’s Dance Theater (CDT). Under her direction, the CDT presented numerous exhibitions, including five concerts in 1962 at the Seattle World’s Fair. Tanner also helped form the Repertory Dance Theater (RDT) at the University of Utah, and her efforts resulted in several Rockefeller Foundation grants to the university’s dance department, the first ever awarded to a college dance program.
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