FORTY +
Forty + is a performing group of community based dancers past the age of 40.
Forty + dancers work collectively under the direction of Jane Franklin. The group conducts workshops and performances at community centers serving older adults and has performed for the United States Environmental Protection Agency “Diversity Day,” in concert programs for Jane Franklin Dance, and was presented at 2011 INTERSECTIONS: A New America Arts Festival.
Dance for Older Adults activities
Forty + at INTERSECTIONS - click for video of Snapshot
READ ABOUT FORTY +
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The Isadora Effect
Peg Schaefer and Lindsay McLaughlin in "Times Two"
LaMothe beautifully expresses what hooked me into devoting my life to dance as a professional modern dancer. The “ahhh” exhilaration and communion with the universe is still a thrill at age sixty-seven. Not mentioned is that, in this age of pioneer work in brain function, dance has been recognized as a primal cognitive symbol-making system. Infants learn to “speak” movement, the language of dance, before forming words. The cognitive and educational importance of this has yet to be explored. Perhaps there is an “Isadora Effect” (Faber 2000) that rivals the “Mozart Effect.” ….Rima Faber
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