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SUMMARY:Like the Sea: Dancing with Mary Glass: A very visual seminar with 
 Carol Mavor - Professor Carol Mavor\, University of Manchester 
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CONTACT:Ross Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Mary Glass (1946–2021) was an innovative modern dancer and c
 horeographer\, quietly instrumental to the San Francisco Bay Area art scen
 e of the 1960s and ’70s—barely known today—admired for her experimen
 tal movements based on sounds and images of the Pacific. As a child\, Mary
  Glass took her first dance class with Anna Halprin on her famed redwood d
 ance deck in Marin County’s Kent Woodlands. The effect on Mary Glass was
  seismic. Fittingly\, Halprin called her classes ‘dance experiences’.\
 n\nMary Glass’s lifestyle\, her anxieties\, and her dance reflect the hu
 man geography of Northern California: Happenings\, Zero Population Growth 
 (ZPG)\, feminism\, same-sex love\, civil rights\, Vietnam\, environmentali
 sm. Cascading in the waves of the politics of the time was Mary Glass’s 
 anorexia\, an unexpected pregnancy\, and her life-long love affair with th
 e Black painter Eliza Vesper. Today Mary Glass is remembered by an increas
 ingly diminishing handful of devotees. Mavor is one of them. There are no 
 photographs or films of Mary Glass dancing. The life of Mary Glass is near
 ly forgotten\, her memory on the edge of extinction. In meditative\, dazzl
 ing and lyrical prose\, Like the Sea tells us—like the ocean’s music i
 n our ear—we need to remember extinction to imagine our way out of it.\n
 \n\nAll are welcome\; refreshments will be served in the social space in t
 he English Faculty after the seminar. \n\nLooking forward to seeing you ne
 xt Monday!
LOCATION:Little Hall\, Sidgwick Site
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