Roots and Wings

Mary-Elizabeth Manley is professor emerita and senior scholar in York University's Dance Department. Her research has been published extensively in Dance and the Child International (daCi) Congress conference proceedings. She was the chief editor for daCi's First 30 Years: Rich Returns and directed ARTStart, a children's community dance and arts program at York University. Mary Ann Lee is director of the University of Utah Tanner Dance Program and Children's Dance Theatre and adjunct associate professor of Modern Dance in the School of Dance at the University of Utah. She has published articles and a book on dance pedagogy for young dancers. Robert Bruce Bennett (1915-2006) was the husband of Virginia Tanner and the business manager of the Virginia Tanner Creative Dance Studio and the Children's Dance Theatre.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Gift of Dance Freely Given
Chapter 1 Awakening: Born to a Place and Time
Chapter 2 Distant Voices: In Search of a Calling
Chapter 3 Inspiration: Summer Schools in the Rockies
Chapter 4 Hop- Scotching
Chapter 5 Uncharted Territory: Launching a Career
Chapter 6 Birth of a Young Company
Chapter 7 Balance: The Juggling Act
Chapter 8 Springboards: The Buttermilk Tree
Chapter 9 Children: Straight Out of Heaven
Chapter 10 Imagination: The Beauty of Childhood
Chapter 11 Liftoff: When Dreams Take Flight
Chapter 12 Invitations: Westward Ho
Chapter 13 Virginia: “The Breadwinner”
Chapter 14 Sunshine and Sand: Hawaii Beckons
Chapter 15 A Master Teacher: IMPACT Calls
Chapter 16 Bright with Promise: The Golden Age for the Arts in Education
Chapter 17 Bulldozers on the Horizon: A Search for Home
Chapter 18 What Joy They Gave Unknowingly
Chapter 19 Unstoppable Drive: A Brilliant Journey
Coda You Taught My Soul to Dance
Notes
Bibliography