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Janet Van Swoll teaches Dance History, Movement Notation,
Dance Appreciation and all levels of Ballet. Under her direction, the San
Jose State University Dance Program became an accredited member of the National
Association of Schools of Dance. Her principal training in ballet
was from Dimitri and Francesca Romanoff, for
whom she also taught. Dimitri Romanoff was the regisseur for American
Ballet Theatre for many years. Professor Van Swoll attended Butler
University and graduated from UCLA.
She completed her Master of Arts at San Jose State University and has done
post graduate work in Labanotion at Mills
College and Ohio State University. She
is certifed by the Dance Notation Bureau to
teach Elementary and Intermediate Labanotation and has been trained by the
Dance Notation Bureau to reconstruct dances from the Labanotated score.
She has restaged a dozen works from the Labanotated score, choreographed
eleven productions for Opera San Jose, where
she has also been a movement coach and teacher. She was a visiting professor
in Dance at the National Taiwan Academy of Arts
for the 1987-1988 academic years.
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