No. 633 Phyllis Haskell-Tims, 2008

File — Box: 68, Folder: 6

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Scope and Contents

Haskell-Tims is a former dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Utah. She describes her family and her childhood at Yankee Farm near Santa Barbara, California. She recalls beginning dance lessons at age three with Madame Maria Kedrina who had trained in the Imperial Ballet Company in Russia. She describes performing all through public school and attending the University of Arizona, where she was introduced to modern dance. After college she became a stewardess with American Airlines, moved to New York, and danced before attending the University of Utah graduate school of dance. Other topics include touring and teaching with Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, her faculty appointments at Arizona State and the University of Hawaii, her return to the University of Utah as chair of the Department of Modern Dance, and her career and subsequent retirement at the University of Utah.
Interviewer: Scott Marsh

Dates

2008

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