By Daily Press staff
Here’s your chance to be a master in Mexican and Latin dance. The Santa Monica College Dance Department will present Susan Cashion, renowned Stanford University senior lecturer in dance, who will teach at a master class in Mexican and Latin American dance forms.
The free master class, open to the public, will be at 11:15 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 3 in Gym 102, located at SMC’s main campus, 1900 Pico Blvd.
Cashion received her doctorate in education from Stanford, a master’s in anthropology from Stanford, and a bachelor’s in dance from UCLA. She has taught dance and dance anthropology courses at Stanford since 1972.
She has been the recipient of two prestigious Fulbright Scholar grants, as well as an American Association of University Women fellowship. In addition, she has received recognition for contributions to Mexican culture and folklore in the U.S.
Cashion is co-founder and artistic director of Grupo Folklórico Los Lupeños of San Jose and has been active in such organizations as the California Dance Educators Association and the Congress on Research in Dance.
The master class is sponsored by the SMC Associates, a private organization that funds speakers and special programs at the college.
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Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 29, 2005. Read the original PDF.