ABSTRACT
Dear Maxine Greene You don’t know me but I know you, at least I know something of you through your work which
I have read and heard at conferences for many years. When I first ‘met’ you I was just beginning to move away from my first career as a concert modern dancer/university dance teacher into my present life as an education scholar. I didn’t actually know that I was making that move because I was enrolled in an M.F.A. in Dance program, fully intending to use the degree to continue what I had already done for 13 years-dance and choreograph professionally and teach and choreograph dance in university settings. As it turned out the die was cast from the very first day of this new experience called graduate school and I had cast it. I had delineated a program for myself that included, almost exclusively, scholarly work in philosophy and anthropology as a way toward better understanding of what dance was, both for my own interest and in order to teach it better. I had thought in such areas for many years, reading and thinking on my own and now I was going to seize the opportunity to do so in a more systematic and supported way. In the course of events that ensued, I was brought to your book Landscapes of Learning (1978a), especially the section on aesthetics, by my good friend Sue Stinson. You even came to Greensboro, North Carolina to speak (although I couldn’t attend that event because my newborn son commanded, beautifully, my attention and presence). Later on I did have the good fortune to hear you speak at Duke University. You were brought in to speak about the Lincoln Center Institute.
