[Xmca-l] Re: Vera John-Steiner has passed away

[Luisa Aires]

A great loss for all of us.

Luisa

2017-12-07 22:06 GMT+00:00 Jessica Kindred <kindred.jessica@gmail.com>:

> I’m so deeply saddened by this news. There was a wonderful professor and
> mentor to me when she was in New York at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her
> innovative teaching, generous insight, and inspired compassion was such a
> gift, not to mention her beautiful writing, which stays with us. She also
> led some wonderful conversations at Movement Research in New York City on
> Dance with Dance Collaborations in 1993, bridging the academic and artistic
> communities. I’m very grateful to her, and I send my deepest condolences to
> her daughter Suki and her grandchildren who brought her such joy.
> Jessie Kindred
>
> On Dec 7, 2017, at 4:51 PM, Robert Lake <boblake@georgiasouthern.edu>
> wrote:
>
> Dear XMCA Family,
>
> Our beloved Vera John-Steiner died last night very shortly after she
> experienced a stroke.
> She had posted to this site on 11/25/17.  We will send more information and
> an obituary as
> it becomes available.  Attached is the last "letter" from
> *Constructing a Community of Thought:Letters on the Scholarship, Teaching,
> and Mentoring of Vera John-Steiner *(2013).
> In this piece, we sought to synthesize all the wonderful contributions
> from so many of her friends, collaborators and students from the book
> mentioned above.
>
> Warmest condolences to her family and to all her knew and loved her.
> *Robert Lake*
> <Constructing a Community of Thought Last Letter.pdf>
>



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