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Title: Performing Strong 45 Years, Marching Cobras Perfecting Those Dance Steps with Style
Description: Article recognizes that February 14, 2014, will be the 45th anniversary of the Marching Cobras drill team. The author states that the group's first performance took place on February 14, 1969. Members of the Marching Cobras' organizational staff, including the group's founder, Willie Arthur Smith, are interviewed and discuss the group's history and hopes for the future.
Date: 2014-01-31
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Renowned Dancer Dies At Age 88
Description: World famous ballet dancer Rosella Hightower died November 3, 2008, age 88, at her home in Cannes, France. "She grew up in Kansas City and went on to start one of the premier dance schools in Europe." Hightower was born in Oklahoma on January 10, 1920, with a Choctaw father and an Irish descent mother and was one of five American Indians to become world-class ballerinas. Her local dance teacher was Dorothy Perkins before she left Kansas City in 1937 to join a French troupe. After World War II she joined what is now called the American Ballet Theatre. "Reviewers always noted Hightower's lyrical movement and dramatic intensity, and the dancer credited [Vaslav] Nijinska with having the most influence on her stage presence and musicality." Includes her picture as taken in 1978.
Date: 2008-11-09
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Lonnie McFadden
Description: Article spotlights the entertainment career of Lonnie McFadden, a dancer, singer, and trumpet player. McFadden toured with R&B bands as a teenager before forming Lonnie and the Band with his brother Ronald, a saxophonist, and later The McFadden Brothers. He currently performs at several Kansas City music venues and teaches tap dancing at the DanceWorks Conservatory.
Date: 2011-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: 20 Years of Dance Innovation
Description: The Wylliams/Henry Dance Company celebrates its twentieth anniversary in Kansas City with a special performance at the White Recital Hall (4949 Cherry Street). The cutting-edge, contemporary dance company was founded by Mary Pat Henry and Leni Wylliams.
Date: 2011-09-25
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: SC65 Helen Seibert Thomes Scrapbooks Finding Aid
Description: Helen Siebert Thomes was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1884. She conducted the Helen Thomes School of Dancing for many years, retiring in 1942. Her first studio was located in Morton's Hall at Westport Road and Main. Other later locations included Drexel Hall at Linwood and Main and in a building she had built at 40th and Baltimore. She died in 1958.The collection consists of two scrapbooks, one of which contains 79 photographs. Many of these images of Miss Thomes's students are autographed and contain personal messages to her, taken circa 1915-1940. The second scrapbook contains ten photographs plus newspaper clippings, correspondence, programs for recitals, ephemera from a trip to Paris in 1914, dancing schedules, etc.
Date: 1910~/1946~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: More than 'Adorable'
Description: Tribute and obituary for Mary Minor Laird of Kansas City, former member of the "Adorables," a group of young dancers who performed at the Tower Theater. Laird graduated from East High School in 1930 and toured the country as a professional dancer. She began performing with the Adorables in 1935 and later became their dance captain.
Date: 2009-10-18
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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