About Richard Powers
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Richard Powers is a full-time instructor of dance history and contemporary social dance forms at Stanford University Dance Division, Department of Theater and Performance Studies.
His principal focus since 1975 has been social dance forms, from the Renaissance to today. Specializations include 19th century American and European social dance, dances of the Ragtime Era and Jazz Ages, and currently evolving vernacular dance forms.
His research is drawn from a personal collection of over 2,500 historic dance manuals, the largest personal collection in the world, supplemented with a twelve thousand-title collection of period dance music. Other resources include ongoing exchanges of information with dance historians in the U.S and Europe.
He has studied historic dance with Ingrid Brainard, Julia Sutton, Elizabeth Aldrich, Shirley Wynne, Angene Feves, Wendy Hilton, Catherine Turocy, Elaine Biagi Turner, Ann Jacoby, Charles Garth, Frantisek Bonus, Yvonne Vart, Michelle Nadal, Frankie Manning, Norma Miller and Juan Carlos Copes.
Read more about Richard on his website: www.RichardPowers.com
His principal focus since 1975 has been social dance forms, from the Renaissance to today. Specializations include 19th century American and European social dance, dances of the Ragtime Era and Jazz Ages, and currently evolving vernacular dance forms.
His research is drawn from a personal collection of over 2,500 historic dance manuals, the largest personal collection in the world, supplemented with a twelve thousand-title collection of period dance music. Other resources include ongoing exchanges of information with dance historians in the U.S and Europe.
He has studied historic dance with Ingrid Brainard, Julia Sutton, Elizabeth Aldrich, Shirley Wynne, Angene Feves, Wendy Hilton, Catherine Turocy, Elaine Biagi Turner, Ann Jacoby, Charles Garth, Frantisek Bonus, Yvonne Vart, Michelle Nadal, Frankie Manning, Norma Miller and Juan Carlos Copes.
Read more about Richard on his website: www.RichardPowers.com
