[Adta] Libby Skala's performance on Friday night at the American dance Therapy Associationconference

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Terrific, Nana!! 

 

I am very excited. We are luck to have this performance at our conference.

 

It will also be so meaningful for those of us who remember Elizabeth and
what a tribute for Libby to make to her great aunt & to share with the
world-  very special!

 

See you there!

Susan

 

Susan kleinman, MA, ADTR, NCC

 

 

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From: adta-bounces at adta.org [mailto:adta-bounces at adta.org] On Behalf Of
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Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 11:36 AM
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Subject: [Adta] Libby Skala's performance on Friday night at the conference

 

To the membership:

 

I just received the accompanying review of Libby Skala's show, based on the
life of her great-aunt, Elizabeth Polk.  As many of you know, Libby will be
performing this one-woman show at the conference on Friday evening. I pass
along the review, from today's London (Ontario, Canada) Free Press, so you
can read up on the great performance you'll be seeing.  Hope all will be
there!  Here's the web address, in the event that you want to read it
directly.


http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Today/Entertainment/2007/07/30/4378914-sun.html

Mon, July 30, 2007

By KATHY RUMLESKI, FREE PRESS REPORTER

With her cheerfulness, Austrian accent and music-making, you might think 
you're watching Maria von Trapp.
But our entertainer is writer/performer Libby Skala, who skillfully portrays

her great aunt Elizabeth Polk (Lisl), an Austrian-born dancer, in A Time to 
Dance at the London Fringe Festival.
Polk, who later lived in New York, taught dance and became a leading 
authority in dance therapy, working with emotionally, physically and 
mentally handicapped children. She seems like a remarkable woman.
Her life story is worth telling and Skala does so exuberantly with dance and

drama.
Sometimes overshadowed by her big sister Lilia Skala (an Oscar-nominated 
actor, who is the focus of Libby Skala's first one-woman show Lilia), Lisl 
reaches out to let her own light shine.
The music in A Time to Dance is a recording produced by Lisl that she used 
when working with children.
It's fanciful and expressive -- much like the performance by Skala, whose 
face speaks 1,000 words.
While Lisl's life wasn't easy -- she survived poverty, Hitler and the war 
and a husband who was "crazy" -- her life story ends with her niece saying 
she had no regrets.
There is (sic!) definitely no regrets in seeing this show.





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