LOOKS LIKE GARY 5 ONE, FRONT ROW, AND IT LOOKS LIKE GLORIA HINMAN WAS THERE TOO: Village Dancers by Dick Oakes � In the early 1960s, Dr. Anthony "Tony" Shay (photo at left) directed a group of enthusiastic dancers from all over the Los Angeles metropolitan area. He called this "ensemble" the Village Dancers. When I joined the group, which was meeting at UCLA, Shay was staging a Kurdish Suite, and I needed to make a Kurdish costume. I still have the hand-written notes on how that was to be accomplished! Before I could finish the costume, however, I moved to San Bernardino--simply too far to commute! In addition to the Kurdish dances, the group's repertoire included dances of Azerbaijan, Croatia, Iran, Serbia, Turkey, and the United States. The Village Dancers gave more than 40 performances from March 25, 1961, to June 20, 1963. A major tour de force occurred when the troupe presented The Village Dancers in Concert at Schoenberg Hall at UCLA on October 27, 1962. The program (see images below) included a three-dance Iranian suite, a Turkish dance, a song and medley of songs from Serbia, music of Hungary, the United States' "Lancers Quadrille," a North Serbian dance, a five-dance suite from South Serbia, two dances and music from Azerbaijan, music from Greece, a Ukrainian dance, Armenian music, and a medley of music and dances from Croatia. Dr. Shay, along with talented artist Leona Wood as the other artistic director and Philip Harland as the music director, formed what was to become the premier international performing group in the country, the AMAN Folk Ensemble. According to Shay, "The transition to the AMAN Folk Ensemble was actually only a name change. The same dancers who were in the Village Dancers in the summer of 1963 were performing under the AMAN name in late summer 1963." Below, thanks to Dr. Shay, is the program for "The Village Dancers in Concert," a list of most of those who once performed with the Village Dancers, and a couple of articles. For lots of photos, be sure to click the link to the Village Dancers Photo Gallery. Cheers! Dick Oakes Village Dancers Performers and Musicians Mehrdad Azarmi Karen Barker Phyllis Bassell Carol Bloom Bobbie Boschen Ničevo Bojvić John Boyden David Brandon Lois Brandon Sharon Breit Colleen Carrington Pete Casacadden Neil Cascadden Slvian Castel de Oro Richard Chaiclin Barbara Contaratto Helen Fogarty Melanie Fuller Ronald Furedy Marge Gajicki Linda Goldfarb Frank Grbić Morgiana Hally Gary Hinman Gloria Hinman Margaret Hohly Joyce Houdek Frank Kacić Steve Kopel Olav Krosby Dale Kunz Maurice Lapierre Gerd Lapson Linda Lindgren John Loos Carin Machleder Bertha Makow Stephanie Maressin Joy Marsman Jim Martin Dennis "Tzigan�" McDonough Dariush Mehrjooi* Bill Miller Gene Minor Janice Miriktani Dick Oakes Patti Oakes Nikki Paisner Pamela Perry (Edis) Adele Polifroni Ian Price Patrick Purdy Vickers Ridley Martha Schecter Nancy Schekman Robert Schneider�
Gloria is his ex-wife. And UCLA is where he got his chemistry degree, so the time period fits. It looks like Gary.
From the guy in the group: Dear *******: Yes, this is the same Gary Hinman that was killed by the Manson gang. He played the piano in a number that we performed over 40 years ago. I will look through my things to see if I have any photos. Dick Oakes probably can provide you with a photo that shows us that has Gary, but I will see if I can locate it as well. ******** ---SO IT IS GARY AND GLORIA.
thank you! i was a bit confused. too bad you can't see him upclose but atleast now i've seen more than 3 pics max of him
I'm mostly computer challenged but But the quickest way is to save the picture as your background theme and it will come up the size of your monitor - You can also blow it up the harder way by saving it into your picture files then playing with the pixels and/or cropping. -
guess i'm not doing it right cuz it's always blurry. i have no idea how to change the pixels..damn well thanks for trying to help!
