July 13, 2021
Allegra Fuller Snyder, former chair of UCLA’s dance department, and former director of the world arts and cultures interdisciplinary program (merged in 1995 to create the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance), died Sunday, July 11. She was 93.
Snyder’s research areas included performance dance, dance ethnology, dance therapy, and film as a method of preserving and documenting dance.
An early advocate of dance preservation on film for use in education, Snyder produced historical films about Mary Wigman and about Baroque dance, and a performance dance film about Margalit Oved Marshall. Her husband, film documentarian Robert Snyder, cooperated with her in the making of an ethnographic film about the Philippine dance troupe Bayanihan. She was a key consultant on “Dancing” for Thirteen WNET.
Dome, sweet dome: Family returns artifacts
Marilyn Halstead The Southern Illinoisan
Feb. 13, 2021
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Thad Heckman carries two of the original chairs from the Buckminster Fuller Dome Home in Carbondale. The Fuller family donated furniture and artifacts from the home, along with nearly 3,500 of Fuller’s books, as part of the ongoing restoration and preservation of the iconic home.Byron Hetzler | Southern Illinoisan (AP)
CARBONDALE (AP) Many people might not be excited to have two large ceramic dogs arrive at their home, but for the members of the R. Buckminster Fuller Dome Not-For-Profit, the dogs and other artifacts that came with them are quite exciting.
Many people might not be excited to have two large ceramic dogs arrive at their home, but for the members of the R. Buckminster Fuller Dome Not-For-Profit, the dogs —