2011 Dance Council Honors – Continued from page 13.


Imagine the Impossible dance studio, and South Dallas Cultural Center. Danny also provides food backstage to dancers and crew such as for the internationally renowned stars of TITAS’ Command Performance to the latest production of the Bruce Wood Dance Project.


Over the past 10 years, Danny has traveled the world from New York City to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Buenos Aires, Argentina to Cape Town, South Africa on a quest to see the best performance of Jewels by legendary choreographer George Balanchine. He has seen productions by New York City Ballet, Miami Ballet, Austin Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, and San Francisco Ballet. His favorite performance of Jewels was performed by Fort Worth Dallas Ballet at the opening of Bass Hall in Fort Worth.


Larry White Dance Educator Award — Dorothy “Dottie” Williams Hunt Kleeb


Born in east Texas, Dorothy came to Dallas at 17 to perform with the Summer Musicals, then went to New York City where she performed in the famed Radio City Music Hall Rockettes. Her career included per- forming throughout the USA in night clubs and USO tours.


Pictured: Dorothy “Dottie” Williams Hunt Kleeb


Heritage program at the Dallas Library. Ensuring the health of dancers, Danny donated dance floors to DCNT as a source of revenue. A behind the scenes guy, Danny delivers these floors to a variety of venues such as the Nasher Sculpture Center, Methodist Dallas Medical Center,


Since 1949, Dottie dedicated her life to teaching and choreographing for youth development programs, pageants and musicals for the Longview Civic Opera and community theater. A respected tap teacher in Longview, “Miss Dottie” organized and piloted the Tap/Jazz Dance Department in 1977 at Kilgore Junior College. She took her students to the International Educational Institute at the University of Exeter, England, where she taught seminars and produced Bye Bye Birdie for local student audiences. In 2007, Williams danced again at Radio City Music Hall for the 75th anniversary Christmas celebration. Now retired, she operated her studio In Longview for 49 years where generations of students studied all genres of dance, gymnastics and baton twirling.


Pictured: Gene Pflug Texas Tap Legend — Gene Pflug


Gene Pflug is best known as a tap dancer extraordinaire. A Dallas native, Gene began performing professionally in night clubs at age 14


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