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Title: Gloryous Dance Affair
Subtitle: Black and White
Author: Deborah Schwartz, Glorya Kaufman
Narrator: Susan Marlowe
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-09-17
Publisher: Glorya Kaufman
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
Glorya Kaufman is a Los Angelesbased philanthropist who founded the Glorya Kaufman Dance Foundation. Her foundation provides the opportunity for underprivileged kids to take dance classes at Inner-City Arts by giving them an endowment to employ a dance teacher for perpetuity. Mar Vista Family Center is a school in the Spanish district that now has a dance floor. Next year, will be the 10 year anniversary for the Los Angeles Music Center presenting the Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance and the Alvin Ailey Dance Company, allowing more opportunities for outreach and creating new work, and the Julliard School Dance Studio overlooking Broadway. USC opened The Glorya Kaufman International Dance Center in 2016, a 55 thousand sq. foot dance building giving the opportunity for BFA degrees to dancers.
In 2019, there will be a 300-seat theater at Vista Del Mar, a school for mental health, autism, adoptions and early intervention services, which will be used by the communities after school hours.
She started a fund at USC Eye Clinic to perform only surgeries for children from infancy to 18 years of age for alignment of the eyes, a malady called Strabismus.
Members Reviews:
Turning Life's Challenges Into a Gloryous Dance
Glorya Kaufman's GLORYOUS DANCE AFFAIR takes us on the autobiographical journey of a dedicated homemaker, wife and mother who faces loss and tragedy and, despite her beauty and artistic gifts and a legion of devoted friends, for many years a lack of self-esteem. With astounding fortitude at every twist and turn, she finds a new self-appreciation combined with a wiser discernment of others that leads her to new heights as a thoroughly fulfilled and incredibly inspiring woman following her passions -- dance, dance education, libraries and giving to those less fortunate. The result has been huge -- the creation of her one-of-a-kind Glorya Kaufman International Dance Center at the University of Southern California, her life-changing support of many other dancers, dance organizations and conservatories across the United States, the major Los Angeles library dedicated to her late husband's memory, and an orphanage that has rescued countless children whom this warm-hearted philanthropist adores. As this riveting true-life saga ends, Glorya Kaufman promises she still has many more steps to dance in her joy-filled though sometimes brutally challenging life. The reader as well as all her devotees will be avid to witness to every single one.
The Glorious Glorya Kaufman
The Gloyous Dance Affair is a touching, inspirational and courageous memoir of the great philanthropist, Glorya Kaufman.
In her book,Glorya takes the reader on a very personal and intimate journey of her life as a child, daughter, teenager, wife,
mother, widow and finally as the independent woman she becomes. She dedicates her memoir "To my husband, Donald Bruce
Kaufman, without whose vision and innovative spirit my life and my ability to help others would not have been possible." It is through
their financial success with Kaufman and Broad that she is able to fulfill her lifelong ambition to help others and to realize her dream
to support the art of dance.