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| | UArts : Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | PHILADELPHIA (April 26, 2006) - Nadia Chilkovsky Nahumck, 98, founder of the Philadelphia Dance Academy, died April 23, 2006, in Blue Bell, Pa. Born in Kiev, Russia, in 1908, she came to Philadelphia as a child. |
 | | A pioneer in modern dance, dance pedagogy and Labanotation (a system of dance movement notation employing various symbols to record the points of a dancer's body, direction of a dancer's movement, tempo and dynamics), she danced with the Irma Duncan company from 1921-1931 and was well known as a premier Duncan dancer. |
 | | Nahumck founded the Philadelphia Dance Academy in 1944, organized a college division in 1954 with the Philadelphia Musical Academy (now The University of the Arts [UArts] School of Music) and an accredited K-12 private school, the Performing Arts School of Philadelphia in 1962. |
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