Background
Prevots, Naima was born on May 27, 1935 in New York City. Daughter of Reuben and Rae (Donchin) Wallenrod.
(At the height of the Cold War in 1954, President Eisenhow...)
At the height of the Cold War in 1954, President Eisenhower inaugurated a program of cultural exchange that sent American dancers and other artists to political "hot spots" overseas. This peacetime gambit by a warrior hero was a resounding success. Among the artists chosen for international duty were José Limón, who led his company on the first government-sponsored tour of South America; Martha Graham, whose famed ensemble crisscrossed southeast Asia; Alvin Ailey, whose company brought audiences to their feet throughout the South Pacific; and George Balanchine, whose New York City Ballet crowned its triumphant visits to Western Europe and Japan with an epoch-making tour of the Soviet Union in 1962. The success of Eisenhower's program of cultural export led directly to the creation of the National Endowment for the Arts and Washington's Kennedy Center. Naima Prevots draws on an array of previously unexamined sources, including formerly classified State Department documents, congressional committee hearings, and the minutes of the Dance Panel, to reveal the inner workings of "Eisenhower's Program," the complex set of political, fiscal, and artistic interests that shaped it, and the ever-uneasy relationship between government and the arts in the US. CONTRIBUTORS: Eric Foner.
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Prevots, Naima was born on May 27, 1935 in New York City. Daughter of Reuben and Rae (Donchin) Wallenrod.
Bachelor, Brooklyn College, 1955; Master of Arts, University of Wisconsin, 1960; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Southern California, 1983.
Professor American University, Washington, 1967—1984, 1988—2003, professor emerita, since 2003. Director/curator Hollywood Bowl Museum, Los Angeles, 1984-1988. Cons./panelist National Education Association, 1979—1990, Department Education, 1979—1991, Kennedy Center, 1988—1995.
Cerds consultant, since 2003.
(At the height of the Cold War in 1954, President Eisenhow...)
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Panelist California & District of Columbia Arts Communications, 1976—1994. Chair District of Columbia chapter Alliance for Arts, 1976—1978. Member of CORD (board directors), Fulbright Associates 1989-1996, European Union Erasmus Dance Extensions, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Martin Wallen, August 26, 1979. Children: Becky Prevots, Aaron Prevots.