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PICTURE this scene if {

you can. A man walks
in off Marine Drive,
and strides. over to the
reception desk of Anna
Wyman’s dance studio.

BEING CRUSHED against the ceiling isn’t supposed te be
part of the dance routine for Diane Garrett and Neil Wortley.
(left) and Wendy Creese and Mark Wilson (right) but the low
ceilings in Anna Wyman’s dance studio in West Vancouver
impede smooth rehearsals, Obstrusive pillars and a general
lack of space make matters worse, according to company
founder and choreographer Anna Wyman.

By KELLEY JO BURKE

**Tell Anna Wyman, if she
doesn’t like West Vancouver,
she can lump it,”’ he tells the
startled whoever is on desk.

Some people feel rather
strongly about the place they
live. And when Anna Wyman
said in a North Shore News
interview a few weeks ago
that she was unhappy in her
present situation in West
Vancouver owing to spatial
difficulties, some people
interpreted that as an attack
on the municipality itself.
Some people didn’t like that
at all.

**] don’t like to move, I
have to,’’ Anna says through
chattering. teeth. The heat
hasn’t come on in her office
on this rainy, miserable Mon-
day morning. ‘‘It’s not that |
don’t like West Vancouver, I
don’t like the situation.”’

‘“*We came over here four-
teen years ago... as I| said
before, I'm a European, my
community is very important
to me. | don’t want to
leave.”’

She was alarmed by the
response to the earlier article,
You know, if people thought
1 was saying that (that she
disliked West Van_ itself),
they wouldn’t think twice
about taking their children
out of school.

Pulling her sweater on a lit-
tle tighter, she patiently lists
the problems with the — they met with no luck.
school’s present location. ‘*t don’t think that a com-
The studio at 17th and pany has to be in the city. As
Marine Drive in West Van- long as we have good classes,

25th Anuniversary
1959 — 1984

North Shore Bantam Girls
Basketball Champions —
1984

ENTRANCE EXAM
(for Grade 8 applicants only)
Thursday, March 8, 1984 (12 noon)
Applications are being received for

grades 9-12. Please contact the school
office.

SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS

HIGH SCHOOL

541 West Keith Road 987-4431
North Vancouver, B.C.

NEWS photo tan Smith

couver where the school is good teachers, good sessions North Shore Neighbourhood House

located is much too small for — it doesn’t matter. But if we Annual General Meeting

the company to rehearse. It have no space, what can we

has three pillars in it, which do? These kids in training 730pm Wed, March 28 1984

makes unimpeded run now, they could become

throughs an impossibility. dancers or not. If we have to

The cost of removing the move away, we could lose Inman Room .
pillars is prohibitive. So the = them. North shore T t if th
company does most of its ‘‘There must be something Neighbourhood House rea you rse is
work at the Navy League — in this (her desire to keep the a |

gymnasium in North Van- school on the North Shore) 255 East 2n Street wee a

couver. So each morning, the — because I’m still pushing for North Vancouver, B.C.

dancers file into the West 1°’

Van school for part of the
tchearsals and critique from
Anna, then throw clothes a
over hot, wet bodies and
drive to North Van, for the
afternoon.

“he's not the way for a
dance company to opceratc,"’
Anna says in frustration. “If
peuple don't like to hear we

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