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More Than Entertainment: Democracy and the Performing Arts

By Joan Lancourt
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By Joan Lancourt
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One of the first professional national touring companies to focus exclusively on productions for children, Junior Programs (1936-1943) believed that the performing arts had more than entertainment to offer a democratic society. Their leaders were bold, iconoclastic thinkers who used innovative drama, dance, and opera productions to infuse the performing arts into the everyday life of the communities in which they performed, as well as into the entire K-12 local school curriculums.

Inspired b...