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Grantee Profile
Lundstrum Center for the
Performing Arts
The origins of the Lundstrum Center for the Performing Arts, on the near north side of Minneapolis, date back over 80 years. It began in the 1920s, when 15-year-old Dorothy Lundstrum took over the Ascension School of Dance with her two sisters, Lorraine and Marion, and renamed it the Lundstrum Studio.
This would prove to be just the beginning of an amazing legacy. For seventy years, Dorothy taught and mentored hundreds of students in the arts of dance, charm, and fashion, and exercised her unique abilities to recognize inner beauty and to nurture depth of character.
When she died in 1998, she willed her studio to the five Casserly sisters, daughters of her lifetime pupil and beloved friend Lois Melsha-Casserly. In 2000, the Casserlys incorporated under the name Lundstrum Center for the Performing Arts and, with McKnight support, they carry on the traditions established by their beloved teacher and friend. Offerings cover a wide variety of forms and levels of dance, and even include recreational movement and therapeutic classes for local seniors.
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| Lundstrum Center for the Performing Arts |
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| Location: Minneapolis |
| Funding: $370,000 since 2002 |
| www.lundstrumcenter.com |
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Founded in the 1920s, the Lundstrum Center cultivates and nurtures in its students a love and knowledge of the performing arts.
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