Talk:Gillian Lynne

A fact from Gillian Lynne appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 June 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that choreographer Gillian Lynne took up dance as a child to recover from the violent death of her mother?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/June.

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Much of the earlier text in this article on her career as a chorographer appears to have cut-and-pasted from elsewhere: I have replaced it with a short stub, which is in great need of expansion. -- Karada 08:56, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There's a great anecodote about Gillian, starting around 15:20 in this video: http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=ken_robinson&flashEnabled=1 (in fact the whole video is worth a look).

I haven't been able to find a single other source for that story about the doctor and the radio that doesn't come from Ken Robinson himself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.108.7.138 (talk) 22:04, 4 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Disputed: "dancing to blot out the tragedy of the violent death of her mother"

I would dispute this characterization, but the article is s far outside of my regular interests. I'll state my objection here without placing a {{dispute inline}} tag in the article and hope that editors more focused on this article will pick up on it. I've only seen one of the two cited supporting sources ([1]); that says that her mother's death "became the building-block" of the rest of her life. That's not quite what the article says, but perhaps the article's slant comes from the other cited source. My dispute comes from this (I happened recently to see this video of the TED talk -- see it from about 14m38s in -- and it stuck with me). That NPR article I linked quotes, "Gillian and I had lunch one day. I said, how'd you get to be a dancer? And she said [that her mother took her to a dance class and] it was full of people like me, people who couldn't sit still, people who had to move to think - who had to move to think." and that her dancing was rooted there. So, I dispute the characterization that she took up dancing to blot out her mother's death. At the least, that viewpoint should be balanced here with the other per WP:DUE. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 12:24, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Early life and education"

I think that second paragraph have a weak source (she is mentioned for few minutes during a TED talk) when the details of the history are better explained in Ken Robinson's book The Element (available on Internet Archive). --valepert (talk) 22:15, 27 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]