Founded by Earle and Dorothy Cobb in 1929, the Earle Cobb Dance Studio celebrated its 95th anniversary during its recent dance revue.
Earle Cobb Dance Studio students and alumni at the end of their reunion jazz and tap number at the studio's 95th-anniversary dance revue at the Lila Cockrell Theatre.Meeting in small clusters, they practiced steps and pushed away the butterflies in the dark corners of the theater and backstage until it was time.
The first dance revue was held on May 30, 1930, at the Municipal Auditorium and was billed in a newspaper ad as “the best show in town.” The audience couldn’t know then that it also would be one of the longest-running shows in town.Success! You're on the list. Dena Mabry instructs Earle Cobb Dance Studio students and alumni during the last rehearsal at the studio before the recital.Wearing matching reunion T-shirts for the performance, several of the dancers were mother-daughter pairs and some had been students together as children and teens before they also joined the dance faculty.
The studio, which opened in March 2020 and then briefly shuttered during the pandemic, is now a 10,000-square-foot dance school with 550 students on the far Northwest Side.“When we celebrated our 75th anniversary, my mom said that probably there are over 15,000 sets of feet that had been through the studio by that point,” Mabry said.
But Mabry loved being at the dance studio while her mother taught lessons. At one time the studio was located in the same shopping strip center as Nadler’s Bakery. Not a single dancer had to be reminded to smile. The glee at dancing among friends and family was infectious. Left: Alicia Bouardi and her daughters Missy Stovall and Lauren Bonnema after an Earle Cobb Dance Studio recital in 1994 at the Lila Cockrell Theatre. Right: Alicia Bouardi and her daughter Lauren Bonnama after this year’s recital with Bonnema’s daughters Kinslee, 8, and Ellee, 6.After living out of state 10 years, Bonnema recently returned to Earle Cobb and enrolled her daughters, ages 8 and 6.
Earle Cobb Dance Studio students and alumni run through the 95th-anniversary reunion number on stage during the recital’s intermission.Mabry believes the Earle Cobb Dance Studio also is fostering advocacy for the performing arts.
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