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Throughout her career, Lapson was a dance consultant to many performers and productions, including Fiddler on the Roof, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins, which opened on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre on September 22, 1964 and ran until July 2, 1972.
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Primarily known as a concert dancer and lecturer, Lapson began her performance career in New York in 1929.
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Lapson received attention for her work, which included a series of pre-war recitals in Poland, where she was deemed the exponent of Jewish dance.
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As a consultant for the Israel Music Foundation, Folkraft and Tikva Records, Lapson aided the educational process by supervising the recordings of Israeli folk dance music, providing written dance descriptions, music notation and the text and translation of the songs.
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However, Lapson was no stranger to presenting Jewish dance to international dance circles.
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“Dvora Lapson: Pioneer of Jewish Dance in America.” 3, no.
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An additional landmark opportunity for Jewish dance arose during the summers of 1951 and 1952 when Lapson was invited to teach at the Folk Dance Camp held at the College (now University) of the Pacific in Stockton, California.
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Lapson became the premier exponent of Jewish dance for Jewish educators through her work with the Jewish Education Committee in New York.
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Besides her stage career, Lapson initially worked as a school secretary in a Hebrew school in New York City.
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Lapson also wrote for several publications, including two major articles on Jewish dance (see bibliography).
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