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  • ISBN 9780786474172
  • Weight: 449g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Jun 2013
  • Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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The story of this groundbreaking summer dance program is told through the voices of staff, faculty, and students. Administrative director Mary Josephine Shelly's previously unpublished writings form a key summary of eight of the nine summer sessions. The Bennington School of the Dance held classes from 1934 through 1942 at Bennington College in Vermont, with one summer spent at Mills College in California. Its effects were far-reaching in the development and dissemination of modern dance as an original American art form.

The school produced unique choreographic works by teachers in residence: Martha Graham, Hanya Holm, Doris Humphrey, and Charles Weidman. Leading choreographers of the later 20th century such as Merce Cunningham, Anna Halprin, Jose Limon, Alwin Nikolais and Anna Sokolow participated at the school. The largest portion of students were high school and college level teachers who would spread modern dance across the country and abroad.
About
Elizabeth McPherson is an assistant professor and the dance education coordinator at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey. She has written for Ballet Review, The Journal of Dance Education, Dance Teacher and Attitude: The Dancers’ Magazine. She lives in New York, New York.