The Bennington School of the Dance

A History in Writings and Interviews

Buch | Softcover

340 Seiten

2013
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-7417-2 (ISBN)

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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 Administrative director Mary Josephine Shelly's previously unpublished writings form a key summary of eight of the nine summer sessions.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.

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Charles Reinhart

Preface

Introduction

1. Bennington: An Historic Milepost

2. 1933: Planning the School

3. Summer of 1934: The Beginning

4. Summer of 1935: The Workshop Began

5. Summer of 1936: The First Festival

6. Summer of 1937: The Final Workshop Program,

the Fellowships

7. Summer of 1938: Culmination of a Plan, or “the Year of the Tent”

8. Summer of 1939: From East to West

9. Summer of 1940: First Summer of the School of the Arts

10. Summer of 1941: Last Summer of the School of the Arts

11. Summer of 1942: Bennington College Summer Session

12. Looking Back: Group Discussion on the Bennington School of the Dance, 1959

13. Recollections and Anecdotes

Epilogue

Appendix A: Timeline of Dance Premieres and Other Historic Events

Appendix B: Students, Faculty/Staff and Audiences, 1934 to 1942

Appendix C: Biographies of Contributors of Recollections

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Zusatzinfo	61 photos, appendices, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	449 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
ISBN-10	0-7864-7417-3 / 0786474173
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-7417-2 / 9780786474172
Zustand	Neuware