SUMMARY: Videotaped on April 10, 1981 by D. A. Pennebaker. Presentation on American dance in transition (the 1920s and 1930s) by Walter Terry. He begins his discussion by citing the achievements of Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, and Ted Shawn, and their legacy to the next generation, which included Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Helen Tamiris, and Hanya Holm. Among the changes noted by Terry in the decades of transition are: the birth of dances of social comment and protest, many of them spurred by the Depression; new ways of looking at dancing, exemplified by Graham's Frontier; the growing sense of reconciliation between the different schools of modern dance as well as between modern dance and ballet; the rise of black dance in the U.S.; and the educational mission of critics such as John Martin.
Call number
*MGZIDF 3524
Note
Video documentation of the festival The early years: American modern dance from 1900 through the 1930s, hosted by SUNY College at Purchase, New York, on April 9-12, 1981, under the sponsorship of State University of New York, University-Wide Programs in the Arts. Festival director: Patricia Kerr Ross. Video producer: Daniel Labeille.
For printed program of the festival, see: *MGZB The early years (1981 : Purchase, N.Y.) [Programs].
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Title
The early years: American dance in transition [electronic resource]
Imprint
1981.
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