Bennington School of the Dance (video)
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1938
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Footage taken by participant Doris Isabelle Ewing, a teacher at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI. Transfer of 8mm film: Kodachrome, silent, color, 1938.
Faculty and Staff of the 1938 session: Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Wiedman, and Hanya Holm were in residence. Norman Lloyd, Musical Director. Arch Lauterer, designer for festival production.
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00:21 Charles Weidman, Doris Humphrey, and Humphrey’s son, Charles Woodford
00:29 Doris Humphrey
00:31 Charles Weidman
00:37 Martha Graham
00:45 Martha Graham, Louis Horst enters on left
00:47 Mary Jo Shelly, Administrative Director of the Bennington school of the Dance
00:54 John Martin, dance critic for the New York Times, and his wife, Louise Martin
01:13 Ted Shawn in white robe
01:16 Hanya Holm in black dress with white sash
02:00 Unidentified houses
02:38 Two unidentified women
02:46 Robin Gregory with red hair and cigarette
03:00 Horse and calf
03:30 Member of Doris Humphrey’s group demonstrating Humphrey technique
(possibly Katherine Manning)
04:44 Unidentified dancer in long skirt
05:05 Unidentified dancer (possibly Hortense Lieberthal, assistant to Martha Hill and Bessie Schönberg, demonstrating technique
06:34 Possibly Bill Bales and possibly George Bockman or Billy Archibald
07:43 Possibly Harriette Ann Gray of the Humphrey-Weidman group
09: 08 Erik Hawkins
09:26 Possibly Harriette Ann Gray
09:35 Elizabeth Waters, in orange skirt, from the Hanya Holm group.
10:41 Jane Dudley in white 2 piece demonstrating Graham technique
11:55 Doris Humphrey in red dress
12:03 Jose Limon
12:11 Humphrey group probably “Variations and Conclusion” from New Dance Trilogy (including Katherine Manning circling with leaps)
12:50 Jose Limon
12:50-13:00 Katherine Manning, Doris Humphrey, and unidentified dancer in movement from Passacaglia and Fugue
13:03 Doris Humphrey (movement from Passacaglia and Fugue)
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