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Modern dance

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 1018 Collections and/or Records:

Celeste Grynberg Highlight Reel, 2017

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Identifier: D009.02.0006.0011.00001.00002
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Highlight reel from interview with Celeste Grynberg conducted by Joan Brown. This video covers Celeste's introduction to modern dance in Pennsylvania, visiting New York City and Europe to see dance performances, and her switch to philanthropy.

Dates: 2017

Charles Weidman, 1938

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Identifier: D026.01.0001.00001.00017.00002
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Modern dance choreographer and educator Charles Weidman demonstrates a modern dance routine in a dance studio at Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont. Weidman taught at Bennington School of the Dance at Bennington College, the first center for the study of modern dance in the United States of America.

Dates: 1938

Charles Weidman and Dance Students at Bennington College, 1938

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Identifier: D026.01.0001.00001.00007.00005
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Charles Weidman clowns around with a group of students under a striped tent at Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont. Maxine Munt is visible in the middle foreground. Bennington School of the Dance at Bennington College was the first center for the study of modern dance in the United States of America.

Dates: 1938

Charles Weidman and Doris Humphrey at Bennington College, 1938

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Identifier: D026.01.0001.00001.00007.00003
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Modern dancers, educators, and choreographers Charles Weidman and Doris Humphrey speak to a young boy on the lawn at Bennington College, in Bennington, Vermont. Weidman and Humphrey taught modern dance at Bennington School of the Dance, the first center for the study of modern dance in the United States of America.

Dates: 1938

Charles Weidman and Maxine Munt at Bennington College, 1937

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Identifier: D026.01.0001.00001.00004.00002
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Modern dancer, educator, and choreographer Charles Weidman (left) and Maxine Munt (right), a student of Weidman, stand outside at Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont. Weidman taught modern dance at Bennington School of the Dance at Bennington College, the first center for the study of modern dance in the United States of America.

Dates: 1937

Charles Weidman at Bennington College, 1937

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Identifier: D026.01.0001.00001.00003.00005
Abstract

Modern dancer, choreographer, and dance educator Charles Weidman stands outside at Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont. Bennington School of the Dance at Bennington College was the first center for the study of modern dance in the United States of America.

Dates: 1937

Charles Weidman at Bennington College, 1938

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Identifier: D026.01.0001.00001.00007.00001
Abstract

Modern dancer, educator, and choreographer Charles Weidman stands on lawn outside of Bennington College, in Bennington, Vermont. Weidman taught modern dance at Bennington School of the Dance, the first center for the study of modern dance in the United States of America.

Dates: 1938

Charles Weidman Instructs a Dance Class, 1938

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Identifier: D026.01.0001.00001.00020.00001
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Modern dance choreographer and educator Charles Weidman instructs a class of modern dancers.

Dates: 1938

Charlotte and Girl Jumping, 1947

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Identifier: D109.0001.0001.00014
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Charlotte (on left) and another dancer pose mid jump.

Dates: 1947

Charlotte at Stephens College, 1940

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Identifier: D109.0001.0001.00013
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Charlotte dancing at Stephens College where she taught for 3 years.

Dates: 1940