Research Catalog

Title

The Bennington school of the dance : a history in writings and interviews / compiled and edited by Elizabeth McPherson ; foreword by Charles Reinhart.

Author

McPherson, Elizabeth M.

Publication

• Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2013]
• ©2013

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Description

viii, 332 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"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 Administrative director Mary Josephine Shelly's previously unpublished writings form a key summary of eight of the nine summer sessions.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 was held from 1934 to 1942"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Bennington (Vt.) > Social life and customs > 20th century
• Bennington School of Dance (Bennington, Vt.) > History > 20th century
• Dance > History > Bennington > 20th century
• Dance schools > Bennington > History > 20th century
• Dance teachers > Bennington > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-314) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Bennington: An Historic Milepost -- 1933: Planning the School -- Summer of 1934: The Beginning -- Summer of 1935: The Workshop Began -- Summer of 1936: The First Festival -- Summer of 1937: The Final Workshop Program, the Fellowships -- Summer of 1938: Culmination of a Plan, or "the Year of the Tent" -- Summer of 1939: From East to West -- Summer of 1940: First Summer of the School of the Arts -- Summer of 1941: Last Summer of the School of the Arts -- Summer of 1942: Bennington College Summer Session -- Looking Back: Group Discussion on the Bennington School of the Dance, 1959 -- Recollections and Anecdotes.

ISBN

• 9780786474172 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 0786474173 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2013014206

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library