Ted Shawn : his life, writings, and dances /
The first critical biography of Ted Shawn, the dance legend and self-proclaimed "Father of American Dance" who helped transform dance from a national pastime in theatrical art. The book takes an in-depth look in Shawn's pioneering role in the formation of the first American modern dan...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: firsts and foremost
- The making of personality
- An interesting experiment in Eugenics
- Tales of a Terpsichorean traveler
- America's greatest male dancer
- Seven magic years
- Jacob's pillar.