The Y located at 92nd Street and Lexington Avenue in New York City
is the largest and oldest continuously operating YM-YWHA in the US.
Many of the most important figures in modern dance premiered on its
stage, but until now no one has thought to ask why this should have
been so. As Naomi Jackson shows in Converging Movements, the Y's
particular conception of Jewishness laid the groundwork for the
establishment of a center for dance in the 1930s.
William Kolodney, who served as the Y's education director from
1934 until 1969, expanded its educational and arts programming to
include a great deal of nonsectarian material, and as Jackson
shows, modern dance epitomized Kolodney's humanistic ideals
regarding the uplifting role of the arts.
Together with his dance advisors, most notably Doris Humphrey, John
Martin, and Louis Horst, Kolodney oversaw a program characterized
by a broad mix of Jewish and non-Jewish performers from Alvin
Ailey, Katherine Dunham, and Ruth St. Denis to Anna Sokolow, Jose
Limon, Erick Hawkins, Hanya Holm, Pearl Primus, and national and
folk companies from Israel, the Philippines, Russia, Mexico, and
elsewhere. Drawing on the Y's extensive archives and illustrated
with rare photographs, Jackson's book locates modern dance at the
heart of the Jewish encounter with America.
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