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Ted Shawn - His Life, Writings, and Dances (Hardcover)
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Ted Shawn - His Life, Writings, and Dances (Hardcover)
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Ted Shawn (1891-1972), is the self-proclaimed "Father of American
Dance" who helped to transform dance from a national pastime into
theatrical art. In the process, he made dancing an acceptable
profession for men and taught several generations of dancers, some
of whom went on to become legendary choreographers and performers
in their own right, most notably his protegees Martha Graham,
Louise Brooks, Doris Humphrey, and Charles Weidman. Shawn tried for
many years and with great frustration to tell the story of his
life's work in terms of its social and artistic value, but
struggled, owing to the fact that he was homosexual, a fact known
only within his inner circle of friends. Unwilling to disturb the
meticulously narrated account of his paternal exceptionalism, he
remained closeted, but scrupulously archived his journals,
correspondence, programs, photographs, and motion pictures of his
dances, anticipating that the full significance of his life,
writing, and dances would reveal itself in time. Ted Shawn: His
Life, Writings, and Dances is the first critical biography of the
dance legend, offering an in-depth look into Shawn's pioneering
role in the formation of the first American modern dance company
and school, the first all-male dance company, and Jacob's Pillow,
the internationally renowned dance festival and school located in
the Berkshires. The book explores Shawn's writings and dances in
relation to emerging discourses of modernism, eugenics and social
evolution, revealing an untold story about the ways that Shawn's
homosexuality informed his choreographic vision. The book also
elucidates the influences of contemporary writers who were leading
a radical movement to depathologize homosexuality, such as the
British eugenicist Havelock Ellis and sexologist Alfred Kinsey, and
conversely, how their revolutionary ideas about sexuality were
shaped by Shawn's modernism.
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