Weidman, Charles
Person
Modern dancer, choreographer and instructor; danced with the Denishawn Dance Company for a time; co-founder of the Humphrey-Weidman Dance Company in New York City
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
Charles Weidman, 1938
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Identifier: D026.01.0001.00001.00017.00001
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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, 1938
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Identifier: D026.01.0001.00001.00017.00002
Overview
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
Overview
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
Overview
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
Dance Clippings: Maxine P. Munt, 1937-1946
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Identifier: D026.01.0001.00001
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Scrapbook created by Maxine Munt, a dancer and dance educator who studied at the Bennington School of the Dance at Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont. Teachers at Bennington included Charles Weidman, Hanya Holm, Doris Humphrey, and Martha Graham. Munt went on to teach modern dance at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, North Dakota, Adelphi College (later Adelphi University) in Long Island, New York, Ashley Hall in Charleston, South Carolina, and at Colorado College in...
Dates:
1937-1946
Exhibition Piece
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Identifier: D002.01.0002.0083.00003
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Doris Humphrey, Jose Limon and Charles Weidman perform together in ''Exhibition Piece.''
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Date Unknown