Dance Clippings: Maxine P. Munt, 1937-1946

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 Colorado Springs, Colorado. In 1966, Munt and her husband Alfred Brooks moved to Denver, Colorado and founded a theater called The Changing Scene. Munt died in 2005. The scrapbook contains material (photographs, newspaper clippings, programs, fliers, and letters) documenting Munt's time at the Bennington School of the Dance at Bennington College, the University of North Dakota, Adelphi College, Ashley Hall, and Colorado College.