Dance

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.

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.

Overview 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.

Overview 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.

Overview 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.

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.

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.

Overview 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...

Overview A group of female dance students pose for a picture in front of a striped tent 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.

Overview A group of modern dancers practice on a lawn 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.