Modern dance

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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.

Abstract 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...

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Doris Humphrey performs an unidentified dance in the grass.

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Modern dancer, educator, and choreographer Doris Humphrey stands outside on lawn at Bennington College, in Bennington Vermont. 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.

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Doris Humphrey, Jose Limon and Charles Weidman perform together in ''Exhibition Piece.''

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Photographs of modern dancer Doris Humphrey performing in various dances.

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Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman perform in ''Quest.''

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Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman and the ensemble perform together in ''With My Red Fires.''