All dances by Ted Shawn except where noted. Richard Cragun dances Fetish; Les Grands Ballets Canadiens dance Polonaise; interviews with Barton Mumaw, Wilbur McCormack, Frank Overlees, Foster Fitzsimmons, John and Frank Delmar, Jess Meeker and Fred Hearn; narrator, Anne Weiner.
A documentary about Ted Shawn, often called the Father of modern dance, and about the first U.S. all-male dance company that he founded and directed in the 1930's. The film shows interview segments with eight of the original Shawn dancers meeting at a fifty year reunion. The interviews are interspersed with old photographs and archival footage taken in the early 1930's of Shawn and the men dancers at Jacobs Pillar dance theater, Berkshire, Mass., which began in 1933. Dances shown: Polonaise (1933 and 1984), Labor Symphony, Olympiad, Shiva (1925, Ted Shawn), and The Dome.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)35185993
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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