Thursday, 26 January 2012

Ted Shawn





Ted Shawn (21 October 1891 — 9 January 1972), originally Edwin Myers Shawn, was one of the first notable male pioneers of American modern dance. Along with creating Denishawn with former wife Ruth St. Denis he is also responsible for the creation of the well known all-male company Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers. With his innovative ideas of masculine movement he is one of the most influential choreographer and dancer of his day. He is also the founder and creator of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts.



Together, Shawn and Ruth St. Denis established the principle of Music Visualization in modern dance —- a concept that called for movement equivalents to the timbres, dynamics, and structural shapes of music in addition to its rhythmic base.

Ted Shawn's nine published books provided a foundation for Modern Dance, and particularly Fundamentals of a Dance Education, Dance We Must and Every Little Movement.[12]
  • (1920) Ruth St. Denis: Pioneer and Prophet
  • (1926) The American Ballet
  • (1929) Gods Who Dance
  • (1935) Fundamentals of a Dance Education
  • (1940) Dance We Must
  • (1944) How Beautiful Upon the Mountain
  • (1954) Every Little Movement: a Book About Francois Delsarte
  • (1959) Thirty-three Years of American Dance
  • (1960) One Thousand and One Night Stands (autobiography, with Gray Poole)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Shawn
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  1. Charlotte Vasey19 February 2012 at 09:46

    Ted Shawns main achievement, was that with Ruth St Denis his wife, they created Denishawn that trained many second generation modern dancers such as Dorris Humphrey, Martha Graham and Charles Weidman, it was very popular and sucessful. Shawn was also a very sucessful choerographer and when Martha Graham was part of the Denishawn school he worked closely with her in choreography.

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