Years ago I read a book called Gods Who Dance, written by American dancer Ted Shawn (1891-1972). It tells the tale of his exploratory dance travels. Shawn was one half of Denishawn, a seminal and hugely popular dance company that was the first stadium dance act in the United States. Before them Isadora Duncan had opened people's ideas to new thinking about dance. Isadora looked to the ancient world, Greece, for fi…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 06:49PM on May 4, 2016