Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Jonathan Hollander and Battery Dance Festival will include five Denishawn dances ...

ASHBY — Marion Rice was an entrepreneur, a creative artist, an educator, a performer and a visionary — a lover of all things dance — and a pioneer in the new field of modern dance. “She was serious ...

(Shawn and his wife, Ruth St. Denis, were America's leading dance couple and ran the Denishawn Dance Company.) In Becket, according to Jacob's Pillow's historical archives, he began an artistic ...

“Who’s Martha Graham?” After hearing the question for the third time, I figured that I should stop taking it for granted that everyone just knew. Widely considered the mother of modern dance — and ...

Graham studied for several years with Denishawn before breaking off to form her own company and style in the 1930s. By the 1920s Americans had become more comfortable with dance. Although Denishawn ...