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School in Berlin-Grunewald, Germany
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In 1915, St. Denis and Shawn started the Denishawn school in Los Angeles. Ballet moves without shoes, ethnic and traditional dances, Dalcroze Eurhythmics, and Delsarte gymnastics were all studied by the students.
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Humphrey relocated to California, where she studied, performed, taught workshops, and acquired choreography at the Denishawn School of Dancing & Related Arts.
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Graham danced the title character of Xochitl in this piece choreographed by Ted Shawn about an Indian Princess. Emperor Tepancaltzin was played by Ted Shawn. Martha remembers something that happened during a performance.
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Isadora alluded to her communism during her last United States tour
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Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance was established in a small studio on the Upper East Side.
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Humphrey and Weidmanquit Denishawn to start their own school and business. Humphrey desired to depart from Denishawn's sentimentalism and romanticism in favor of a new dance language and technique that was really "contemporary."
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first concert made up of solos, Graham created Heretic
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Shawn set up Men Dancers who worked at Jacob's Pillow.
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Dunham formed a group called Ballets Nègres, one of the first black ballet companies in the United States.
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Negro Dance Group. It was a school for Dunham to teach young black dancers about their African heritage.
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Primus began her formal study of dance with the New Dance Group under founders, Jane Dudley, Sophie Maslow & William Bates.
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Pearl Primus receives a Rosenwald Foundation scholarship to travel to Africa to study dance, which would become the first of many research trips.
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Ailey said that one of America’s richest treasures was the African-American cultural heritage—“sometimes sorrowful, sometimes jubilant, but always hopeful
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