Barton Mumaw, dancer
from Denishawn to Jacob's Pillow and beyond
by Jane Sherman
"Barton Mumaw, a soloist in Ted Shawn's Men Dancers Company (1933-1940), participated with his mentor in Shawn's lifelong struggle to win respectability for male dancers within American culture. In this "as told to" autobiography, Mumaw relates dramatic stories of the company's groundbreaking cross-country tours, of their building Jacob's Pillow from pre-Revolutionary hardscrabble to preeminent dance festival, and tells for the first time of his intimate relationship with dance pioneer Ted Shawn. This is revealed through details of their lives together and apart, descriptions of their dances, and a selection of rare photographs.
This memoir, first published in 1986, will engage the general reader and is bound to attract scholars who seek to conjoin the many current works in gay and lesbian studies with today's equally numerous critical works in dance."--Jacket.
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Biography, Dancers, Denishawn School of Dancing, History, Dancers, biography, United states, biographyPeople
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Barton Mumaw, dancer: from Denishawn to Jacob's Pillow and beyond
2000, Wesleyan University Press, University Press of New England
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0819564532 9780819564535
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Barton Mumaw, dancer: from Denishawn to Jacob's Pillow and beyond
1986, Dance Horizons
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0871271389 9780871271389
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