Reminiscences of Gertrude Shurr [electronic resource] : oral history, 1979.

Biographical Note

Dancer, teacher.

Scope and Contents

Experiences at Bennington, 1934-1938; work as company member and as teaching assistant to Martha Graham; Graham technique at the time compared with modern Graham technique and Humphrey and Holm techniques of the 1930s; importance of Bennington to development of modern dance.

Subjects

• Bennington College.
• Bowers, Theresa, interviewer.
• Choreography.
• Dancers--Interviews.
• Dance teachers--Interviews.
• Goldner, Nancy, interviewer.
• Graham, Martha.
• Interviews.
• Modern dance.
• Oral histories.
• Shurr, Gertrude--Interviews.
• Teachers--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1982.