Reminiscences of Claudia Moore Read : oral history, 1979.

Biographical Note

Modern dance instructor.

Scope and Contents

Physical education and dance training at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1930-1934; Bennington Summer School of the Dance, 1934: classes with Graham, Humphrey, Holm and Hill, Dalcroze Eurhythmics; teaching summer school techniques at University of Nebraska; studies at Mary Wigman School, Germany, summer of 1936; Bennington Summer School of the Dance, 1938: inter-company rivalries, PASSACAGLIA; Mills College Summer School, 1939; Bennington Summer School of the Arts, 1940-1942; DECADE; importance and demise of Bennington Summer School; reminiscences of Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman and many others.

Subjects

• Bennington College.
• Bowers, Theresa, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Dancers--Interviews.
• Dance teachers--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Modern dance.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Read, Claudia Moore--Interviews.

Access Conditions

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