Oral history interview with Helen B. Knight [electronic resource], 1979.

Biographical Note

Modern dance instructor.

Scope and Contents

Early ballet experience, Chicago; dance instructor positions; student, New York University summer camp 1930-33; Bennington Summer School, 1935; classes of Martha Hill, Norman Lloyd and Louis Horst; augmented group, Holm's TREND, summer 1937; comparison of Bennington, Mills and Connecticut College summer schools; Graham technique; dance and politics; physical education circuit; recollections of several dancers.

Subjects

• Bennington College.
• Bowers, Theresa, interviewer.
• Dance teachers--Interviews.
• Interviews
• Knight, Helen B.--Interviews.
• Modern dance.
• Oral histories