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Stage Name |
Birth Name |
Ted
Shawn |
Edwin
M. Shawn |
Ted Shawn had Diphtheria as a college student that left
him Paralyzed for about a year and used dancing as a form
of therapy. Ted was over six feet tall and weighed 175lbs.
Moving to Los Angeles he opened a dance studio and joined
forces with Norma Gould, here he would make one of the first
dance motion pictures 'Dancing of the Ages'. During a tour
in New York he met Ruth
St. Denis (1878-1968) and married her almost immediately
on August 13, 1914. Together they formed the Denishawn studios
and dancers.
He was very much into church related dances and dancing
( Studied to be a minister in college,) and being
over six feet tall and 175 lbs. was not your typical ballet
dancer, so he made many changes in dancing for church purposes
as well as a more masculine form of dancing for large men.
Shawn created many dance works including 'Job, Xochitl,
Cuadro Flamenco'
and more.
He started a all Men's dance troupe that lasted for seven
years ( Till 1933,) which did a great deal to change
Americans minds on Men Dancing and purchased 'Jacobs Pillow'
( Dance retreat) in Lee, Mass. During world war I,
served in the United States Army, first as an enlisted man,
then an Officer. Also published many articles and books
on dance. |
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Birth Place |
Birth Date |
Spouse |
Offspring |
| Kansas
City, MI |
10/21/1891
- 1/9/1972 |
Ruth
St. Denis (1914-1931) |
n/a |
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Dance Types |
Dance Partners |
Music Titles |
| Ballroom |
Norma
Gould |
n/a |
| Ballet |
Ruth
St. Denis |
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| Ethnic Dance |
Ted
Shawn and His Men Dancers |
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| Flamenco |
Barton Mumaw |
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| Modern |
Dennis
Landers |
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| Thematic
Dance |
Frank
Overlees |
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Fred
Hearn |
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Foster Fitz-Simmons |
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Wilbur
Mc Cormack |
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Night Clubs, etc. |
Theaters |
Stage |
| Jacobs
Pillow |
Belasco
Theater** (1942) |
Cosmic
Dances of Shiva |
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Carnegie
Hall* (1934) |
Cuadro
Flamenco |
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Death
Of Adonis |
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Divine
Idiot, The |
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Dome,
The (dancers) |
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Doodle
Dandy of the USA** (1942) |
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Feather
of The Dawn |
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Flamenco
Dances ( Cuadro Flamenco ) |
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Four
American Folk Dances |
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Gnossienne |
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Invocation
to the Thunderbird |
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Jacob's
Pillow Dance Festival |
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Job |
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Kenitec
Molpai |
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Mevlevi
Dervish |
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O
Libertad (dancers) |
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Prometheus
Bound |
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St.
Francis |
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Ted Shawn
and his Male Dancers* |
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Xochitl |
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