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Directing the Dance Legacy of Doris Humphrey S O C I E T Y O F DA N C E HI S T O RY S C H O L A R S The Society of Dance History Scholars (SDHS) advances the field of dance studies through research, publication, performance, and outreach to audiences across the arts, humanities, and social sciences. As a constituent member of the American Council of Learned Societies, SDHS holds wide-ranging annual conferences, publishes new scholarship through its book series and proceedings, collaborates regularly with peer institutions in the United States and abroad, and presents yearly awards for exemplary scholarship. www.sdhs.org SDHS President: Thomas DeFrantz, Duke University SDHS Editorial Board Chair: Ann Cooper Albright, Oberlin College Sarah Davies Cordova, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Sherril Dodds, Temple University Norma Sue Fisher-Stitt, York University Ellen Graff, The New School Darcey Callison, York University Vida Midgelow, University of Northampton Gay Morris, New York, New York Yutian Wong, San Francisco State University Rebecca Rosen, University of Texas at Austin [3.237.186.170] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 23:10 GMT) Directing the Dance Legacy of Doris Humphrey The Creative Impulse of Reconstruction Lesley Main The University of Wisconsin Press Publication of this volume has been made possible, in part, through support from the Anonymous Fund of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The University of Wisconsin Press 1930 Monroe Street, 3rd Floor Madison, Wisconsin 53711-2059 uwpress.wisc.edu 3 Henrietta Street London WC2E 8LU, England eurospanbookstore.com Copyright © 2012 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any format or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording , or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a website without written permission of the University of Wisconsin Press, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles and reviews. Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Main, Lesley Directing the dance legacy of Doris Humphrey : the creative impulse of reconstruction / Lesley Main. p. cm. (Studies in dance history) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-299-28584-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-299-28583-8 (e-book) 1. Humphrey, Doris, 1895–1958—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Modern dance—Production and direction. I. Title. I. Series: Studies in dance history. GV1783.M28 2012 792.028092—dc22 [B] 2011015990 [3.237.186.170] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 23:10 GMT) This book is dedicated to Penny, Gabriel, and Celie, who share my dance through life, and to the memory of Doris Humphrey and Ernestine Stodelle, without whom that dance would be so much less. When we move we stand revealed for what we are. —Doris Humphrey ...