Lester Horton Dance Theater

Lester Horton and several partners founded the Dance Theater, a modern dance company, in Hollywood, Calif., in 1946. Throughout Horton's career, he combined dance and drama into a total theatrical experience. He was intimately involved in creating all aspects of a production: the costumes, sets, lighting, and music as well as the scenarios and choreography. His fascination with ethnic dance, human sensuality, and cultural history was expressed in a prodigious body of work with themes ranging from the classics to melodrama, social concerns to farce. Horton's "choreodramas" were built on a movement technique that is still taught and used in dance schools and companies. The Dance Theater closed its doors in 1960.

From the description of Lester Horton Dance Theater collection, 1926-1996 (bulk 1940-1959). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71055584

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