Charles Weidman School of Modern Dance.

The Charles Weidman School of Modern Dance Inc., a non-profit organization was established on July 28, 1969, from a donation by Nick Vanoff a one-time member of the Weidman Theatre Dance Company.

The organization combined the already established Theatre Dance Company and Expression of Two Arts (with calligraphist and sculptor, Mikhail Santaro). Weidman became the artistic director of the newly created organization and Linda Mann Reed served as the Executive Vice President. Based on the belief that it was more difficult to obtain support for a dance school, in 1972 the name of the organization was changed to the Charles Weidman Foundation in order to help secure more grant funding. During the early 1970s, the Foundation was engaged in an ambitious program to revive and preserve, through film and notation, dances from the Humphrey/Weidman era as well as Charles Weidman's solo work of the 1950s and 1960s. Although Weidman died on July 15, 1975, the Charles Weidman Dance Foundation continued staging pieces by Doris Humphrey and documenting Weidman's choreographic legacy into the mid-1980s.

From the description of Charles Weidman School of Modern Dance Inc. records, 1918-1972 (bulk 1967-1972) (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 84671742

The Charles Weidman School of Modern Dance Inc., a non-profit organization was established on July 28, 1969, from a donation by Nik Vanoff a one-time member of the Weidman Theatre Dance Company. The organization combined the already established Theatre Dance Company and Expression of Two Arts (with calligraphist and sculptor, Mikhail Santaro). Weidman became the artistic director of the newly created organization. Linda Mann Reed became the Executive Vice President.

In 1972 the name was changed to the Charles Weidman Foundation. This was done to help secure more grant funding. The rationale being that “schools” are not easily funded.

During the early 1970s, the foundation, as it was commonly referred to, was ambitiously working to revive and preserve, through film and notation, dances from the Humphrey/Weidman era as well as Weidman’s solo work of the 1950s and 1960s.

Weidman died on July 15, 1975, however The Charles Weidman Dance Foundation, continued staging pieces by Doris Humphrey and preserving Weidman's choreographic legacy into the mid-1980s.

From the guide to the Charles Weidman School of Modern Dance Inc. records, 1918-1972, 1967-1972, (The New York Public Library. Jerome Robbins Dance Division.)