Lucy Phelps Lampkin papers 1920-1967

Shawn, Ted, 1891-1972

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In 1915 they founded the first Denishawn school in Los Angeles with the intent of providing students with a diversified dance education. They believed that a dancer should learn all styles of dance rather than concentrating on one form; therefore, they offered classes in ballet, modern, ethnic, and creative dance. Within a few years Shawn and Miss St. Denis had established Denishawn schools throughout the United States. They built up an extensive repertory of spiritual, ethnic, character, and “m...

Marsh, Lucile, 1899-

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Lucile Marsh was born November 13, 1899 and attended high school in Bridgeport, Connecticut, graduating in 1916. She received a B.A. from Barnard College in New York in 1920, and studied at the Dalcroze School of Eurythmics that summer. While at Barnard she began teaching dance, dramatics and speech in her own studio. Marsh spent the next four years studying and teaching at Smith College in Massachusetts, publishing her first book during this period, Dance in Education (1924), co-au...

Duncan, Irma

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Irma Duncan was born Irma Dorette Ehrich-Grimme on February 26, 1897, in Schleswig-Holstein near Hamburg. Becoming a pupil of Isadora Duncan in January 1905 at her Grunewald School near Berlin, she later, along with five other original pupils, was adopted by Isadora. Her name was legally changed to Irma Duncan in 1917. In 1918 the six formed an independent group known as the Isadora Duncan Dancers. Irma's debut as such occurred at Carnegie Hall on June 27 of that year. ...

Lucy Lampkin School of the Dance.

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Fokine, Michel, 1880-1942

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Mikhail Fokine, Russian dancer, choreographer, teacher, and ballet director, was born in St. Petersburg May 5, 1880. He was trained at the Imperial Theatre School, St. Petersburg where he graduated in 1898. He was a dancer and choreographer at the Maryinsky Theatre and teacher at the Imperial Theatre School. His choreography for the Maryinsky included The Dying Swan for Anna Pavlova and Le Pavillion d'Armide. From 1909-1912, Fokine was chief choreographer for Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev, p...

Duncan, Elizabeth, 1871-1948

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St.Denis, Ruth, 1880-1968

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Ruth St. Denis was an American dancer and dance teacher. From the description of Postcard, 1945. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007242 Dancer and faculty member. From the description of Miscellaneous papers, 1926-1960. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155538190 Ruth St. Denis was one of the pioneers of modern dance. She first gained attention dancing with David Belasco's company, an experience which exposed her to European and Asian tradition...

Lampkin, Lucy

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Dance teacher, Lucy Phelps Lampkin (born 1903), who trained with many notable figures in the fields of modern dance and dance education (including Lucile Marsh and Ruth St. Denis), operated her own dance studio in her native Athens, Georgia for many years. Lampkin opened the Lucy Lampkin School of the Dance and Related Arts in 1928 and continued to direct it through 1968. She had studied many dance forms intensively in New York and Europe, working with Michel Fokine (bal...