The Kenneth Rinker Collection 1964-1987

Jacob's Pillow

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Jacob's Pillow is a dance center, school and performance space located in Becket, Massachusetts, in the Berkshires. The organization is known for the oldest internationally acclaimed Summer dance festival in the United States. The facility also includes a professional school and extensive archives as well as year-round community programs. The facility itself was listed as a National Historic Landmark District in 2003. The site of Jacob's Pillow in Becket, Massachusetts was originally settled ...

Rinker, Kenneth

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Mara Penrose

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Kenneth Rinker is an American choreographer and modern dance performer. He studied modern dance at the University of Maryland College Park from 1964-1967 and in New York City with Ethel Butler, Charles Weidman, Erick Hawkings, at the Martha Graham School, and was under scholarship at the Cunningham School. During this period also began a long-term collaboration with composer Sergio Cervetti. From 1970 to 1979 he was a member of Twyla Tharp's dance company and the first male dancer to join. From ...

Kenneth Rinker Dance Company

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Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation

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Jowitt, Deborah.

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Tharp, Twyla

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Twyla Tharp is American modern dancer and choreographer. She was born 1 July 1941 in Portland, Indiana and grew up in Rialto, California. She attended Pomona College and received the Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College in 1963. As a child she studied ballet, tap, flamenco, baron twirling, acrobatics, and several musical instruments. While in California, she studied dance with Beatrice Collenette, Wilson Morelli, John Butler, Carmen de Lavallade, and at the Lester Horton stu...

American Dance Festival

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Modern dance festival founded in 1934 in Bennington, Vermont. From the description of Records, 1977-1995 and n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36109678 The American Dance Festival is a non-profit organization committed to serving the needs of dance, dancers, choreographers, and professionals in dance-related fields. It presents a six and a half week summer festival of modern dance performances and educational programs, hosts community outreach activities, a...

Cervetti, Sergio

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University of Maryland at College Park.

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Siegel, Marcia

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Greenfield, Lois

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