Elizabeth McPherson is an assistant professor and the dance education coordinator at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey. She has written for Ballet Review, The Journal of Dance Education, Dance Teacher and Attitude: The Dancers’ Magazine. She lives in New York, New York.

“Recommended”—Choice; “a trove of oral interviews and reports...invaluable for its diverse points of view...photos are as eye-opening as the text”—Dance Magazine; “well researched book...wonderful photographs, many rarely seen or unpublished before, are well presented”—Ballet Review; “instructive and enjoyable”—Bearnstow Journal; “at the core of McPherson’s book are previously unpublished writings of Administrative Director Mary Josephine Shelley, summarizing eight of the nine summer sessions. There is vibrancy in reading about her involvement and how the programs developed...a comprehensive view of the significant role the Bennington summer program played in U.S. modern dance”—Journal of Dance Education.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForeword by Charles ReinhartPrefaceIntroduction1. Bennington: An Historic Milepost2. 1933: Planning the School3. Summer of 1934: The Beginning4. Summer of 1935: The Workshop Began5. Summer of 1936: The First Festival6. Summer of 1937: The Final Workshop Program, the Fellowships7. Summer of 1938: Culmination of a Plan, or “the Year of the Tent”8. Summer of 1939: From East to West9. Summer of 1940: First Summer of the School of the Arts10. Summer of 1941: Last Summer of the School of the Arts11. Summer of 1942: Bennington College Summer Session12. Looking Back: Group Discussion on the Bennington School of the Dance, 195913. Recollections and AnecdotesEpilogueAppendix A: Timeline of Dance Premieres and Other Historic EventsAppendix B: Students, Faculty/Staff and Audiences, 1934 to 1942Appendix C: Biographies of Contributors of RecollectionsChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

Elizabeth McPherson is an assistant professor and the dance education coordinator at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey. She has written for Ballet Review, The Journal of Dance Education, Dance Teacher and Attitude: The Dancers’ Magazine. She lives in New York, New York.

“Recommended”—Choice; “a trove of oral interviews and reports...invaluable for its diverse points of view...photos are as eye-opening as the text”—Dance Magazine; “well researched book...wonderful photographs, many rarely seen or unpublished before, are well presented”—Ballet Review; “instructive and enjoyable”—Bearnstow Journal; “at the core of McPherson’s book are previously unpublished writings of Administrative Director Mary Josephine Shelley, summarizing eight of the nine summer sessions. There is vibrancy in reading about her involvement and how the programs developed...a comprehensive view of the significant role the Bennington summer program played in U.S. modern dance”—Journal of Dance Education.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForeword by Charles ReinhartPrefaceIntroduction1. Bennington: An Historic Milepost2. 1933: Planning the School3. Summer of 1934: The Beginning4. Summer of 1935: The Workshop Began5. Summer of 1936: The First Festival6. Summer of 1937: The Final Workshop Program, the Fellowships7. Summer of 1938: Culmination of a Plan, or “the Year of the Tent”8. Summer of 1939: From East to West9. Summer of 1940: First Summer of the School of the Arts10. Summer of 1941: Last Summer of the School of the Arts11. Summer of 1942: Bennington College Summer Session12. Looking Back: Group Discussion on the Bennington School of the Dance, 195913. Recollections and AnecdotesEpilogueAppendix A: Timeline of Dance Premieres and Other Historic EventsAppendix B: Students, Faculty/Staff and Audiences, 1934 to 1942Appendix C: Biographies of Contributors of RecollectionsChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

Elizabeth McPherson is an assistant professor and the dance education coordinator at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey. She has written for Ballet Review, The Journal of Dance Education, Dance Teacher and Attitude: The Dancers’ Magazine. She lives in New York, New York.

“Recommended”—Choice; “a trove of oral interviews and reports...invaluable for its diverse points of view...photos are as eye-opening as the text”—Dance Magazine; “well researched book...wonderful photographs, many rarely seen or unpublished before, are well presented”—Ballet Review; “instructive and enjoyable”—Bearnstow Journal; “at the core of McPherson’s book are previously unpublished writings of Administrative Director Mary Josephine Shelley, summarizing eight of the nine summer sessions. There is vibrancy in reading about her involvement and how the programs developed...a comprehensive view of the significant role the Bennington summer program played in U.S. modern dance”—Journal of Dance Education.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForeword by Charles ReinhartPrefaceIntroduction1. Bennington: An Historic Milepost2. 1933: Planning the School3. Summer of 1934: The Beginning4. Summer of 1935: The Workshop Began5. Summer of 1936: The First Festival6. Summer of 1937: The Final Workshop Program, the Fellowships7. Summer of 1938: Culmination of a Plan, or “the Year of the Tent”8. Summer of 1939: From East to West9. Summer of 1940: First Summer of the School of the Arts10. Summer of 1941: Last Summer of the School of the Arts11. Summer of 1942: Bennington College Summer Session12. Looking Back: Group Discussion on the Bennington School of the Dance, 195913. Recollections and AnecdotesEpilogueAppendix A: Timeline of Dance Premieres and Other Historic EventsAppendix B: Students, Faculty/Staff and Audiences, 1934 to 1942Appendix C: Biographies of Contributors of RecollectionsChapter NotesBibliographyIndex