Barton Mumaw, dancer
Subtitle: from Denishawn to Jacob's Pillow and beyond
By: by Jane Sherman and Barton Mumaw.
Contributors: Mumaw, Barton, 1912-
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press; University Press of New England
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Hanover [N.H.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
Subjects: Mumaw, Barton, 1912-; Denishawn School of Dancing -- History; Dancers -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Barton Mumaw, a soloist in Ted Shawn's Men Dancers Company (1933-1940), participated with his mentor in Shawn's lifelong struggle to win respectability for male dancers within American culture. In this "as told to" autobiography, Mumaw relates dramatic stories of the company's groundbreaking cross-country tours, of their building Jacob's Pillow from pre-Revolutionary hardscrabble to preeminent dance festival, and tells for the first time of his intimate relationship with dance pioneer Ted Shawn. This is revealed through details of their lives together and apart, descriptions of their dances, and a selection of rare photographs.

This memoir, first published in 1986, will engage the general reader and is bound to attract scholars who seek to conjoin the many current works in gay and lesbian studies with today's equally numerous critical works in dance."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: New York : Dance Horizons, c1986. With new foreword.