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Exploring National Roots

Ted Shawn's Invocation to the Thunderbird (001.00.00)

Ted Shawn's Invocation to the Thunderbird
Robertson, photographer. Ted Shawn in his work Invocation to the Thunderbird, 1931. Courtesy of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, Massachusetts (001.00.00)

Lester Horton's Pueblo Eagle Dance (002.00.00)

Lester Horton's Pueblo Eagle Dance
Toyo Miyatake, photographer. Lester Horton in his 1929 work Pueblo Eagle Dance, ca. 1929. Larry Warren Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (002.00.00)

Martha Graham and the American Southwest (003.00.00)

Martha Graham and the American Southwest
Martha Graham and Group in her work Primitive Mysteries, ca. 1931. Martha Graham Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (003.00.00)

Blues Traditions in Jane Dudley’s Harmonica Breakdown (004.00.00)

Blues Traditions in Jane Dudley’s Harmonica Breakdown
Barbara Morgan. Contact sheet of Jane Dudley in her work Harmonica Breakdown, 1938. New Dance Group Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (004.00.00)
© Barbara Morgan, The Barbara Morgan Archive

American Folk Traditions in Sophie Maslow’s Folksay (006.00.00)

American Folk Traditions in Sophie Maslow’s Folksay
David Linton, photographer. Sophie Maslow and William Bales in “Sweet Betsy” from Maslow’s work Folksay, 1942. New Dance Group Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (006.00.00)

Asadata Dafora Explores African Diaspora (007.00.00)

Asadata Dafora Explores African Diaspora
Walter E. Owen, photographer. Asadata Dafora and Bernice Samiels in Dafora’s work A Tale of Old Africa, 1946. New Dance Group Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (007.00.00)

Caribbean Culture Inspires Katherine Dunham (008.00.00)

Caribbean Culture Inspires Katherine Dunham
Jack Mitchell, photographer. April Berry in Katherine Dunham’s work Shango from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s 1987 “The Magic of Katherine Dunham,” ca. 1987. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (008.00.00)
Photo © Jack Mitchell

Alvin Ailey Finds Inspiration in American Spirituals (009.00.00)

Alvin Ailey Finds Inspiration in American Spirituals
Marc Enguerand, photographer. Judith Jamison (center) and members of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Ailey’s Revelations, 1974. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (009.00.00)

Dance and the Works Project Administration (010.00.00)

Dance and the Works Project Administration
Poster for The Eternal Prodigal, 1936. Federal Theatre Project Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (010.00.00)

Helen Tamaris and How Long Brethren (011.00.00)

Helen Tamiris and How Long Brethren
James Cochrane. Costume design for Helen Tamiris’s 1937 How Long Brethren, ca. 1937. Federal Theatre Project Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (011.00.00)

Helen Tamiris (center), Augusta Gassner, Dvo Seron, Ailes Gilmour, Marion Appell, and Lulu Morris in Tamiris’s How Long Brethren. Federal Theatre Project Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (012.00.00)

Katherine Dunham’s L’Ag’Ya (014.00.00)

Katherine Dunham’s L’Ag’Ya
Swisher Studio. “Zombies Dance” from Katherine Dunham’s work L’Ag’Ya, 1938. Federal Theatre Project Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (014.00.00)

Finding a Political Voice

Supporting the Russian Revolution (015.00.00)

Supporting the Russian Revolution
Arnold Genthe, photographer. Isadora Duncan, between 1916 and 1918. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (015.00.00)

Edith Segal and the Red Dancers (016.00.00)

Edith Segal and the Red Dancers
Edith Segal (center) with the Red Dancers in a rehearsal for a memorial to Lenin, ca. 1928. Courtesy of Paul C. Mishler. Victoria Phillips Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (016.00.00)

The New Dance Group (017.00.00)

The New Dance Group
Members of the New Dance Group in Improvisation, 1932. New Dance Group Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (017.00.00)

The Dance Unit (018.00.00)

The Dance Unit
Anna Sokolow and Alex North in Russia, ca. 1934. Larry Warren Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (018.00.00)

Two Songs About Lenin (019.00.00)

Two Songs About Lenin
Sophie Maslow in her work Two Songs about Lenin, ca. 1934. Sophie Maslow Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (019.00.00)

Jane Dudley and the New Dance Group (020.01.00)

Jane Dudley and the New Dance Group
Jane Dudley in her work Song for a Soviet Youth Day, ca. 1937. New Dance Group Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (020.01.00)

Choreographers Protest Against Nazism (023.01.00)

Choreographers Protest Against Nazism
Jane Dudley in her work Under the Swastika, ca. 1937. New Dance Group Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (023.01.00)

Van der Lubbe's Head (021.00.00)

Van der Lubbe's Head
Alfredo Valente, photographer. The New Dance Group performs the collective choreography Van der Lubbe’s Head, 1934. Muriel Manings and William Korff Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (021.00.00)

martha Graham Declines 1936 Olympics Festival (022.00.00)

Martha Graham Declines 1936 Olympics Festival
Invitation to Graham from the Third Reich to participate in the 1936 Summer Olympic Games. Martha Graham Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (022.00.00)

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