HUMPHREY RECONSTRUCTED

From: Dance Spirit | Date: July 1, 2005| Author: Holmes, Kathryn | Copyright information

Nine-year-old students at the Posey School in Northport, NX have been working with dance notators to preserve some of Doris Humphrey's earliest known works, first reconstructed 20 years ago by school director Eisa Posey. The dances are believed to have been conceived by Humphrey while still a student herself in 1914. The score, found in a notebook in the Chicago Public Library Archives, consists of musical notation and written description...

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