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Article: Fall and recovery: a tribute to Doris Humphrey.(modern dance pioneer)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- October 1, 1995
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A century ago, Horace Buckingham Humphrey and his wife, Julia Wells Humphrey, announced to the world the birth of a daughter destined to become a new kind of artist in the country where her ancestors had lived for generations.
By the time Doris Humphrey was five, her father, a newspaperman, and her mother, a graduate of the Boston Conservatory of Music, had been reduced to earning a living by working as manager and housekeeper, respectively, of a seedy theatrical hotel. They nevertheless found the money to send the little girl with the dark red ringlets and violet-blue eyes to a private school. There Doris received a progressive education that included clogging, ...