Humphrey’s 1931 creation, performed to mark the centennial of Shaker Heights, is 10 minutes of sexual frustration. As they attempt to rid themselves of sin, the citizens of a Shaker community shudder, hop and lurch in desperation, almost making contact...

Additional foundations, institutes and trusts are pivotal in maintaining the accessibility of masterworks by José Limón, Doris Humphrey and George Balanchine (among other choreographers whose works have lived long past their deaths). Accessibility will...

But each modern master creates his or her own language, so that when he or she is gone, the work is dangerously vulnerable. Certain modern masters like Doris Humphrey have essentially vanished. The Martha Graham company keeps coming back to greater or...

Shaker sect, founded in England in the 18th century and transplanted to New England, has inspired many dance artists, from Doris Humphrey to the Finnish Tero Saarinen. Now Martha Clarke and playwright Alfred Uhry have transformed a handful of Shaker...

Doris Humphrey barely hinted at underlying sexual tensions in her ecstatic 1931 dance The Shakers. The Finnish choreographer Tero Saarinen downplayed them in his glorious Borrowed Light (2004). Watching Angel Reapers, which plays at the Joyce Theater...

So too in Untitled (Agon) (2007) in which Lassry filmed two dancers performing the pas de deux from George Balanchine’s 1957 ballet Agon from multiple vantage points, each angle based on Doris Humphrey’s The Art of Making Dances (1958). Many of these...