Feminist modernist dance

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Notes

1 Eliot, “The Ballet,” 50.

2 Rishona Zimring contributed an essay on dancer/choreographer/anthropologist Dunham to the debut issue of this journal, “Katherine Dunham’s Chicago Stage.”

3 Olson, Chicago Avant-Garde, 50.

4 Taylor, The Archive and the Repertoire, XVI.

5 “The West Side’s Turn.” The New York Times. April 25, 1955. Graham and DiGiulio take this quote from Ballon and Jackson, Robert Moses and the Modern City, 280.

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Melissa Bradshaw

Melissa Bradshaw teaches at Loyola University Chicago. Her research focuses on the cultural rhetorics that inform our understanding of powerful public women. She has published extensively on the American poet Amy Lowell, co-editing a volume of her poems as well as a volume of scholarly essays about her. Her book, Amy Lowell, Diva Poet won the 2011 MLA Book Prize for Independent Scholars. She is currently working on a critical digital edition Lowell's collected letters, for which she was recently awarded an NEH-Mellon Foundation Fellowship for Digital Publication, as well as a monograph on celebrity poets and ephemera.

Jessica Ray Herzogenrath

Jessica Ray Herzogenrath researches U.S. cultural history, in particular performances. Drawing on her experience performing, choreographing, and teaching dance, she explores how embodied practices simultaneously reveal long-established cultural traditions and hold the potential for immediate change. She is an Instructional Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Texas A&M University, writes for Dance Source Houston, and serves as the (founding) board president for Social Movement Contemporary Dance.