Explore Border Crossings: Exile and American Modern Dance Exhibit
Explore a Modern Dance Exhibit at The Library for Performing Arts
All Photos Courtesy of the Library for the Performing Arts
- October 26th
- 5:00 PM ET
- In-Person
- FREE for Insiders
- Registration Opens on October 12th at 12:00 PM ET
Get an inside look at the newest exhibit inside the Library for Performing Arts, Border Crossings: Exile and American Modern Dance, with Linda Murray, curator and director of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division!
Get up close to costume items worn by Ted Shawn, José Limón, and Carmalita Maracci
Admire drawings by Miguel Covarrubias, Jerome Robbins, and Janet Collins
See rare photographs of Michio Ito, Si-Lan Chen, and Yeichi Nimura
Watch rare dance footage depicting dance forms from the Lindy-Hop to Bharatnatyam







About the event:
Border Crossings: Exile and American Modern Dance, 1900–1955 examines modern dance through an examination of war, exile, inequality, and injustice. The exhibition constructs a new narrative of 20th century modern dance performance with a fuller, more inclusive history focusing on the exiled and marginalized dancers that catalyzed modern dance.
Linda Murray, curator and director of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division at the Library for the Performing Arts, offers a tour of the exhibition, highlighting select objects and histories to present how modern dance came to be.
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