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Doris Humphrey was born in Oak Park, Illinois on October 17, 1895. Her mother, Julia Ellen Wells, was a concert pianist who also taught piano, and her father, Horace Buckingham Humphrey, was a journalist and owned the Palace Hotel, which was a home for vaudeville performers. ...
Doris showed an interest in dance at a very young age. ... From kindergarten through high school, Doris shone in Ms. ...
At the age of 15, Doris began teaching ballet and interpretive dance to children. ... At the age of eighteen, Doris opened a dance school in Oak Park. ...
In 1917, Doris was encouraged by Ms. ... ”
In 1928, after a two-year tour of the orient and many years touring the United States, Doris and Charles Weidman left Denishawn to pursue careers in the then new modern dance style. Together they created the Humphrey/Weidman School.
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