Dancing Originally Occupation Limited to Men Alone, by Ted Shawn (May 17, 1936)
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An article titled "Dancing Originally Occupation Limited to Men Alone" written by Ted Shawn and published by the Boston Herald in May 17, 1936. This article is the Eighteenth in a series of 27 articles about dancing written by Ted Shawn and published between April 7 and June 9, 1936 by the Boston Herald. This article focuses on the male influence upon dancing across the ages, where Shawn argues how the prejudice against male dancing on the 1930’s was based only on the last 100 years where dancing had been considered a feminine enterprise. For biographical information on Ted Shawn, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/584.
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