The Dance Historian Is In: Meg Brooker on Noyes School of Rhythm
About this Event
This program will be offered both in person and virtually.
In 1912, women's suffrage performer and Progressive education advocate Florence Fleming Noyes founded the Noyes School of Rhythm. The school has maintained over a century of continuous history, primarily through annual summer programming at Shepherd’s Nine in Portland, CT, where several generations of dancers, living in community, have preserved and passed down Noyes’ image-driven somatic dance practice. This presentation contextualizes the Noyes School within the early modern dance landscape, including intersections with Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, and features film screening of a solo danced by Florence Fleming Noyes in 1914 as part of the women’s suffrage movement, as well as a dance film produced by the Noyes School at the Temple of Poseidon at Sounion in Greece in 1934. Meg Brooker is a Professor of Dance and certified teacher of Noyes Rhythm, with more than twenty years of training, and holds the Lucy and Steve Weinstein Endowed Chair of Theatre and Dance at The University of Alabama. Her work with the Noyes School of Rhythm archives has been supported by multiple grants, including a Preservation Assistance grant from the NEH.
Photo Credit: Florence Fleming Noyes, Founder of the Noyes School of Rhythm. From a Snapshot known as “The Flying Picture.” Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
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