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Agnes de Mille

Agnes de Mille in motion.

Martha Graham

Helen Tamiris in Vanity Fair (1925). Photo: Edward Steichen.

Helen Tamiris’ best-known concert piece, How Long Brethren (1937), depicted the despair of unemployed Southern blacks and was danced to Lawrence Gellert’s “Negro Songs of Protest” sung by an African American chorus. She encouraged the inclusion of dance in the WPA Federal Theatre Project and served as principal choreographer from 1937 to 1939. Source: Encyclopedia Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Helen-Tamiris

Helen Tamiris. Photo: Soichi Sunami

Helen Tamiris (1929). Photo: Man Ray

Helen Tamiris

Ingersoll Candy Company and Restaurant (“Where Poinsettia Chocolates are Made”), 1015 5th Street, San Diego, California (circa 1928), where Dorr Bothwell worked as a waitress after her father’s death.

Dorr Bothwell by Ruth Cravath (1923). Bothwell and Cravath became fast friends while attending the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. They were the same age, and remained close friends for the rest of their lives.