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25 November 2010

Jack Cole’s modern-dance roots at the Pillow

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Jack Cole’s extraordinary dance career, which ended in Los Angeles as a beloved dance instructor at UCLA, had its start as a Denishawn dancer, and soon thereafter as one of Ted Shawn’s Male Dancers, visiting in 1931, Shawn’s nascent Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. [...]