Quotes from Walter Terry

By disparaging ballet he succeeded very well in convincing the boys that ballet was not for Americans, that it was European in origin and in continuing character.

He adored telling this story of near disaster and how he had triumphed, just as he relished the report of how he went on stage every night on tour in his The Cosmic Dance of Shiva, requiring all manner of spinal flexibilities and related actions, while his sacroiliac was painfully out of place.

Diphtheria struck suddenly, almost fatally.

With Ted she was about to discover the God of Physical Love.

With the founding of Denishawn, Ted Shawn stated the artistic creed which was to guide the school, the company and, indeed, his whole life in dance.

At the outset the matter of Ted's taste arose.

Near the end of his life he went into a tirade about people who had been "disloyal" to him, triggered by the most recent defection.

Ted did part of St. Denis's poetry tours with her.

Both Ruth and Ted visited him together and in separate sessions.

There were bickerings, outright fights, screaming tantrums, but Ted's vision of the Greater Denishawn had come true.

But that closing night at Carnegie was without a hint of decline.

When it was all over, the dancers who had been long in Shawn's service were given either a substantial (for those days) cash reward (or severance pay) or a parcel of Jacob's Pillow land.