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TBT: Donald McKayle’s Rainbow ‘Round My Shoulder at Jacob’s Pillow

Courtney Escoyne

A spread from the August 1984 issue of Dance Magazine. The headline reads, "Margie Gillis: Canada's Free-form Soloist." On the right is a full page, color image of Gillis, shown from the waist up. Her hair is in twin braids. She tips to the right as she looks intently at the camera, arms disappearing out of frame.

TBT: How Margie Gillis Became an In-Demand Solo Performer

Courtney Escoyne

A spread from the May 1939 issue of Dance Magazine showing an article titled "Thumbs Up! Thumbs Down!" An illustration of a thumbs up and thumbs down is followed by black and white headshots of Martha Graham, Arthur Murray, Karen Conrad, Leon Fokine, and Grace and Paul Hartman. Smaller thumsb up and thumbs down are on either side of their headshots, with their quotes beneath.

TBT: Martha Graham, Arthur Murray, and More Share Their Pet Peeves, 1939

Courtney Escoyne

Three people stand in a sunlit dance studio. Danchig-Waring, in white practice clothes, watches attentively as Novak, in all black, gestures toward him with his right hand; McCann, also in all black, looks on.

The Paul Taylor Dance Company Revisits Its Radical Roots in a One-Night-Only Performance

Chava Pearl Lansky

The April 1984 issue of Dance Magazine open to a spread with the headline "Ribeiro, Battle, and Weeks, Broadway's Tap Dance Kids." To the right, Hinton Battle leaps with his arms in a high fifth, right leg extended high to the side. A young Alfonso Ribeiro cheeses at the camera as he jumps a little off the ground in his tap shoes, one foot kicked up behind him. In the bottom left corner, a black and white archival image of Alan Weeks performing.

TBT: Alfonso Ribeiro, Hinton Battle, and Alan Weeks Star in The Tap Dance Kid

Courtney Escoyne

A magazine spread. Across the top is a photo of the Cagelles posing onstage, wearing a riotous rainbow of drag finery. At center bottom is a black and white image of the show's stars, Gene Barry and George Hearn, mid-kick. The story title, at the upper left of the spread, reads "High on Its Heels: Broadway's 'La Cage'."

La Cage aux Folles’ Cagelles, 40 Years Later: Something About Sharing, Something About Always

Jim McDermott

Three pages from the March 1979 issue of Dance Magazine. At the center, a large black and white portrait of Maurice Béjart, under which an article titled "The Creators and the Interpreters" begins. To the left, a performance shot of Jorge Donn in practice clothes in the Balanchine style, surrounded by female dancers in white masks. To the right, a collage of performance shots from the same ballet, showing a dancer wearing enormous wings, another dressed like Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and more.

TBT: Maurice Béjart’s “Difficult” Ballet Dichterliebe

Courtney Escoyne

The February 1949 cover of Dance Magazine in triplicate. Janet Collins perches atop a pillar, knees bench and feet arched, her arms coming to middle fifth. She wears an elaborate but fitted costume and headpiece. Her image is in black and white, cut out against a red background. Cover lines to the left read, "Call Tomorrow by Jack Cole, Dancing in Israel, and The Dancer's Anatomy."

TBT: Why Black Ballerina Janet Collins Turned Down the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo

Courtney Escoyne

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