I danced with the Louisville Civix Ballet under Nels Jorgensen in April 1970 at the Brown Theatre for the Louisville premiere of Doris Humphrey's "Shakers." This video is fairly accurate to the original choreography as I remembered. Our troupe repeated the ballet in Pleasant Hill, KY at the restored village known as Shakertown, near Harrodsburg, KY. We presented it in the Shaker community hall where the Kentucky Shakers held their weekly worship services in the 19th century.
It’s Doris Humphrey, so you’d think it was pretty exhaustively researched, at least as far as the individual movements. Dunno that Shaker dancing was done in 8s at a steady tempo; my best guess is the genuine article was more of a free-form, personal “shake devil out of my body” kinda thing.
@@jackjude i read that in the early days they were chaotic, but they started doing precisely choreographed dance, also they created thousands of dances and songs so some probably looked like this and a lot probably didn't
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I danced with the Louisville Civix Ballet under Nels Jorgensen in April 1970 at the Brown Theatre for the Louisville premiere of Doris Humphrey's "Shakers." This video is fairly accurate to the original choreography as I remembered. Our troupe repeated the ballet in Pleasant Hill, KY at the restored village known as Shakertown, near Harrodsburg, KY. We presented it in the Shaker community hall where the Kentucky Shakers held their weekly worship services in the 19th century.
Thanks for your personal history with this. How amazing to know it was actually performed in a Shaker Space.
Look at us. Thirty years ago now. I can't tell who's who. But you know what, it aint bad!
How accurate or abstracted is this compared to actual Shaker dancing?
It’s Doris Humphrey, so you’d think it was pretty exhaustively researched, at least as far as the individual movements. Dunno that Shaker dancing was done in 8s at a steady tempo; my best guess is the genuine article was more of a free-form, personal “shake devil out of my body” kinda thing.
@@jackjude i read that in the early days they were chaotic, but they started doing precisely choreographed dance, also they created thousands of dances and songs so some probably looked like this and a lot probably didn't