National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame
The National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame, in the Saratoga Spa State Park, Saratoga Springs, New York, was established in 1986. It contains photographs, videos, artifacts, costumes and biographies. The museum is located in the former Washington Bath House and was founded by Marylou Whitney. It is related to the Saratoga Performing Arts Center and also provides dance classes and master classes through the Lewis A. Swyer School for the Arts, which hosts the New York State Summer School of the Arts during July and August.
The National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame purposed a mission from its very foundation. It was "to cultivate, promote, foster, sponsor, and develop among its members and the community at large, the appreciation, understanding, taste, and love of the Musical Arts, especially the Dance; to create a National Hall of Fame for the advancement of such purposes; to secure the interest of the patrons of these Arts, and to promote and encourage the means for popular instruction and enjoyment thereof."The Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame collection was provided to the Museum in 1987. The Hall of Fame annually inducts individuals from the dance world.Inductees
List of the inductees into the Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame of the National Museum of Dance.
1987 Inductees
Fred Astaire
George Balanchine
Agnes de Mille
Isadora Duncan
Katherine Dunham
Martha Graham
Doris Humphrey
Lincoln Kirstein
Catherine Littlefield
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
Ruth St. Denis
Ted Shawn
Charles Weidman
1988 Inductees
Busby Berkeley
Lucia Chase
Hanya Holm
John Martin
Antony Tudor
1989–1999 Inductees
Jerome Robbins
Alvin Ailey
Merce Cunningham
Bronislava Nijinska
Paul Taylor
José Limón
Anna Sokolow
Barbara Karinska
Arthur Mitchell
2000–2010 Inductees
Robert Joffrey
Trisha Brown
Alwin Nikolais
Nicholas Brothers
Léonide Massine
Edwin Denby
Igor Stravinsky
Arthur and Kathryn Murray
The New Dance Group 1932
Bob Fosse
Bill T. Jones
Peter Martins
Tommy Tune
Marge Champion
Suzanne Farrell
Edward Villella
Frankie Manning
Michael Jackson
2011–2012 Inductees
Frederic Franklin
Oliver Smith
Ben Vereen
2012–2013 Inductees
Anna Pavlova
Judith Jamison
2013–2014 Inductees
Gene Kelly
Jacques d'Amboise
2014–2015 Inductees
Rudolf Nureyev
Mark Morris
2015–2016 Inductees
Gregory Hines
Patricia Wilde
2017 Inductees
Lewis A. Swyer
Marylou Whitney
2018 Inductees
Alfredo Corvino
Lucinda Childs
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