The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.

She was the daughter of Horace Buckingham Humphrey a journalist and one-time hotel manager and Julia Ellen Wells who had trained as a concert pianist. She then took up the position of artistic director for the José Limón Dance Company and continued to successfully choreograph works such as Day on Earth Night Spell and Ruins and Visions. As many of her works were annotated Humphrey continues to be taught studied and performed to this day.

Denis and Ted Shawn – in exploring the use of breath and developing techniques still taught today. Doris Batcheller Humphrey (October 17 1895 – December 29 1958) was a dancer and choreographer of the early twentieth century. Along with her contemporaries Martha Graham and Katherine Dunham Humphrey was one of the second generation modern dance pioneers who followed their forerunners – including Isadora Duncan Ruth St.