Walter Terry Quotes & Sayings

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. — Walter Terry

At the outset the matter of Ted's taste arose. — Walter Terry

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. — Walter Terry

A career in dance, however, was by no means even contemplated at this time. — Walter Terry

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

Both Ruth and Ted visited him together and in separate sessions. — Walter Terry

The amazing thing, when she came to do the long-postponed Egypta in 1910, after she had won international fame, was that she did indeed do a work which was not only a day in the life of Egypt but the life of the nation itself, starting with dawn, with prayer, with the river Nile (she was the river itself), with the labors of the working people of Egypt, with temple ceremonies, with entertainment of the pharaoh, and with the final judgment when, before the god Osiris, the heart of Egypt is weighed against the feather of truth. — Walter Terry

The next twenty-five years after the disbanding of the male dancers saw Shawn bring a dance festival of world-wide significance into being. — Walter Terry

Diphtheria struck suddenly, almost fatally. — Walter Terry

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

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

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. — Walter Terry

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

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. — Walter Terry