Music: On Jacob's Pillow

Down went the house lights, up came the footlights, and there before the curtain stood a tall, grey man whose daring dancing had once shocked the purists and made history in the dance. Ted Shawn, 63, is at home before any audience, but this audience was his special home—Jacob's Pillow, in the Berkshires near Lee, Mass., where he turned a weed-grown farm into the hub and Mecca of dancing in North America. Shawn introduced what he called "the apex of our achievement in presenting dancers at Jacob's Pillow," the Royal Danish Ballet. Then the Danes took over and proved it.

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