Background
Gertrude Lawton Lippincott was born on June 29, 1913, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States.
Gertrude Lippincott
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States
The University of Minnesota where Gertrude Lippincott received her Bachelor of Arts degree.
New York University, New York, NY 10003, United States
New York University where Gertrude Lippincott received her Master of Arts degree.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States
The University of Minnesota where Gertrude Lippincott received her Bachelor of Arts degree.
New York University, New York, NY 10003, United States
New York University where Gertrude Lippincott received her Master of Arts degree.
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1956
Gertrude Lawton Lippincott was born on June 29, 1913, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States.
Gertrude Lippincott attended the University of Chicago where she studied dance with Marion Van Tuyl. She continued her studies at the University of Minnesota where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude in 1935. In the summers of 1937 and 1938, she attended the Bennington School of Dance where she studied with the greats of American modern dance. She also attended Martha Graham studio (now Martha Graham Dance Company) in 1939. She obtained a Master of Arts degree from New York University in 1943.
Gertrude Lippincott began her performing career with the University of Minnesota Dance Group in the early 1930s and later toured the country with groups and as a soloist. She taught at Mount Holyoke College, Louisiana State University, Mills College, and other institutions. In 1937 she established the Modern Dance Center of Minneapolis where she was a dancer till 1942. It was also one of the first dance groups in the United States to include people of color. She also founded other Minnesota dance companies, including the Modern Dance Group, the Studio Dance Group, the Dance Trio, the Dance Repertory Group, and the Dance Duo. Over the period of her career she gave 107 concerts in twenty-one states plus Washington, D.C. Lippincott was also an instructor and lecturer in dance, and instructed seventy-two master classes in twenty-two states, in over 250 colleges and universities.
From 1943 till 1946 Lippincott was an assistant professor and director of the Dance Program at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. For the next twenty years, she presented solo and group dance concerts. In 1953 she also worked as an assistant dance professor at Mills College. In Minnesota, she was an adjunct professor in the Department of Theatre Arts in 1965-1972. Robert Moulton, the late University of Minnesota Theatre professor, was her dance partner for fifteen years from 1949 till 1964.
In addition to her performing and teaching, she was an associate editor and then an editor of the Dance Observer magazine from 1945 till 1955, and contributed articles to a wide variety of dance publications such as Dance Observer, Dance, Focus on Dance, Dance Scope, Journal of Art and Art Criticism, Creative Dance Journal, Impulse, and Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance. Her writings include Aesthetics and the Dance: A Study of Some Problems in Dance Theory Presented for the Dancer (1943) and Dance Production: Music, Costumes, Staging, Decor, Lighting, Photography, Make-up, Planning, and Rehearsing (1956).
Gertrude Lippincott is remembered as a gifted American dancer. She was especially known as the founder of the Modem Dance Center in Minneapolis, the first modern dance group and school in the area, and recognized for her choreography, performance, company directing, teaching, and dance writing. During her career, she received many awards. These include the 92nd Street Y Audition Award (1944) and Choreographic Awards (1948 and 1949), the 1964 Copper Foot Award from Wayne State University, the 1973 Heritage Award from AAHPERD National Conference, the 1974 Distinguished Teachers Award from the American Dance Guild, the Founding Fellow Award from the National Council for the Arts in Education, the National Retired Teachers Award from the American Dance Guild, an award from Minneapolis Jewish Community Center (1979) and the Outstanding Achievement Award from the University of Minnesota (1982). The Gertrude Lippincott Award was named in her honor.
Lippincott was a founding member of the Congress on Research in Dance and was involved in several national organizations including the Dance Critics Association, the American Dance Guild, the National Dance Association, and the Society of Dance History Scholars.
Physical Characteristics: The cause of Lippincott's death was a stroke.
Quotes from others about the person
"She was really inspiring to performers and educators in the dance world. She was a remarkable dance doctor." - Judith Brin Ingber
Gertrude Lippincott married Benjamin Evans Lippincott in 1934.
Benjamin Evans Lippincott (November 26, 1902 - November 10, 1988) began teaching political science at the University of Minnesota in 1929. He was a liaison officer at the United States Air Force Academy in 1959-1962 and a historian at Thirteenth Air Force, South and Southwest Pacific. He served in other capacities for the Department of Defense and received the Legion of Merit.
