Gus Solomons Research Paper

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Gus Solomons was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was also raised here, and started training pretty seriously in modern dance and in ballet while he attended MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) as an architecture student. He was also a former member of a local dance company dubbed the “Dance Makers”, while there, this is where he experimented with his solo choreography. He soon after graduated from MIT with a Bachelors degree in Architecture, a year after Solomons moved to New York City with a "burning itch to perform and make dances".

Lester Horton was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on 1/23/1906. His interests in dance erupted due to his fascination with American Indian culture after he watched tribal dances at Wild

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