The National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame, in the Saratoga Spa State Park, Saratoga, New York, was established in 1986 and is the only museum in the nation dedicated entirely to dance. It contains photographs, videos, artifacts, costumes and biographies. The museum is located in the former Washington Bath House and was founded in 1986 by Marylou Whitney. It is related to the Saratoga Performing Arts Center and also provides dance classes and master classes through the Lewis A. Swyer School for the Arts, which hosts the New York State Summer School of the Arts during the months of July and August.
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The mission of the NMD is to cultivate, promote, foster and develop amongst its members and the community at large, the appreciation, understanding, taste and love of dance and its history, and to provide the means for popular instruction and enjoyment thereof; to collect, classify, preserve and protect records, articles and subjects of historic interest; to select, annually, one or more individuals, corporations, dance companies, associations or other institutions as honorees to be named in the National Museum of Dance Hall of Fame.
The Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame collection was provided to the Museum in 1987. The Hall of Fame annually inducts one individual from the dance world.
Below is the list of the inductees into the Hall of Fame of the National Museum of Dance (United States).
Fred Astaire (1899–1987) | inducted 1987
George Balanchine (1904–1983) | inducted 1987
Agnes deMille (1905–1993) | inducted 1987
Isadora Duncan (1887–1927) | inducted 1987
Katherine Dunham (1909–2006) | inducted 1987
Martha Graham (1894–1991) | inducted 1987
Doris Humphrey (1895–1958) | inducted 1987
Lincoln Kirstein (1907–1996) | inducted 1987
Catherine Littlefield (1905–1951) | inducted 1987
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (1878–1949) | inducted 1987
Ruth St. Denis (1877–1968) | inducted 1987
Ted Shawn (1891–1972) | inducted 1987
Charles Weidman (1901–1975) | inducted 1987
Busby Berkeley (1895–1976) | inducted 1988
Lucia Chase (1897–1986) | inducted 1988
Hanya Holm (1898–1992) | inducted 1988
John Martin (1893–1992) | inducted 1988
Antony Tudor (1908–1987) | inducted 1988
Jerome Robbins (1918–1998) | inducted 1989
Alvin Ailey (1931–1989) | inducted 1992
Merce Cunningham (1919–2009) | inducted 1993
Bronislava Nijinska (1891–1972) | inducted 1994
Paul Taylor (1930-) | inducted 1995
José Limón (1908–1972) | inducted 1997
Anna Sokolow (1910–2000) | inducted 1998
Barbara Karinska (1886–1983) | inducted 1999
Arthur Mitchell (1934-) | inducted 1999
Robert Joffrey (1930–1988) | inducted 2000
Trisha Brown (1936-) | inducted 2000
Alwin Nikolais (1910–1993) | inducted 2000
Nicholas Brothers (1914–2006 & 1921–2000) | inducted 2001
Leonide Massine (1896–1979) | inducted 2002
Edwin Denby (1903–1983) | inducted 2002
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) | inducted 2004
Arthur and Kathryn Murray | inducted 2006
The New Dance Group 1932 | inducted 2006
Bob Fosse (1927–1987) | inducted 2007
Bill T. Jones (1952-) | inducted 2007
Peter Martins (1946-) | inducted 2008
Tommy Tune (1939-) | inducted 2009
Marge Champion (1919–) | inducted 2009
Suzanne Farrell (1945-) | inducted 2009
Edward Villella (1936-) | inducted 2009
Frankie Manning (1914–2009) | inducted 2009
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) | inducted 2010