Legacy
He forever changed the way dance was danced by working in different parameters. He has heavily influenced all modern dance that came after him, and his actions were recognized when he received the Heritage Award in 1970. One of his former dancers said "all male dancers took concepts from Charles." In his company he trained famous choreographers such as José Limón, Bob Fosse and Louis Falco. Charles Weidman created a completely new style of dance by rejecting ballet and embracing gravity. He laid the foundation for modern dance and many of his ideas are still the basis for modern dance today. Unfortunately his work is not well known and has been hard to reconstruct because very little of it is on tape and only some of it is in Labanotation. Therefore, it has been up to his former dancers to reconstruct most of his works from memory. However, his passion, influence and ideas have had an incredible influence on the way movement is studied and created today.
Weidman was inducted into the National Museum of Dance's Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame in 1987.
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