Lucy Phelps Lampkin papers

1920-1967

Born October 6, 1903 in Athens, Georgia, Lucy Phelps Lampkin was educated there in a private elementary school, Lucy Cobb School (1909-1917) and in public high school (1917-1921). She attended Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia for two years (1923-1924) and then transferred to Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in order to study piano (1923-1924). She received her A.B. degree from the University of Georgia in 1928. From 1928-1930 she studied dance in New York. When she returned to Athens in 1928 she established her own teaching studio.

Lucy Phelps Lampkin made an intensive study of all the art systems of the Dance at their source, having studied with Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, Michel Fokine, Mary Wigman (Wigman Central Institute, Dresden) and with Elizabeth Duncan, sister of Isadora, in Europe. Further study included work at Columbia and New York University, as well as with Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Irma Duncan, Lucile and Agnes Marsh, Angel Cansino, and Ella Daganova. She also studied Dalcroze Eurhythmics, piano, dramatic art, poetry, costume design and history of art.

Ms. Lampkin also researched the health and physical aspects of dance by work in Corrective Gymnastics at Central School of Hygiene and Physical Education, New York City, and by case study and observation at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. She did extensive research in sculpture and painting in relation to dance at a number of museums in America and in Europe.

Lucy Lampkin has appeared as soloist with Lucile Marsh, who she assisted for three summer sessions at the University of Georgia, Denishawn House, NYC, and as a guest-artist of the Physical Therapy Department, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.

After closing her studio in 1968, she retired from active teaching.

Source:

• The Dance in Art pamphlet found in scrapbook (Box 3, Folder 1)