Name/Title
Rocky Mountain Dancing CampEntry/Object ID
2024.10.14Description
Seven photos of the Rocky Mountain Dancing Camp. These photos were on six loose scrapbook pages, and the entire collection of scrapbook pages can be found at 2024.10.13.
Photo 1: Woman with horn. Bridge of Sighs and other dancers in the background.
Photo 2: One of the dancers.
Photo 3: Another dancer
Photo 4: The whole crew
Photo 5: Women dancing on log bridge
Photo 6: Two dancers
Photo 7: Dancer identified as "Anitra" with lake and one of the Annie Brown lodge buildings in the backgroundContext
Portia Mansfield and Charlotte Perry graduated from Smith College in 1910, and in 1915 they rented the Dixie Lodge from Annie Brown to start their Perry Mansfield Performing Arts School and Camp that today is recognized as the oldest continuously operating performing arts school and camp in the nation.
After the first year at Lake Eldora the camp was moved to Steamboat Springs where it still exists today. Stories abound on why the camp only lasted one year at Lake Eldora and include peeping Tom’s and the high altitude.
In 2004 Charlotte Perry and Portia Mansfield were inducted into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame.Collection
Donald C. Kemp CollectionAcquisition
Accession
2024.10Source or Donor
Donald C. Kemp
