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===Jacob's Pillow=== [[File:Shawn on Pillow Rock.jpg|thumb|250px|Ted Shawn resting on the Jacob's Pillow Rock]]With this new company came the creation of [[Jacob's Pillow]]: a dance school, retreat, and theater. The facilities also hosted teas, which, over time, became the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.<ref>{{harvnb|Foulkes|2002|pages=84β85}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Barbara N.|last=Cohen-Stratyner|title=Biographical Dictionary of Dance|location=New York|publisher=Schirmer Books|date=1982|page=811}}</ref> Shawn also created The School of Dance for Men around this time, which helped promote male dance in colleges nationwide. Shawn taught classes at Jacob's Pillow just months before his death at the age of 80.<ref>{{harvnb|Benbow-Niemer|1998|page=716}}</ref> In 1965, Shawn was a Heritage Award recipient of the [[national dance association|National Dance Association]]. Shawn's final appearance on stage in the Ted Shawn Theater at Jacob's Pillow was in ''Siddhas of the Upper Air'', where he reunited with St. Denis for their fiftieth anniversary. Saratoga Springs is now the home of the [[National Museum of Dance]], the United States' only museum dedicated to professional dance. Shawn was inducted into the museum's [[National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame|Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame]] in 1987.
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