 After Shawn and St. Denis split, Shawn retired to his farm in the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts and began to teach dance as physical education at a nearby college.The farm, called Jacob's Pillow after a large boulder in the woods, soon became the home of Shawn's all-male dance troupe,known as Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers, and later home of the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, which continues to flourish there today.Mumaw joined Shawn's troupe at its inception in 1933 and remained with it until it disbanded in 1940, having toured extensively throughout the United States.