Denishawn School of Dancing

Ted Shawn and Bobey recline and watch as Ruth St. Denis and other dancers perform.

Subject file relating either a dance topic, individual, or company. Folder contains articles, correspondence, documents, notes, and ephemera.

Ruth St. Denis and company at a train on their way to the boat that will take them to the Orient, 1925.

Ruth St. Denis and company at a train on their way to the boat that will take them to the Orient in 1925.

This collection contains 2 scrapbooks containing photographs, postcards, and notes from Denishawn's tour of Asia from 1925 to 1926.

Subject file relating either a dance topic, individual, or company. Folder contains articles, correspondence, documents, notes, and ephemera.

Portrait of Ruth Dennis with her family as a child. Pictured from left to right: Ruth, her father, her brother (Buzz), and mother.

Materials generated by Suzanne Shelton Buckley during her research for her dissertation and manuscript on Ruth St. Denis (1879-1968), a dancer and choreographer who was a seminal figure in modern dance. The dissertation was published by Doubleday in 1981 as Divine Dancer: A Biography of Ruth St. Denis.

Materials generated by Suzanne Shelton Buckley during her research for her dissertation and manuscript on Ruth St. Denis (1879-1968), a dancer and choreographer who was a seminal figure in modern dance. The dissertation was published by Doubleday in 1981 as Divine Dancer: A Biography of Ruth St. Denis.

Ruth St. Denis performs topless in ''Egypta.''