St. Denis, Ruth, 1880-1968
Biography
http://www.ruhaniat.org/lineage/RSDBio.php (b. Ruth Dennis in rural New Jersey, year given by various sources as 1877, 78, 79 or 80. The daughter of a strong-willed and highly educated woman (Ruth Emma Dennis was a physician by training), St. Denis was encouraged to study dance from an early age. Her early training included Delsarte technique, ballet lessons with the Italian ballerina Maria Bonfante, and popular social dance forms. Ruth began her professional career in New York City in 1892 ... career as a solo artist began in 1905 with Radha ... In 1914 St. Denis married Ted Shawn, one of her dance partners, and the next year they founded the Denishawn dance school and company in Los Angeles.
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Chronology - Ruth St. Denis, 1954-1968
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.
Contact Sheet of Denishawn Players, between 1879-1968
Photograph of a photo board with some of the pictures crossed out.
Contact Sheet of Unidentified Performance, between 1879-1968
Photograph of numbered negatives of Ruth St. Denis and others performing on stage.
Cuardo Flamenco, 1923
Ruth St. Denis performs 'Cuardo Flamenco' with other dancers in 1923. Left to right, Ted Shawn, Martha Hardy, Pauline Lawrence, George Steares, Louise Brooks, Ann Douglas, Charles Wiedman, Ruth St. Denis as La Gitana, Leanore Sheffer, Doris Humphrey, J. Roy Busclark, unidentified girl, Therea Sadowska and Robert Gorham.
'Current Biography' By Ruth St. Denis, Poems, 1963
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.
Dance Lesson Flyer, between 1879-1968
Drawing of Ruth St. Denis on front of promotional flyer for dance lessons St. Denis and Ted Shawn taught together.
Dance of the Royal Ballet of Siam, 1918
Ruth St. Denis performs in ''Dance of the Royal Ballet of Siam.''
Dance We Must, between 1879-1985
Photograph of Ruth St. Denis twirling in a full white skirt on the back of an announcement of a new Illustrated edition of Dance We Must.
Denishawn, between 1879-1968
Ruth St. Denis and Bobey recline and watch as other dancers perform.
Denishawn Company, 1925
Members of the Denishawn Company poses for a picture before sailing to Japan in 1925.
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