St. Denis, Ruth, 1880-1968

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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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Sonata Pathetique, 1925

Item

Identifier: D018.01.0005.00012

Abstract

Denishawn dancers in final pose from Sonata Pathetique, photographed in Tokyo. Dancers from left to right: Jane Sherman, Ernestine Day, Grace Burroughs, Doris Humphrey, Edith James, Geordie Graham, and Anne Douglas.

Dates: 1925

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / D018, Suzanne Shelton Buckley Papers on Ruth St. Denis and Other Dance Subjects / Research on Ruth St. Denis / Box 5: Photographs

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Subject: Ballet X