Dancers

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Members of the Denishawn Company poses for a picture before sailing to Japan in 1925.

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Members of the Denishawn Company poses for a photograph on the 1923 tour.

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Ruth St. Denis, center, Doris Humphrey, left, and Ted Shawn, right, on bier perform with members of the company in ''Ishtar of the Seven Gates'' during the 1923-1924 dance season, the second Mayer tour.

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Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn perform in ''Josephine and Hippolyte'' in 1929.

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Denishawn Dancers perform in ''Julnar of the Sea'' on a promotional poster for the show.

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Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn perform in North Africa.

Abstract Suzanne Shelton Buckley (1946- ) received her doctorate in American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin in 1980. She wrote her dissertation about dancer and choreographer, Ruth St. Denis (1878-1968). Her dissertation was published by Doubleday in 1981 as Divine Dancer: A Biography of Ruth St. Denis. Upon completion of her doctorate, she taught in the American Studies Department at the University of Texas at Austin. Suzanne Shelton Buckley's papers include materials from her...

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Drawing of Ted Shawn that appeared in ''The Dance Magazine.''

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Ted Shawn (1891-1972) Pioneer of modern dance; purchased "Jacob's Pillow" as a modern dance facility in Becket Massachusetts to establish a dance facility for American men.

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Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis perform in ''Tillers of the Soil.''