Ruth st denis

Ballerina. A pioneer of modern dance, she is remembered for joining with her husband Ted Shawn to create numerous ground-breaking productions, many of them with Oriental themes. Born Ruth Denis, she was raised on a New Jersey farm and took to dance, specifically routines developed by Francois Delsarte, at an early age...

Digital ID: DEN_0087V. Sarony, Otto -- Photographer. 1908-09. Notes: National Endowment for the Arts Millennium Project. Source: Denishawn Collection (more info) Repository: The New York Public Library. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Jerome Robbins Dance Division. See more information about this image and others at NYPL Digital Gallery. Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?DEN_0087V Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions; may be subject to third…

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Ruth St. Denis was one of the pioneering dancers of the early 20th Century who brought exotic Eastern dance to the West in the 1910s and 1920s. Born on a farm in New Jersey, she was a vaudeville dancer when her fascination with Egypt began in 1904 after she saw an advert for Egyptian Deities(...)

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Ruth St. Denis, a pioneer in American modern dance, voyaged on a steamship to tour Asia in 1925. She took a side trip to Cambodia & arrived on the evening of a celebration in honor of King Sisowath’s birthday. “Cambodian dancers performed a mesmeric dance..their knees bent in deep plié, their hands dancing a lively story, heads immobile under the heavy crowns.” Fascinated and elated, “as they always were when they saw fine dancing.” [p 205, 'Ruth St. Denis: A Biography of the Divine Dancer']