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"Miss Ruth – Poems" (1953, Aug. 24)

Description
Subjects of the entire collection include: Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, American dance and dancers, dance instruction and notes, exercises and warm-up routines, various dance types (international as well as American), famous dancers from around the globe, Denishawn dancers, the Ruth St. Denis Center, the Ruth St. Denis Foundation, the Ruth St. Denis Theatre Intime, Jacob's Pillow dance festival, American Dance Film Association, Society of Spiritual Arts Church, the various teachers and pupils at St. Denis' dance studio and school, the Orient trip the Denishawn dancers took in 1926, as well as dance productions and events St. Denis put on throughout her career. There is also much material about St. Denis' effort to have her studio and school become a non-profit entity and her desire to create an artist colony in Hemet, California. More specifically, several dancers show up in the notebooks and photographs, including: Harold Kreutzberg, Peter di Falco, La Meri, Karoun Tootikian, Miriam Schiller, Jean Léon, Gladys Bowen, Antonio Gades, Devi Dja, Doris Humphrey, Mary Wigman, and Martha Graham.
Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date
1904-2007.
Call number
mssStDenis
Creator
St. Denis, Ruth (1880-1968)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Gift of Janice Seaman, August, October and December 1993.
Gift of Robert Lovelace, November 2003.
One volume a gift of Jane Lehac, November 2003.
Purchased from Elliott Mittler, 2010, and April 2013.
Restrictions
Some audiovisual material not available for paging until reformatted. Please contact Reader Services for more information.
Associated people
Albery, Marie. (1914-2011,)
Coggan, Forrest W. (1891-1972.)
Lefler, Dale, (1908-2010.)
Shawn, Ted, (1893-1987.)
Sherman, Jane,
Thornburg, Forrest.
Vaughan, Clifford,
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