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Dance We Must: The Art and Costumes of Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, 1906-1940
Hardcover
$45.00
By Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, Kevin M. Murphy (Editor), Caroline Hamilton (Editor), Erica Dankmeyer (Text by), Panalee Maskati (Text by), Norton Owen (Text by), Thandi Steele (Text by), Munjulika R. Tarah (Text by)
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On America's first modern dance company and its many collaborators, with reproductions of costumes, sets, ephemera and more
Ruth St Denis (1879-1968) and Ted Shawn (1891-1972) pioneered modern dance in the US with their company Denishawn, founded in 1914. Incorporating elements from ancient, non-Western and Native American sources, Denishawn became the first important American dance company. A generation of dancers and choreographers, including Martha Graham, trained and performed with the c...