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Divine Dancer: A Biography of Ruth St. Denis Book
The turbulent career of Ruth St. Denis - performer, mystic, and seminal figure in modern dance-embraced the whole creative flux of artistic and spiritual movements in the early years of this century. Herself a fascinating mixture of earthiness and spirituality, chasteness and eroticism, St. Denis embodied the contradictory impulses of her time and gave form to them in dances that electrified her audiences. From the outset, she was endowed with an elusive star quality, a spellbinding stage presence that imbued her sinuous gestures with a kind of mythic grace. A variety dancer at fifteen, Ruthie Dennis (her real name) served her apprenticeship with David Belasco's stage company. At 27, her hair already completely gray, she made her solo debut with Radha, a landmark oriental dance that … read more...
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