Pioneering Modern Dance in Somerville: Ruth St. Denis. Where: Grounds for Sculpture, 18 Fairgrounds Road, Hamilton. When: 2 p.m. Saturday. How much: Grounds admission is $10 for adults, $8 for ...

But Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn attracted a crowd. The editor of Allentown’s Chronicle and News thought it was different enough to include it in the regular end-of-the-year events column that the ...

Ted Shawn and his wife, Ruth St. Denis, are often considered a mother and a father of modern dance in America, "as though they were progenitors but not participants," says Kevin M. Murphy, Eugenie ...

It was a curiously mixed crowd—aging ladies in purple velvet and flowered hats come to recall a bygone day, brash youths come to scoff at a legend. Silver-haired Ruth St. Denis, 67, high priestess of ...

COURTESY SOMERSET COUNTY A plaque commemorating the first public performance of modern-dance pioneer Ruth St. Denis was unveiled outside Alfonso's Family Trattoria on West Main Street in Somerville on ...

"The ant of the dance is the most fundamental of all the arts," Ruth St. Denis one of America's premier interpretive dancers, stated in an interview with a Crimson reporter. "Interpretive dancing has ...

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When Dancer Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis chose separate ways three years ago, there ended a record partnership which even the fluttering world of the dance thought never to see dissolved. They had ...

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-2005: 200 Years of Excellence," Philadelphia, PA: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2005, pg. 214. Summary Portrait of Ruth St. Denis in costume and ...