Dance We Must: The Art and Costumes of Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, 1906-1940
Title | Dance We Must: The Art and Costumes of Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, 1906-1940 PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth St Denis |
Publisher | Williams College Museum of Art |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2023-01-10 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 9781646570270 |
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 company, and many artists, including Auguste Rodin, John Singer Sargent, Katherine Dreier, Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell, collaborated with them. This catalog reproduces artwork, sets, ephemera and especially costumes, many of which have not been seen since the 1930s. Some of the materials and costumes, as well as the choreography, borrow from East and South Asian and Native American cultures, and the publication interrogates the legacy of cultural appropriation in dance. The materials also demonstrate St. Denis and Shawn's stylistic and personal connections to American and European modernists, broadening an understanding of American dance in early modernism.
Dance We Must
Title | Dance We Must PDF eBook |
Author | Ted Shawn |
Publisher | Haskell House Pub Limited |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 1940 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780838320327 |
The Peabody lectures of 1938 delivered at the George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville. Reprint of the original edition without illustrations. First published in Great Britain by Dennis Dobson in 1946.
PROFESSIONAL APPEARANCES OF RUTH ST. DENIS AND TED SHAWN
Title | PROFESSIONAL APPEARANCES OF RUTH ST. DENIS AND TED SHAWN PDF eBook |
Author | C. L. Schlundt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1962 |
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The Professional Appearances of Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn
Title | The Professional Appearances of Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn PDF eBook |
Author | Christena L. Schlundt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 102 |
Release | 2013-03 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781258635190 |
Bulletin Of The New York Public Library, January To April 1962.
The Professional Appearances of Ruth St. Denis & Ted Shawn
Title | The Professional Appearances of Ruth St. Denis & Ted Shawn PDF eBook |
Author | Christena L. Schlundt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 85 |
Release | 1962 |
Genre | |
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After the Dance
Title | After the Dance PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Brady |
Publisher | |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Dancers |
ISBN |
The Professional Appearances of Ruth St Denis and Ted Shawn
Title | The Professional Appearances of Ruth St Denis and Ted Shawn PDF eBook |
Author | Christena L. Schlundt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 85 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780758177582 |