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	Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts Summary
		Denishawn toured worldwide and was the first dance company to tour extensively in America, bringing the concept of serious dance and an appreciation of unknown cultures to American audiences.
		Denishawn students Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, and Charles Weidman went on to become legendary dancer-choreographers.
		The Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts, founded in 1915 by Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn in Los Angeles, California, helped many perfect their dancing talents.
	www.bookrags.com /Denishawn_School_of_Dancing_and_Related_Arts (393 words)

	Denishawn - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Denishawn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His efforts to raise the masculine role in dance from its secondary status paved the way for subsequent male stars, such as Nureyev, to emerge.
		Denis (together they had formed the legendary Denishawn Dance Company), decided to go his own way in 1932 to show America that men could choose modern dance as a legitimate, masculine profession.
		HISTORY Born in 1906 in Indiana, Lester Horton studied Native American dance, researched world dance styles, was inspired by occasional Denishawn concerts, and was a keen observer of the natural world.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Denishawn (331 words)

	Overview Article
		Denishawn House at 67 Stevenson Place, Manhattan- a spacious Moorish structure dominated by a forty- by- sixty- foot dance studio- had been the home of the Denishawn school and concert company since 1924 when Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis transferred their base of operations from Los Angeles to New York.
		It was in Los Angeles that the Denishawn School first established its reputation as a haven for dancers and other performing artists who wanted to be associated with the vanguard of modern American dance.
		She toured with Denishawn up and down the East Coast, bringing modern dance to thousands of Americans who-like herself only a few years earlier-had never had the privilege of seeing it.
	bama.ua.edu /~dhughes/flamessite/history/overview.html (1863 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Print Preview - Modern Dance
		The Denishawn Company performed works loosely based on the dances of Egypt, India, and Asia and presented these largely on the vaudeville circuit.
		Pupils of the school, such as Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey, rebelled against the pantomime and spectacular effects of the Denishawn style as well as against the prevailing orthodoxy of ballet.
		She wished to disentangle the art form of dance from the vaudeville trappings of Denishawn and the aristocratic baggage of ballet.
	au.encarta.msn.com /text_761575355___5/Modern_Dance.html (927 words)

	Martha Graham and Modern American Dance
		The Denishawn company was developed by Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, and during the 1920's it was the chief dance force in the United States.
		Denishawn schools were established across the country and the company toured in the United States and abroad.
		Rebellion against the exotic romanticism of the Denishawn company was to be a major thrust of the modern dance movement, and Denishawn was formally disbanded by the end of 1931.
	www.let.uu.nl /ams/xroads/dance.htm (1763 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Denishawn
		After 1916, Graham attended the Denishawn School, Los Angeles; in 1920 she made her debut in Ted Shawn's Xochitl, which was created for her.
		She was a member of the Denishawn troupe from 1917 to 1928, when she left to cofound, with Charles Weidman, a school and performing dance group, which was active until 1944.
		He studied at the Denishawn school and was a member of its company in the 1920s.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Denishawn (687 words)

	ART TIMES: Literary Journal and Resource for the Fine & Performing Arts
		Three generations later, you may ask "Why was Denishawn significant?" With their vision sustained by good sense, St. Denis and Shawn first started a school to teach the technique that could express their radical ideas, then founded their professional company to present their creations to new dance audiences.
		Drowning in the very dance turbulence it had created, Denishawn was not resuscitated until the '70s, by a few old loyalists and some curious young researchers.
		I had by then published two books of Denishawn lore and repertoire, and was tempted by purest serendipity to enter the arena of visual preservation: in 1979 I saw a Vanaver Caravan ensemble that propelled me impulsively to ask Livia and Bill if they would join me in reviving Shawn's 1924 Boston Fancy.
	www.arttimesjournal.com /dance/bostonfancy.htm (684 words)

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		Charles Weidman was Humphrey's choreographic and dance partner in the 1920s and 1930s, and was himself a key figure in the development of the American modern dance.
		Humphrey began her choreographic career while at Denishawn, where she created, with St. Denis, famous pieces like "Soaring," set to the Schumman score of the same title, and "Sonata Pathetique," to the Beethoven score.
		Like Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey was interest ed in the fundamental importance of tension and relaxation in the body, and used it as the foundation of her own system of movement principles.
	www.pitt.edu /~gillis/dance/doris.html (828 words)

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		Graham left Denishawn in 1923 to take a job with the Greenwich Village Follies, where she gained a reputation for her ballet balleds.
		Though the dances Graham created in the late 1920s were derivative of Denishawn pieces, by 1930 she was beginning to identify a new system of movement and new principles of choreography.
		Based on her own interpretation of the Delsartean principle of tension and relaxation, Graham identified a method of breathing and impulse control she called "contraction and release." For her, movement originated in the tension of a contracted muscle, and continued in the flow of energy released from the body as the muscle relaxed.
	www.pitt.edu /~gillis/dance/martha.html (1089 words)

	Untitled Document
		Summary The story of the Denishawn phenomena as the cradle of American modern dance and its enduring influence is a fascinating one that deserves retelling and renewed illumination.
		Phoebe Barr was a Denishawn student and dancer from 1928-1932 who carried it's flame of inspiration throughout a lifetime of dance and teaching.
		Phoebe chose Denishawn and her loyalty to Shawn kept her with his 1932 East Coast tour with its grueling schedule in the face of the depression.
	bama.ua.edu /~dhughes/flamessite/neh.html (1910 words)

	Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Considered a fountainhead of American modern dance, the Denishawn organization systematically promoted nonballetic dance movement and fostered such leading modern dancers as Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, and Charles Weidman.
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		Considered a wellspring of American modern dance, the Denishawn organization systematically promoted nonballetic dance movement, and fostered such leading modern dancers as Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, and...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9029936?tocId=9029936 (803 words)

	AXE - Special Collections - Louise Brooks - Louise Brooks and the Denishawn Dancers
		Louise Brooks performed in Pittsburg as a member of the Denishawn Dancers, a troupe originated by Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn.
		"In the case of the Denishawn Dancers, together with Miss St. Denis and her husband, Ted Shawn, it would seem that dancing does bring all hearts into tune, for a happier aggregation of in- dividuals it would be hard to find.
		Denis has originated, is the use of draperies in such a way that the flowing and billowing chiffons and silk are just as ex- pressive of the mood and meaning of the dance as the steps and bodily movements employed.
	library.pittstate.edu /spcoll/dance.html (3611 words)

	American Masters . Martha Graham \| PBS
		Denishawn was founded by Ruth St. Denis and her husband Ted Shawn to teach techniques of American and world dance.
		Over eight years, as both a student and an instructor, Graham made Denishawn her home.
		By 1923, eight years after entering Denishawn, she was ready to branch out.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/graham_m.html (958 words)

	Florida State University's Research in Review
		Purple chiffon tunics, and a deep-blue man’s leotard are part of the collection that belonged to the famous Denishawn Dance Company and Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers.
		The dance world was astounded when Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn’s wife (hence the name Denishawn), appeared in 1910 as Isis on a throne in her Egyptian Ballet, wearing an orange, accordion-pleated silk gown.
		Recognizing the articles as part of the Denishawn Dance Company, and aware of the Denishawn school’s significance to the dance world, she outbid the only other bidder--the auctioneer.
	www.research.fsu.edu /researchr/fallwinter97/features/dance.html (622 words)

	Contemporary Dance Ensemble - Modern Dance History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In her biography An Unfinished Life, she states, "What I gave Denishawn and what I shall give to pupils as long as I am able, is an artistic stimulus and an incentive to go and do someting -- anything -- that is a release and a joy to the young artist."
		The creation of the Denishawn school was a springboard for aspiring young dancers.
		Martha Graham studied at Denishawn in 1916 and then toured with them in England in 1922.
	www.cde.org.vt.edu /mdrnhist.htm (826 words)

	Martha Graham :: The Encyclopedia of New York State :: Syracuse University Press
		In 1908 the family, which included Graham's two younger sisters, moved to Santa Barbara, Calif. In 1911 Graham attended a Los Angeles concert of Ruth St. Denis, whose exotic dancing inspired Graham to imagine a future for herself as a dancer.
		After her father's death Graham enrolled at Denishawn, the California school founded by St. Denis and her husband Ted Shawn, and in 1921 joined a New York City tour organized by Shawn.
		Graham spent several years with the Greenwich Village Follies before being hired in 1925 as co-director of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, where she began to develop a dance training mode based on a system of contractions and releases.
	syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu /encyclopedia/entries/martha-graham.html (570 words)

	Amazon.com: Denishawn: The Birth of Modern Dance: DVD: Ted Shawn,Ruth St. Denis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Founded by Ruth St. Denis and her husband Ted Shawn at the turn of the century, Denishawn has become legendary for its unique approach to contemporary dance.
		The current Denishawn company re-stages some of the founders’ original choreography, which remains as vital and modern today as it was then.
		The story of Denishawn is a huge, sprawling one that spans nine decades and several continents.
	www.amazon.com /Denishawn-Birth-Modern-Ted-Shawn/dp/B000E3LCSM (1006 words)

	UPNE \| Barton Mumaw, Dancer
		This exceptional memoir, first published in 1986, will engage the general reader and is bound to attract scholars who seek to conjoin the many current works in gay and lesbian studies with today's equally numerous critical works in dance.
		BARTON MUMAW was born in 1912, raised in Florida, and entered the Denishawn New York School of Dance in 1930, briefly finding himself a Denishawn Dancer before Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn broke up personally and professionally.
		She is author of Soaring: The Diary and Letters of a Denishawn Dancer in the Far East, 1925 - 1926 (Wesleyan, 1976), winner of the de la Torre Bueno Prize for Best Book in Dance History for that year; The Drama of Denishawn Dance (Wesleyan, 1979), and other works.
	www.upne.com /0-8195-6453-2.html (383 words)

	Modern dance -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fuller, Duncan and St. Denis all toured (The 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles) Europe seeking a wider and more accepting audience for their work.
		In 1915 Ruth St. Denis founded the (Click link for more info and facts about Denishawn) Denishawn school and dance company with her husband (United States dancer and choreographer who collaborated with Ruth Saint Denis (1891-1972)) Ted Shawn.
		1923 Graham leaves Denishawn to work as a solo artist in the (A mainly residential district of Manhattan; `the Village' became a home for many writers and artists in the 20th century) Greenwich Village Follies.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mo/modern_dance.htm (2638 words)

	ipedia.com: Louise Brooks Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		She began her entertainment career as a dancer, appearing with the Ziegfeld Follies as well as the Denishawn dance...
		She began her entertainment career as a dancer, appearing with the Ziegfeld Follies as well as the Denishawn dance company whose members included Martha Graham and Ted Shawn.
		Her film debut was in The Street of Forgotten Men in an uncredited role in 1925, but she became famous for the 1928 film Pandora's Box, in which her waiflike role as the doomed flapper Lulu made her an icon of the Jazz Age.
	www.ipedia.com /louise_brooks.html (351 words)

	Research - People - Louise Brooks - Kansas State Historical Society
		From the Horace Mann intermediate school, Miss Brooks went to New York where she studied dancing in the Denishawn school.
		She later went on a tour as the youngest girl in the Denishawn troupe.
		At the age of 15 in 1921, she left Wichita to launch a career as a Denishawn Dancer with Ruth St. Denis in New York.
	www.kshs.org /people/brooks_louise.htm (2550 words)

	Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts was a dance school and company founded in the United States in 1915 by Ruth St. Denis and her husband, Ted Shawn.
		Considered a wellspring of American modern dance, the Denishawn organization systematically promoted nonballetic dance movement, and fostered such leading modern dancers as Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, …;
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article?tocId=9310984&query=doris (814 words)

	Ballet Videos & DVDs Performances and Documentaries 2
		A company of international stature, it is recognized as one of the most unique and influential of all dance companies.
		Husband-and-wife actors Paul and June Reed portray the Shawns in “interview” segments, and rare film footage of the real St. Denis and Shawn show them at the peak of their creative talents.
		The current Denishawn Company re-stages some of the founders’ original choreography, which remains as vital and modern today as it was then.
	www.centralhome.com /ballroomcountry/ballet_performances_2.htm (2239 words)

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