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	Doris Humphrey -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In Chicago, she both studied and taught (A party for social dancing) dance, opening her own dance school in 1913 at the age of eighteen.
		In 1917 moved to (A state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes) California and entered the (additional info and facts about Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts) Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts, where she studied, performed, taught classes, and learned choreography.
		Her choreography explored the nuances of the human body's responses to gravity, and many dance critics discuss the importance of "the fall and the recovery" in her work.
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	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.
		The original University Elementary School was founded in Chicago in 1896 by American educator John Dewey as a research and demonstration centre for the Department of Pedagogy at the University of Chicago.
		As an innovator in dance theory and technique, Humphrey explored the conflicting tendencies toward balance and imbalance, and choreographed dances based on her belief that movement creates its own...
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9310984 (814 words)

	ARTSEDGE: Landscapes of the Mind
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		Dance movements reflect Emily's mental images of dreams and past experiences—including childhood memories of her sisters, her loves and hates.
		The rhythm and dance landscape of the mind are developed through the snatches of interruptions—sometimes fragmented, sometimes sustained, and often elaborated, hyperbolic images surrounded by peripheral figures that are characteristic of memory.
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	St. Denis, Ruth on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In 1906 she began her recitals of highly imaginative and spectacular dances inspired by the arts and religions of Egypt, India, and East Asia.
		With Ted Shawn, whom she married in 1914, she founded the Denishawn Schools in Los Angeles and in New York City (1920).
		Dancing the past into the present: Ruth St. Denis and Bharatanatyam.
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		Her gentle art, performed to the music of Chopin, Mendelssohn and Rubinstein, and described in 1903 in the Illustriertes Wiener Extrablatt of Vienna as "musically impressionistic mood settings", was overshadowed by the public clamour for the "naked" Salome Dancer.
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	FSU Dance - Faculty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Lynda Davis, Artistic Director of Dance Repertory Theatre, is a Professor of Contemporary Dance in the FSU Department of Dance.
		She was the driving force in the established of the South Carolina Center for Dance Education in 1993 and its expansion to the Southeast Center for Dance Education in 1996.
		Tom Welsh holds an M.A. in Dance Kinesiology from the University of Utah and a Ph.D. in Behavioral Psychology from the University of Kansas.
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	Performing Arts Timeline
		Ruth St. Denis and her husband, Ted Shawn, establish the Denishawn dance school in Los Angeles, where Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey study.
		The first dance concert is held at New York's Judson Memorial Church, marking the beginning of the Judson Movement and postmodern dance.
		Mark Morris establishes the Mark Morris Dance Group in New York and is widely received as the most promising modern-dance choreographer of his generation.
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	ipedia.com: Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		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.
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		Some of the school's more notable pupils include Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman.
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	The Classical Free-Reed, Inc.: Readers' Letters: 1997 & 1998
		She got her dance training from the Denishawn school which was operated by Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn in the early part of the century.
		She suggested checking in the Dance Encyclopedia however she cautioned me that "musical information is often lost in dance history and what information survives is often contradictory, depending on your source".
		In any event, it was an important event for the dance world because Doris Humphrey was one of the first modern dancer/choreographers to commission new scores for dances and The Shakers was one of the earliest of those commissions.
	www.ksanti.net /free-reed/letters/letters98.html (12076 words)

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