Ruth St. Denis

Wainwright's celebrated 2009 live album, Milwaukee at Last!!!, was recorded at the Pabst Theater in Wisconsin -- the same stage where the teenage Brooks danced alongside Martha Graham, Ruth St. Denis and members of the famed Denishawn Dance Company.

Thomas Gladysz: "I Am the Victim of Such a Lascivious Beauty": Rufus Wainwright on Louise Brooks 2010

The flashback is dramatically irrelevant, but it gives DeMille a chance to get away from shipwreck wardrobes and into some costumes representing ancient Babylon, where they are entertained by a troupe that includes the young Martha Graham, and a group of Ruth St. Denis dancers.

Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010

Wainwright's celebrated 2009 live album, Milwaukee at Last!!!, was recorded at the Pabst Theater in Wisconsin -- the same stage where the teenage Brooks danced alongside Martha Graham, Ruth St. Denis and members of the famed Denishawn Dance Company.

Thomas Gladysz: "I Am the Victim of Such a Lascivious Beauty": Rufus Wainwright on Louise Brooks 2010

Spira Epstein began dance studies in New York City under the renowned pioneer of modern dance, Ruth St. Denis, and under Jack Cole, famous dancer of early Hollywood cinema, both of whom had been attracted to the dance of India.

Hadassah (Spira Epstein). 2009

And Ruth St. Denis had more charm although she had poor luck;

Collected Poems William Butler 2002

And really, Ruth St. Denis and Agnes de Mille were doing what I would have been doing.

Fiddler Fair Lackey, Mercedes 1998

And Ruth St. Denis had more charm although she had poor luck; 10

His Phoenix William Butler 1919

They were taller than any other women I saw in Malaysia, lithe and supple as Ruth St. Denis, and bearing themselves with a quiet dignity and lissome grace.

Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China 1918

As a result of constant drilling since babyhood, the Balinese dancers attain a perfection of technique unknown on the western stage, but the visitor who expects to see the verve and abandon of the Indian dances as portrayed by Ruth St. Denis is certain to be disappointed.

Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China 1918

But she was best known as a former member of, and an authority on, Denishawn, the eclectic company founded by Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn in 1915.

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