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    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...
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    Genevieve Stebbins. St. Denis was the co-founder in 1915 of the American Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts. She taught notable performers including...
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    choreographer. Considered a pioneer of American modern dance, he created the Denishawn School together with his wife Ruth St. Denis. After their separation he created...
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    the Denishawn school and dance company with her husband Ted Shawn. Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, and Charles Weidman were pupils at the school and members...
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    age of 15, Brooks began her career as a dancer and toured with the Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts where she performed opposite Ted Shawn...
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  • left the Denishawn School and moved to New York City. Along with Humphrey and Weidman, Martha Graham also rebelled against the Denishawn establishment...
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  • with Ted Shawn at the Boston-Braggiotti Denishawn School in Boston. Brown was a product of the Denishawn School and graduated with honors in philosophy...
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  • modern dance and choreography with Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis at the Denishawn School of Dance and started work as a dance performer. She later moved to...
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    Shawn, founders of the Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts. Once Cole left Columbia he joined St. Denis' and Shawn's school and dance company. He...
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    training at the Denishawn school and focus more on the foundational aspects of movement. In 1925, Graham was employed at the Eastman School of Music where...
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    while Birgit Åkesson went her own way with her dance research. The Denishawn School in the United States was founded by Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, with...
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  • and Liebesträume", a solo that inspired her to study at the New York Denishawn School. From 1927 to 1928, she joined the Ziegfeld Follies and toured with...
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    Elizabeth McGovern (category Juilliard School alumni)
    chaperone the young Louise Brooks to New York City to study dance at the Denishawn School. The Chaperone is the first film that McGovern has also produced. Her...
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  • 2019, by PBS Distribution. In 1922, invited to study dance at the Denishawn school in NYC, teen Louise Brooks must find a chaperone to accompany her....
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  • and the Braggiotti sisters at the Braggiotti-Denishawn School of Dance in Boston, often performing Denishawn works in their concerts. She produced work...
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    first-generation rebels of modern dance, such as those who taught at the Denishawn school where Graham studied.: 47  The expressive force of Graham technique...
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    and model, and one of the first group of dancers associated with the Denishawn school. Florence Andrews was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, the daughter of...
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  • one of the poems she later wrote for her and yearned to dance at Denishawn, the school set up by St. Denis and her husband Ted Shawn but St. Denis deemed...
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    Minnesota. She graduated from the Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts, and was a member of the Denishawn Players which toured across the nation...
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    Angeles Symphony and became a stage manager and learned lighting at the Denishawn school. Kuster, with Perry Newberry, became involved with the Carmel Arts...
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    dance more generally through the influence of Isadora Duncan and the Denishawn school of Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn. While St. Denis claimed a performance...
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    lessons at the Denishawn School and acted with Neely Dickson's Hollywood Community Theatre for two years. She also attended the Hollywood School for Girls...
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  • January 9, 1972), pioneer of American modern dance. who created the Denishawn School together with his wife Ruth St. Denis. Jimmy Slyde (1927–2008), known...
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  • dancer who came from Leningrad to the United States to dance at the Denishawn school, but he had always been more attracted to music than dance. He was...
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    Art Students League of New York and the Denishawn School. Yerger taught dance classes at the Lausanne School in Tennessee and at Arlington Hall in Virginia...
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    (with Ted Shawn) of the Denishawn school The Mexican Student Movement of 1968 began after students from two rival high schools fought during a soccer game...
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    attended Virgil Junior High School and the Marlborough School for girls. She also studied dance at the Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts and...
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    High School in 1922. They studied drama with Little Theatre Movement founders Maurice Browne and Ellen Van Volkenburg, and dance in the Denishawn style...
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    Massachusetts dance studio. Together, St. Denis and Shawn had established the Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts in Los Angeles in 1915. Her sisters Francesca...
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  • become a dancer. She studied dance at the Denishawn School in the Bronx before attending Walton High School. After a short stint at the University of...
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