Sold by Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
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Original boudoir card (4 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches). On photographer's printed mount. Very small piece of upper left corner chipped else and excellent image.Ruth St. Denis holds a hallowed placed in the history of modern American dance. Such was her gift that she influenced almost every phase of American dance."From an early age Ruth Dennis displayed a marked interest in the theatre and especially in dance. She began dancing and acting in vaudeville and musical comedy shows when she was a teenager, and she appeared in David Belasco?s productions of Zaza, The Auctioneer, and Du Barry. While touring in the last play she was reputedly inspired by a cigarette poster featuring an Egyptian scene of the goddess Isis to begin investigating Asian art and dance.Dennis took the stage name Ruth St. Denis, and in 1906, after studying Hindu art and philosophy, she offered a public performance in New York City of her first dance work, Radha (based on the milkmaid Radha who was an early consort of the Hindu god Krishna), together with such shorter pieces as The Cobra and The Incense. A three-year European tour followed. She was particularly successful in Vienna, where she added The Nautch and The Yogi to her program, and in Germany. Her later productions, many of which had religious themes, included the long-planned Egypta (1910) and O-mika (1913), a dance drama in a Japanese style (EB). It is quite likely that she is dressed her in her groundreaking role as Radha,
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