St. Denis, Ruth

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Ruth St. Denis
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Ruth St. Denis

Name	St. Denis, Ruth Gender: F
Birthname	Dennis, Ruth
born on	20 January 1878 at 00:05 (= 12:05 AM )
Place	Newark NJ, USA, 40n44, 74w10
Timezone	LMT m74w10 (is local mean time)
Data source	From memory Rodden Rating A
Astrology data	00°04' 16°42 Asc. 24°17'

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Biography

American dancer and choreographer, strongly influenced by Indian, Oriental and Greek dance. Her choreography of "Rhada" became famous and "The Veil of Isis" has played worldwide. She and her husband, Ted Shawn, founded a school of dance, the Denishawn School and Dance Troupe in 1915. They were students of the occult together.

St. Denis died of a heart attack 7/21/1968, Hollywood, CA.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

• spouse relationship with Shawn, Ted (born 21 October 1891)

Events

• Death, Cause unspecified 21 July 1968 (Age 90)

Source Notes

Jim Eshelman quotes Rudhyar in an astrology magazine 9/1950, "a few minutes past midnight, from her."

Categories

• Vocation : Entertain/Music : Dancer/ Teacher (Modern dance, choreography)

• Vocation : Entertainment : Child performer (Dance)

• Vocation : Writers : Autobiographer

• Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 90)

• Notable : Book Collection : Profiles Of Women

• Notable : Famous : Top 5% of Profession

• Vocation : Business : Business owner (Denishawn School of Dance)