Ruth St. Denis Poster
date: label: date made
content: ca 1915
name: label: depicted
content: St. Denis, Ruth
notes: label: Description
content: Poster advertising dancer Ruth St. Denis. A pioneer of modern choreography, Ruth St. Denis began her career on the vaudeville stage. Inspired by Eastern mythology, she used fluid movement, artful costuming and mystical themes to emphasize the spiritual nature of interpretive dance. An international sensation, St. Denis was also the cofounder of the Denishawn School of Dance.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Dance
label: Subject
content: Dancers
label: web subject
content: Entertainment
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ruth St. Denis Foundation Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0796.01
label: accession number
content: 1980.0796
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0796.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Poster
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 41 1/4 in x 28 1/8 in; 104.775 cm x 71.4375 cm