Denishaw And The Later Years

After 1911, the vogue for solo dancers on the professional stage died down

, and Ruth St. Denis began to accept students to increase her income. Also, she began adding other performers to her touring productions. In 1914 she hired- and later married- Ted Shawn, a stage dancer with strong Delsartean leanings who was 13 years her junior.

This new chapter in her life would have a lasting impact. The company Ruth St. Denis and the energetic Ted Shawn formed, called Denishawn, became the most influential school of modern dance in America in the first half of the 20th www.linkslondonhut.com century.

In 1926, Ruth, now age 47, and the Denishaw company traveled to India. She was not shy about her "Indian" dance inventions. Boldly, she led performances not only in the metropolitan cities of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras but also in smaller cities and towns, including Karachi, Ouetta, Lahore, Kanpur, Lucknow and Allahabad.

Presenting a wide array of Indian dances to Indians- Ted Shawn had created a performance called "The Cosmic Dance of Shiva"could have resulted in rejection. Not being strictly based on any specific Indian style or school of dancing, they were inauthentic, despite the Indian inspiration. The music of these dances was even less Indian. But, as Uttara Corlawala reported, "There is no question that the Denishawn tour of India was successful and popular. It was extended considerably beyond their expectations, and they returned to cities they had already visited. [Ruth's] Dance of the Black and Gold Sari provoked virtual riots." Even Rabindranath Tagore was sufficiently impressed to request St. Denis to stay on and teach dance at Viswa-Bharati University in Shantiniketan.

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