Dance We Must The Art And Costumes Of Ruth St. Denis And Ted Shawn 19061940

On America's first modern dance company and its many collaborators, with reproductions of costumes, sets, ephemera and moreRuth St Denis 1879-1968 and Ted Shawn 1891-1972 pioneered modern dance in the US with their company Denishawn, founded in 1914. Incorporating elements from ancient, non-Western and Native American sources, Denishawn became the first important American dance company.