| Code | DS/UK/P363 |
| Dates | 1880-1968 |
| Person Name | Denis; Ruth St (1880-1968) |
| Surname | Denis |
| Forenames | Ruth St |
| Activity | US dancer, teacher, and choreographer. Began her dance career in the music hall having studied mime, social dance and recitation with her mother, but was inspired to create her own oriental-style dance productions in 1904 and toured the US and Europe for 3 years; in 1914 Ted Shawn became her partner and in 1915 they set up Denishawn Dance School in Los Angeles; the company was disbanded in 1931 after her separation from Shawn; she founded the Society of Spiritual Arts and the New York School of natya with La Meri in 1938. |
| Relationships | Husband Ted Shawn |
| Gender | Female |
| Other Forms Of Name | Ruth Dennis |
| Dates and Places | b. Somerville, NJ. 20 Jan. 1879, d. Hollywood, California, 21 July 1968 |
| Address | tagged-0205 taggedSDR |
| Published Works | Lotus Light (1932); An Unfinished Life (1939) |
| Source | Craine, D and Mackrell, J. Oxford Dictionary of Dance, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| XZB/2843 | Miss Ruth: The "More Living Life" of Ruth St Denis |
| DH/B/2162 | An Unfinished Life |
| L/F/6/1 | Portraits \ Mary Wigman \ Ruth St Denis | n.d. |
| XZB/546 | Ruth St Denis \ Pioneer & prophet, being a history of her cycle of oriental dances by Ted Shawn \ Volume II \ the plates |
| XZB/2694 | Soaring; The Diary and Letters of a Denishawn Dancer in the Far East, 1925-1926 |
| XZB/2913 | Dancing and Dancers of Today: The Modern Revival of Dancing as an Art |
| XZG/731 | Dance on Film presented by the Society for Dance Research \ Bloomsbury Theatre, London \ 19 May 1984 | 19 May 1984 |
| XZG/732 | Dance on Film by the Society for Dance Research \ Bloomsbury Theatre, London \ 19 May 1984 | 19 May 1984 |