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#Dancer Ruth St. Denis Shares Thoughts on #Politics, #Feminism and New Work

..."1967 interview
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She is pushing the concept of Balanced Government, basically a dual presidency held by both a man and a woman. The woman, it is implied, will prevent future wars because "savagery is the male's temperament." In practical terms, this would entail setting up small schools attached to the larger women's colleges where one thousand young women could be instructed in governance.
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Ruth St. Denis was born in 1879. She debuted as a "skirt dancer," what was then a rather risqué form of dancing because of the woman's legs being briefly visible.
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While doing research on the culture and dance of Egypt, she discovered the dances of India. With the help of some Indian friends, Miss St. Denis danced the radha, a freestyle Indian dance. She was the first in the Western world to introduce to a legitimate audience Oriental and Eastern dancing. The dances were accompanied by European music performed on Western musical instruments.
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St. Denis' new style of dancing was a hit, particularly in Europe. She continued to incorporate non-Western techniques into her dance, presenting Egyptian dances and a Japanese ballet based on Noh theater. In 1915, she and her then-dancing partner Ted Shawn, founded the Denishawn School of Dancing."...