Theater
Unknown Artist
Ruth St Denis Dance Pagent Greek Theatre
Ruth St. Denis 1878-1968 was a pioneer of contemporary dance in America. She was a sensation in her early years performing individual dances like Radha and Incense, Ruth St. Denis entered the inner realisation of the figures of divinity that she chose to perform - like Mary, Kwan Yin, the Yogi, O-Mika and others and from that feeling danced a vision of perfection. By choosing figures from many different cultures, Ruth St. Denis presented a wordless show of unity before thousands of audiences all over the world through-out her life. In her unpublished book The Divine Dance (1933), Ruth St. Denis wrote of her vision of a future dance for life and peace: