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'Ruth Doesn't Live Here Anymore' memorializes modern dance's origins by Mark Swed

The fact that modern dance was born in Los Angeles is well known, and it is not. Dance texts are not uncertain on the subject. In 1915, the pioneer Ruth St. Denis -- who took inspiration from progressive early 20th century Western theater and from the Eastern dance, theater and spiritual...

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 8:11pm on June 12, 2014 ☆ ⚑

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