Ruth St, Denis Fourth Performance Season Program, Dance-Music-Poetry: Ruth St. Denis, Ruth St. Denis, Ruth Thompson, Piano; Craig Ward, Poet, 1921
Ruth St. Denis The Program Fourth Performance of the Series,
Season of Dance-Music-Poetry
Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, Ann Thompson, Pianist; Craig Ward, Actor-Poet
Trinity Auditorium Saturday February 26, 1921 8:15 P.M.
The Ruth St. Denis Dancing Girls
I. Ancient Greek Suite of Dance, Music and Poetry
Scene: The Garden of Sappho, the Poetess
Sappho . . . Ruth St. Denis
Phaon . . . Craig Ward
Girl Companions of Sappho: Dorothea Bowen, Betty May, Lenore Hellickson, Betty Rohrer
Music by Bantock; Dance of three: Second Arabesque, Debussy, Played by Katharine Goodson.
II. Piano Solos: Ann Thompson
a) Polichinelle . . . Rachmaninoff
b) Sleepy Hollow . . . Eastwood Lane
c) Etude in D Flat . . . Liszt
III. Japanese Suite
The Flower Arrangement . . . Ruth St. Denis
Spear Dance (Japanesque) . . . Ted Shawn
Dance . . . Ruth Kadamatsu
Intermission
IV. Dances
1. The Spirit of the Rose . . . Ruth St. Denis; Music from Phryne by Louis Ganne
2. Gnossienne . . . Ted Shawn; Music by Erik Satie
3. Music Visualization . . . Dorothea Bowen; Music Ecossaises, Op. 72, No. 3, Chopin, played by Theodore Henrion
4. Dance of the Black and Gold Sari . . . Ruth St. Denis; Music by Stoughton
5. Music Visualization . . . Ted Shawn; Seguidilla by Albeniz, played by George Copeland
6. Music Visualization . . . Ruth St. Denis
a) Waltz, Op. 39, No. 15 . . . Brahms, played by Rafael Navas
b) Premier Valse Oubliee . . . Liszt, played by Richard Buhlig
7. Invocation to the Thunderbird . . . Ted Shawn; Music, Dwellers from a Western World, Sousa
8. Music Visualization . . . Betty May Music: Rigaudon by MacDowell Played by Olga Steeb
9) The Dance of Theodora, Empress of Byzantium . . . Ruth St. Denis; Music by Granades
Intermission
V. Egyptian Suite
1. Tillers of the Soil . . . Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn
2. Hymn to the Sun . . . Ruth St. Denis and Craig Ward
3. Palace Dance . . . Ted Shawn
4. Tambourine Dance . . . Misses Bowen, May, Rohrer, Hellickson
5. Isis and Osiris-Dance of the Rebirth . . . Ruth St, Denis and Ted Shawn.
"The Piano is the Knabe with the Ampico"
"Fitzgerald Music Company:
"I must express to you the joy that I have had in my wonderful Knabe with the Ampico. My wonder at this magical instrument-that can produce the delicate feeling of the player's fingers on the keys and can make you realize the dynamic personality of the pianist at the same time-is a wonder that never ceases. I have months and years of joy ahead of me" Yours very gratefully, Ruth St. Denis."