Category: dance, Tanz, danse, danza, dansa, tansii

Dancer in Bronx Park

Dancer in Bronx Park. Note on verso: “An old classmate of Ella took this one morning early in Bronx Park”. 1910s to 1930s. | src Stella Knight Ruess Archives ~ Utah.edu

Young dancers outdoors

Young Dancers, photograph of two young people in an outdoor dance performance (1940s to 1964) | src Stella Knight Ruess archives ~ Utah.edu
Young Dancers, photograph of two young people in an outdoor dance performance (Detail)
Young Dancers, photograph of two young people in an outdoor dance performance (1940s to 1964) | src Univ. of Utah

Dancer with knives

Dancer with knives [photograph of a male (?) dancer with knives, in an outdoor performance]; 1940-1964 | src Stella Knight Ruess Archives ~ Univ. of Utah

Summer School, 1920 (?)

Page 2 (left). “To sister Bertha(e) Knight who urged me to attend summer school at (…) Morgan Dancers” (handwritten). Probably 1920. From the Scrapbook kept by Stella Knight Ruess containing photographs, articles, poems, and notices related to dance performances from 1913 to 1952. | src University of Utah ~ J. Willard Marriott Library @ Omnia and MWDL

S. Ruess scrapbook, page 39

Page 39: snapshots and card announcing the celebration of Edwin Markham 97th anniversary of his birth (1949). From the Scrapbook kept by Stella Knight Ruess containing photographs, articles, poems, and notices related to dance performances from 1913 to 1952. | src University of Utah ~ J. Willard Marriott Library @ Omnia and MWDL

Poinsettia costume / Dance of the Bells

Page 5 (bottom pictures). Poinsettia costume (left) + Dance of the Bells (right), handwritten below images. From the Scrapbook kept by Stella Knight Ruess containing photographs, articles, poems, and notices related to dance performances from 1913 to 1952. | src University of Utah ~ J. Willard Marriott Library @ Omnia and MWDL