Stella Knight Ruess scrapbook

Page 42. 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

Piper and Morgan dancers

Photograph from Stella Knight Ruess (1879-1964) scrapbook: open air dance performance with piper and Morgan (?) dancers
Page 2 (right picture) from Stella Knight Ruess (1879-1964) scrapbook: open air dance performance, 1920s (?)

“To sister Bertha(e) Knight who urged me to attend summer school at (…) Morgan Dancers” (handwritten on bottom). 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

Full page 2 from Stella Knight Ruess (1879-1964) scrapbook

Stella Knight was born on 9 July 1879, in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio; Daughter of William Henry Knight and Ella Joana Waters. She married Christopher George Ruess on 2nd April 1905, in Los Angeles, California. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts in 1920 and Los Angeles, California, for about 10 years. She died on 10 May 1964, in Los Angeles, California.

Photograph from Stella Knight Ruess (1879-1964) scrapbook: open air dance performance with piper and Morgan (?) dancers

Tanzaufnahme von Franz Löwy

Franz Löwy :: Dance scene, from the “Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes” in Paris 1925
Fotografie einer Tanzaufnahme von Franz Löwy auf der “Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes” in Paris 1925 (vom Bearbeiter vergebener Titel) | src MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst

Mary Wigman in Maskentanz

«Mary Wigman in ihrem neuen Maskentanz, einer stark bewegten Gruppenszene, in der die Gespenster des Schalachtfeldes lebendig weden» | UHU 1926

Mary Wigman in her new masked dance, a highly moving group scene in which the ghosts of the battlefield come to life. Uncredited photographer. Published in UHU magazine, Heft 8, May 1926 | src UHU ~ Illustrierte Presse

«Mary Wigman in her new masked dance, a highly moving group scene in which the ghosts of the battlefield come to life» | UHU 1926

Demon Machine by Atelier d’Ora – Benda, 1936

Atelier d'Ora - Benda :: Gertrud Bodenwieser. Dance scene: "Demon Machine", 11.05.1936. | src and © Theatermuseum, Wien
Atelier d’Ora – Benda :: Gertrud Bodenwieser. Dance scene: “Demon Machine”, 11.05.1936. | src and © Theatermuseum, Wien
Atelier dʼOra-Benda :: Tänzerinnen des Ensembles Gertrud Bodenwieser in "Dämon Maschine", 1936. | Dancers of Gertrud Bodenwieser's ensemble in "Demon Machine", 1936. | src Theatermuseum © KHM-Museumsverband
Atelier dʼOra-Benda :: Tänzerinnen des Ensembles Gertrud Bodenwieser in “Dämon Maschine”, 1936. | Dancers of Gertrud Bodenwieser’s ensemble in “Demon Machine”, 1936. | src Theatermuseum © KHM-Museumsverband
Atelier d’Ora - Benda :: Poses from The Demon machine, dated 1936 | src NLA / Papers of Gertrud Bodenwieser
Atelier d’Ora – Benda :: Poses from The Demon machine, dated 1936 | src NLA / Papers of Gertrud Bodenwieser