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Eleanor King | |
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 Dancing in her self-choreographed work "Hornpipe" in 1935 | |
| Born | February 8, 1906 Middletown, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | February 27, 1991 (aged 85) Haddonfield, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Modern dancer, choreographer, professor |
| Years active | 1927–1991 |
| Career | |
| Former groups | Humphrey-Weidman Dance Company Theater Dance Company Eleanor King Dance Repertory Company American Dance Repertory Theater University of Alabama, professor |
| Website | www |
Eleanor Campbell King[1] (1906–1991) was an American modern dancer, choreographer, and educator. She was a member of the original Humphrey-Weidman company, where she was a principal dancer in the pioneering modern dance movement in New York City, then moving on to choreography and founding her own dance company in Seattle, Washington.[2] She was a professor emerita at the University of Arkansas, where she taught from 1952 to 1971, before retiring to Santa Fe, New Mexico, to start a new course of study into classical Japanese and Korean dance. She choreographed over 120 dance works, and wrote extensively for a variety of dance publications. In 1948, she was named Woman of the Year in Seattle, and in 1986 was listed as a "Santa Fe Living Treasure", also receiving the New Mexico Governor's Artist Award. In 2000, her archive was recognized by the White House Millennium Council's "Save America's Treasures" program.
- ^ Jordan, John W. (1915). Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography. Vol. IV. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing. p. 1288. Retrieved January 31, 2014.
- ^ Dunning, Jennifer (1991-03-02). "Eleanor King, a modern dancer and choreographer, dies at 85". The New York Times.