Professor of Dance
Dance History, Spanish Dance, Choreography, and Research Methods
Nancy Lee Ruyter, B.A. and Ph. D in History. Dance historian,
choreographer, teacher. Professor of Dance, University of California,
Irvine, where she has taught since 1982. Practical training in dance
has included ballet, modern, Spanish, East Indian, Balkan, and other
world dance forms. Publications include Reformers and Visionaries:
The Americanization of the Art of Dance (1979); The Cultivation
of Body and Mind in 19th-Century American Delsartism (1999); and
many articles on the Delsarte system and its uses, Spanish dance, Balkan
dance, Latin American and Spanish theater, and theater movement. She is
currently working on a biography of the international dance artist La
Meri (Russell Meriwether Hughes, 1898-1988).
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