![]() ![]() But of course no translation, no matter how contemporaneous, can ever represent complete synonymy. Denis have been codified and made canonical. ![]() “Wriggler” wouldn’t be what we say these days - not now that ways of talking about Ruth St. See, for instance, how much this Radha clothesword has changed since the day in 1906 when it was written. It is 949 chapters long, and this is one of the chapters cataloged in 1904 as Radha.īecause what remains of Ruth is a history of a dancing body, its meanings are a flow which changes from chapter to chapter, and reading a chapter-to-chapter translation is a matter of understanding how clothes and the body keep changing each other. ![]() ![]() Thereafter, in penciled words and photographic images, she set about compiling the chronology of her body’s triumph, and the New York Public Library’s Denishawn Collection is now custodian of the corpus. Within history, Ruth had become a read chapter. During the time leading up to that success, her body and her closet full of cloth had had separate histories, but now they were adorning each other in a single aspect of forever after: history itself, history large and one. Denis changed her clothes and underwent metamorphosis into an event. One day the pioneer modern dancer Ruth St. ![]()
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