{"title":"New York, Cape Cod, San Antonio","authors":"Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter","doi":"10.5744/florida/9780813066097.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813066097.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter tells of La Meri’s last years in New York City (1956-1960) and her next new beginning in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with her sister Lilian Newcomer. There, she established a school, Ethnic Dance Arts, and an annual ethnic dance festival that presented artists from the United States and other countries. Gopal contacted La Meri sometime in 1958, asking her to join him in the performances he was giving in Trinidad, and she lists rehearsals and other meetings she had with him in June and August of that year. In her last years, she was cared for by William J. Adams, a former student and dancer. In 1984, she moved back to San Antonio with Adams and died there in 1988.","PeriodicalId":439457,"journal":{"name":"La Meri and Her Life in Dance","volume":"4 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127799308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Russell Meriwether Hughes","authors":"Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter","doi":"10.5744/florida/9780813066097.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813066097.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 1 begins with the life of the Hughes family, first in Louisville, Kentucky and then in San Antonio, Texas, where the father (known as Russ) died in 1914. La Meri’s birth name was Russell Meriwether Hughes (the same as her father’s). It also covers the education of Russell and her sister Lilian Hughes (Newcomer) and their training and experiences in the arts. The last section tells of Russell’s travels with her mother Lily Belle Allen Hughes: to New York City (ca. September 1919 to March 1920), to their return there (ca. spring 1922), and then to their travels in Europe (ca. July to September 1922). Russel pursued academic or performing arts studies on each of these trips.","PeriodicalId":439457,"journal":{"name":"La Meri and Her Life in Dance","volume":"149 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115193191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Appendix B.","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvwvr361.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvwvr361.17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":439457,"journal":{"name":"La Meri and Her Life in Dance","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117345444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Back Matter","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvwvr361.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvwvr361.22","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":439457,"journal":{"name":"La Meri and Her Life in Dance","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126243780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Reinvented Life in the United States as a Teacher, Innovator, and Woman, 1939–1956","authors":"Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvwvr361.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvwvr361.11","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter begins with La Meri and Carreras settling into New York City, and the continuation of their professional work. It then focuses on La Meri’s schools and teaching—particularly her Ethnologic Dance Center, which existed from 1942 to 1956. The last section covers her relationships with the three important men in her life: Carreras, who left her in 1944; Charles James Miller, a student and then member of her company; and Peter di Falco, who also began as a student and member of her company. The personal relationship between La Meri and di Falco ran from 1946 to the late 1950s, and they taught, performed, and toured together.","PeriodicalId":439457,"journal":{"name":"La Meri and Her Life in Dance","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122875397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Final Words","authors":"Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvwvr361.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvwvr361.15","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter begins with an overview of La Meri’s life and career and her contribution to the spread of knowledge about different cultures around the world, including world dance and culture. It then discusses her work in relation to modern concerns with theoretical issues—such as appropriation, cultural imposition, orientalism, and so forth—and relates it to concepts that have been investigated in gender and cultural studies. It is important to note that she performed non-Western and Western dances in both Western and non-Western locations. After La Meri settled in the United States, she performed her international repertoire to American audiences, most of whom would have known little or nothing about the foreign cultures where the dances originated. But it’s equally important to understand that both the briefness of La Meri’s actual training in the various dance forms and her minimal or non-existent knowledge of any of the local verbal languages would have limited her understanding of the foreign cultures whose dances she studied, performed, and taught—and about which she wrote.","PeriodicalId":439457,"journal":{"name":"La Meri and Her Life in Dance","volume":"2676 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134027547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"List of Figures","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvwvr361.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvwvr361.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":439457,"journal":{"name":"La Meri and Her Life in Dance","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133531598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Here and There in a World of Turmoil, October 1937 to October 1939","authors":"Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvwvr361.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvwvr361.10","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter covers the return of La Meri and Carreras to the United States and their work in New York, including La Meri’s first totally “ethnic” dance concert. Then it discusses their next Latin American tour (February to August, 1938), some months in Italy, engagements in London, a United States tour (February to April, 1939), and their third and last Latin American tour. As World War II was beginning, they abruptly had to sail back to the United States. Of course, that disaster made it unfeasible to return to Italy, so they settled in New York—the best choice at the time.","PeriodicalId":439457,"journal":{"name":"La Meri and Her Life in Dance","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128508647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvwvr361.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvwvr361.21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":439457,"journal":{"name":"La Meri and Her Life in Dance","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127435220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Early Professional Work and Touring, 1920s","authors":"Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvwvr361.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvwvr361.7","url":null,"abstract":"La Meri’s professional dance work began in San Antonio in 1920 and then subsequently included performances in New York and on international tours. She started out in silent movie “prologues” and annual San Antonio celebrations and then went on to have roles in various theatrical works. She began using “La Meri” as her professional name in 1926. From that year until the 1940s, Guido Carreras, her agent and then husband, arranged bookings for her. These included engagements in Mexico in 1926, Cuba and Puerto Rico in 1927, and Central and South America from June 1928 to August 1929. Her early programs included works of ballet and interpretive dance.","PeriodicalId":439457,"journal":{"name":"La Meri and Her Life in Dance","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125595896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}