12 Facts About Marion Rice

Marion Burbank Stevens Rice was an American modern dance choreographer, dance teacher and producer.

Marion Rice settled in Fitchburg, Massachusetts and founded the "Marion Rice Studio of the Dance" where she taught and performed Denishawn technique for over 60 years.

Marion Rice studied in the late 1920s and early 1930s with Ted Shawn, Ruth St Denis, Miriam Winslow and the Braggiotti sisters at the Braggiotti-Denishawn School of Dance in Boston, often performing Denishawn works in their concerts.

Marion Rice produced work by Ruth St Denis and Ted Shawn as well as her own choreography.

Marion Rice operated her own dance company, the Marion Rice Denishawn Dancers, and in 1980 staged her version of "Soaring," for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens in Montreal.

Marion Rice Denishawn performed at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in 1972, the Marymount Manhattan Theater in 1976 and City College in 1986 at the "Roots: Foundations of American Modern Dance Festival".

Marion Rice dedicated her creative life to teaching, preserving, protecting and performing the fifty or so dance works taught to her by Ruth St Denis, Ted Shawn, Miriam Winslow and other modern dance luminaries while she was a student and performer at the Boston Braggiotti School in Boston in the early 1900s.

Marion Rice Denishawn performed in Fitchburg, Massachusetts as well as at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in 1972, the Marymount Manhattan Theater in 1976 and City College in 1986 at the 'Roots: Foundations of American Modern Dance Festival'.

In 2000, Marion Rice Denishawn performed at the "Dance in Millennium" Festival in Washington.

Marion Rice presented "Boston Braggiotti and Denishawn", a lecture demonstration illuminating a select number of the early Denishawn works.

In 2000, Marion Rice Denishawn performed in the "Dance in Millennium" Festival in Washington, DC.

Marion Rice presented "Boston Braggiotti and Denishawn", a lecture demonstration illuminating a select number of the early Denishawn works.