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Feb 08, 1906 Middletown, Pennsylvania, United States Died on 27 Feb 1991 (aged 85)
American dancer
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About Eleanor King
- Eleanor Campbell King (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.
- 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.
