Eleanor King, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Eleanor King

American dancer

Date of Birth: 08-Feb-1906

Place of Birth: Middletown, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 27-Feb-1991

Profession: choreographer, dancer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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.