Desiree Lubovska (Winniefred Foote)

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Desiree Lubovska (Winniefred Foote)

“…my grandmother, Winniefred Foote (b. Faribault, MN, June 21, 1893; d. Washington, DC 1974), who at the time, under the stage name Desiree Lubovska — she had not a drop of either French nor Russian blood, despite what can now be read in various places online, nor did she ever dance with Pavlova — was the premie`re danseuse and artistic director of her own dance troupe, the National Ballet Theatre. My grandfather died of either illness or gunshot wounds — accounts differ — in a revolution in Ecuador before my father was born.”
© Bill Thayer
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/HELP/Thayer.html

“Mrs, Blanche Morgan Foote and her daughter, Mrs. Winniefred Faire Haughton of Washington. ... Mrs. Haughton membered as Desiree Lubovska, the internationally known dancer.”
© Winter Park Topics, 23 January 1942

“This emphasis on the individual qualities is also part of the training in the Ruth St. Denis company. Lubovska never attended the
school, but had her first legitimate stage appearance in the Ruth St. Denis company, and received her training from us along the lines of the Denishawn system. At the time we engaged her, she was dancing with her brother in a Los Angeles hotel grill modern dances for which she was obviously unfitted. Both she and her brother were engaged for the company, in which she appeared under the name of Mlle. Psychema. I taught her a Danse Egyptienne which suited perfectly her long lean lines, her sharp angles, and her rather exotic manner. In this dance she won great success, and the following season made a tour of the Orpheum and Keith theatres as a leading dancer, with this dance as her principal offering, and later appeared at the New York Hippodrome.”
© “Ruth St. Denis, pioneer & prophet : being a history of her cycle of oriental dances”



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Desiree Lubovska (Winniefred Foote) by Lejaren Arthur Hiller:

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