Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Maya Deren across 4 places, from 1935 to 1943.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Maya Deren (born Eleonora Solomonovna Derenkovskaya; – October 13, 1961) was a Russian-born American experimental filmmaker and important part of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Maya Deren was documented, and when
1935year
New York Cityattested“After his graduation in 1935, she moved to New York City.”source: Wikipedia: Maya Deren
1935year
New Yorkattested“After his graduation in 1935, she moved to New York City.”source: Wikipedia: Maya Deren
1940year
Los Angelesattested“In 1940, Deren moved to Los Angeles to focus on her poetry and freelance photography.”source: Wikipedia: Maya Deren
1943year
Hollywood, Los Angelesattested“In 1943, she moved to a bungalow on Kings Road in Hollywood and adopted the name Maya, a pet name her second husband Hammid coined.”source: Wikipedia: Maya Deren
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1922year
Syracuse, New Yorkmentioned“In 1922, the family fled the Ukrainian SSR because of antisemitic pogroms perpetrated by the White Volunteer Army and moved to Syracuse, New York.”source: Wikipedia: Maya Deren
June 1936month
New York Universitymentioned“She finished school at New York University with a Bachelor's degree in literature in June 1936, and returned to Syracuse that fall.”source: Wikipedia: Maya Deren
June 1936month
New Yorkmentioned“She finished school at New York University with a Bachelor's degree in literature in June 1936, and returned to Syracuse that fall.”source: Wikipedia: Maya Deren
1938year
Smith Collegementioned“In 1938, Deren attended the New School for Social Research, and received a master's degree in English literature at Smith College.”source: Wikipedia: Maya Deren
1938year
Czechoslovakiamentioned“Hackenschmied had fled from Czechoslovakia in 1938 after the Sudetenland crisis.”source: Wikipedia: Maya Deren
1942year
Haitimentioned“Exposure to these documents led her to write her 1942 essay titled, "Religious Possession in Dancing." Afterwards, Deren wrote several articles on religious possession in dancing before her first trip to Haiti.”source: Wikipedia: Maya Deren
1944year
New York Citymentioned“In 1944, back in New York City, her social circle included Marcel Duchamp, André Breton, John Cage, and Anaïs Nin.”source: Wikipedia: Maya Deren
1944year
New Yorkmentioned“In 1944, back in New York City, her social circle included Marcel Duchamp, André Breton, John Cage, and Anaïs Nin.”source: Wikipedia: Maya Deren
1944year
Port Jefferson, New Yorkmentioned“Deren filmed At Land in Port Jefferson and Amagansett, New York in the summer of 1944.”source: Wikipedia: Maya Deren
February 1946month
Greenwich Villagementioned“In February 1946 she booked the Provincetown Playhouse in Greenwich Village for a major public exhibition, titled Three Abandoned Films, in which she showed Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), At Land (1944) and A Study in Choreography for C…”source: Wikipedia: Maya Deren
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