Queer Places:
51 W 12th St, New York, NY 10011
42 3rd St, Glens Falls, NY 12801
Saint Alphonsus Roman Catholic Cemetery
Queensbury, Warren County, New York, USA
Elsie
L. Dufour (July 31, 1904 - April 13, 1984) was a dancer. She was a
member of the Heterodoxy Club. "Dance,"
Dufour said. "That is the most natural form of self-expression. And rhythm is as necessary to life as philosophy. Get your
body free and harmonious and your mind and your soul will find their highest form of expression."
In the 1920s Dufour was the leader of a unique school in New York. She taught her pupils to find themselves first, then express their inner selves in rhythmic dancing. By learning to play, they also learned to work more intelligently and more joyfully. "Too many of us belong to the armchair school." Dufour daid. "We yearn for a rich, full life, and for beauty, but we expect it to come to us. When it doesn't, we rail at fate."
Dufour was born in Gasport on July 31, 1904, the daughter of Joseph Arthur Dufour and Anna Dufour. In the 1940s she lived in Glen Falls, NY, and worked at the Marinette Paper Company.
Title
Elsie Dufour dancers
Contributor Names
Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942, photographer
Created / Published
between 1918 and 1920?
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