
About Maya Deren

Maya Deren
April 29, 1917 - October 13, 1961
Place of Birth | : | Kyiv, Ukraine |
Homepage | : | http://www.mayaderen.org/ |
Imdb Profile | : | IMDB Profile |
Maya Deren (April 29, 1917 – October 13, 1961), born Eleonora Derenkowska (Ukrainian: Елеоно́ра Деренко́вська), was one of the most important American experimental filmmakers and entrepreneurial promoters of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer and photographer.