Maya Deren
Birthday: 1917-04-29
Deathday: 1961-10-13
Place of birth: Kyiv, Ukraine
Also known as: Eleonora Derenkowsky
imdb_id: nm0220305
Biography:
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.
