Maya Deren

Known For
Directing

Popular
2.065

Birthday
1917-04-29

Place of Birth
Kyiv, Ukraine

Also Known As

  • Eleonora Derenkowsky

Maya Deren

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.