Florence Fleming Noyes

Florence Fleming Noyes (1871– February 4, 1928) was an American modern dancer and dance educator.

Noyes was from Sharon, Massachusetts, near Boston,[1] and studied with Charles Wesley Emerson and Lucia Gale Barber.

[4] "With the discovery of a sense of rhythm, pupils find the doors of artistic expression open to them and forms of beauty in color, music, sculture, dance, in the written and spoken word, are the result," she explained in a 1925 interview.

[5] Much like the students of Isadora Duncan or Ruth St. Denis, Noyes' dancers wore Greek-inspired flowing silk gowns, and they dance barefoot or in sandals, both choices meant to enhance and communicate the dancer's freedom.

[2] In 1913 she dressed as Liberty at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. as part of a tableau vivant to bring publicity for the cause of women's suffrage.

Noyes as Liberty, and her attendants. A suffrage tableau on the steps of the Treasury Building. March 3, 1913