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{{Short description|French-Indian dancer and choreographer (1896–1971)}}
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| alt = Nyota Inyoka, from a 1922 publication.
| caption = Nyota Inyoka, from a 1922 publication.
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| birth_date = 1896
| birth_place = Pondicherry
| death_date = 1971
| death_place = Paris
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'''Nyota Inyoka''' (1896 – July 1971), sometimes billed as '''Princess Nyota Inyoka''', was a [[French people|French]]-[[Indian people|Indian]] dancer and choreographer.

== Early life ==
Nyota Inyoka was born in [[Puducherry (city)|Pondicherry]]<ref name=":0">Tessa Jahn, [https://books.google.com/books?id=_ZxeCwAAQBAJ&dq=Nyota+Inyoka&pg=PA187 "Cutting into History: The 'Hindu Dancer' Nyota Inyoka's Photomontages"] in Christoph Wulf, ed., ''Exploring Alterity in a Globalized World'' (Routledge 2016): 187–195. {{ISBN|9781317331131}}</ref> and raised in Paris,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30418250/nyota_inyoka_1924/|title=Dancing Princess Educated in Paris|date=April 27, 1924|work=Daily News|access-date=April 9, 2019|page=153|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> the daughter of a French mother and an Indian father, though she was sometimes billed as being "Egyptian", "Persian", or "Cambodian".<ref>{{Cite news|title=On the Concert Horizon|date=November 18, 1923|work=The New York Times|page=X7}}</ref><ref>Victoria Rose Pass, "Strange Glamour: Fashion and Surrealism in the Years between the World Wars" (PhD diss., University of Rochester 2011): 203.  </ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rb-GDAAAQBAJ&q=Princess+Nyota&pg=PA98|title=Performing Otherness: Java and Bali on International Stages, 1905–1952|last=Cohen|first=M.|year=2010|publisher=Springer|isbn=9780230309005|pages=98–99|language=en}}</ref> Both of her parents were teachers.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j1w9XT-vNRwC&q=Nyota+Inyoka&pg=PA93|title=Modern Dance in France (1920-1970): An Adventure|last=Robinson|first=Jacqueline|year=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781134396788|pages=90–93|language=en}}</ref>

== Career ==
[[File:NyotaInyoka1922b.jpg|alt=Nyota Inyoka, from a 1922 publication.|thumb|Nyota Inyoka, from a 1922 publication.]]
Nyota Inyoka's dances and costumes appealed to a wider Western fascinations with the exotic, ancient, and "[[Orientalism|oriental]]", in the 1920s and beyond.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Warren|first=Vincent|date=2006|title=Yearning for the Spiritual Ideal: The Influence of India on Western Dance 1626–2003|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/dance-research-journal/article/yearning-for-the-spiritual-ideal-the-influence-of-india-on-western-dance-16262003/24B17054E01CB5E9B448937D89D5F4F7|journal=Dance Research Journal|language=en|volume=38|issue=1–2|pages=97–114|doi=10.1017/S0149767700007403|s2cid=193774298 |issn=1940-509X|url-access=subscription}}</ref> She frequently researched her dances in the collections of the [[Guimet Museum|Musée Guimet]].<ref name=":0" /> She danced at the [[Folies Bergère]] in 1917,<ref name=":0" /> in New York in 1920, and again in Paris in 1921, wearing costumes by designer [[Paul Poiret]]. She performed in the United States from 1922 to 1924, where she appeared in [[vaudeville]] and gave recitals with Japanese dancer [[Michio Itō]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Archbald|first=Anne|date=November 1923|title=The Vanity Box|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dwlEAQAAIAAJ&q=Nyota+Inyoka&pg=RA12-PA68|journal=Theatre Magazine|volume=38|page=68}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|date=December 1923|title=Winter Interludes Which are Instinct with Grace and Rhythm|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nXY7AQAAIAAJ&q=Nyota+Inyoka&pg=RA5-PA42|magazine=Vanity Fair|volume=21|pages=42}}</ref> "Little Mme. Nyota Inyoka conjured up historic pictures, with childlike native grace and baby smile, strangely consorted with rapt moods of the East," commented a reviewer in ''The New York Times,'' continuing in a similar vein to describe her "cherubic but elastic torso, whirlwind arms and gyrating legs".<ref>{{Cite news|title=Gives Eastern Dances; Princess Nyota Inyoka is Greeted by a Brilliant Audience|date=February 25, 1924|work=The New York Times|page=13}}</ref> While in New York, she danced in a program with [[Anna Pavlova]] at a costume party hosted by artist [[Malvina Hoffman]] in 1924.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Costume Party Given by Malvina Hoffman|date=May 6, 1924|work=The New York Times|page=21}}</ref> Sensational reports in the American press described her as haunted, cursed, mysterious; some even posited "death threats" that awaited her in India because of her revealing costumes, presumably to heighten interest in her performances.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30418008/nyota_inyoka_1924/|title=Mystery of the Beautiful Indian Princess|date=May 25, 1924|work=The Ogden Standard-Examiner|access-date=April 8, 2019|page=27|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Inyoka taught dance in Paris for decades, and often performed in Paris and internationally.<ref>{{Cite news|title=The Dance: Busy Times|last=Martin|first=John|date=December 19, 1937|work=The New York Times|page=156}}</ref> Sculptor [[Paul Landowski]] made a series of small bronze dancing figures based on Nyota Inyoka in 1947.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.paul-landowski.com/en/petit-statuaire/|title=Small statues – Paul Landowski|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-09}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Inyoka died from stomach cancer in 1971, aged 75.<ref name=":1" /> Her gravesite is at [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]] in Paris.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.appl-lachaise.net/appl/article.php3?id_article=6555|title=Inkoya Nyota (1896–1971)|website=www.appl-lachaise.net|access-date=2019-04-09}}</ref> Her papers are in the [[Bibliothèque nationale de France]].<ref>[http://rasp.culture.fr/sdx/rasp/document.xsp?id=f00001673 Fonds Inyoka (Nyota)], Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des arts du spectacle.</ref> There is a videocassette of Inyoka dancing in the Malvina Hoffman Papers at the Getty Institute.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf4580034j/dsc/|title=Hoffman (Malvina) Papers|website=oac.cdlib.org|access-date=2019-04-09}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==

* [https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/2024913/photography_ProvidedCHO_Parisienne_de_Photographie_58749_8.html A photograph of Nyota Inyoka] (circa 1930) by Boris Lipnitzki, at Europeana Collections.
*[https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/exotic-dancer-princess-nyota-nyoka-arrives-in-new-york-news-photo/143121212 A photograph of Nyota Inyoka] (1922), from [[Getty Images]].
*[https://www.gettyimages.fr/detail/photo-d'actualit%C3%A9/nyota-inyoka-dancer-india-1931-photo-rosie-ney-photo-dactualit%C3%A9/548202605 A photograph of Nyota Inyoka] (1931) by Rosie Ney, from Getty Images.
* [http://www.artnet.com/artists/andr%C3%A9-steiner/nyota-inyoka-danseuse-cambodgienne-hWk9vxXD6boq--R20I4u2w2 A photograph of Nyota Inyoka] (1937) by André Steiner, at [[Artnet]].
* [https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/lancelot-ney-1900-1965-portrait-5528356-details.aspx An oil portrait of Nyota Inyoka] (1931) by Lancelot Ney, at [[Christie's]].

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