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Stella Bloch (December 18, 1897 – January 20, 1999) was an American artist, dancer and journalist. She headlined as a dancer in Rochester, New York. She also worked as an artist and her work is in several collections.
Stella Bloch Papers. Scope and Content Note. The Stella Bloch Papers span the years 1907-1999 and include correspondence, writings, personal papers, and photographs. The collection is important in its documentation of Bloch’s career as both a performer and an artist.
Typescripts of essays and articles about dance, as well as artwork and sketchbooks by the Polish-born dancer, dance historian and artist Stella Bloch.
It was during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s that Bloch first sketched and painted pieces that would later be hailed as her best work. Her subjects include Josephine Baker, Thelonious Monk, and Bessie Smith (her favorite) as well as Harlem street scenes.
Stella Bloch was an ethnic dancer and artist. Bloch took dance lessons from the Isadorables and then learned native dances of the Near East during a year long trip in 1920. During the 1930s and 1940s she wrote film scripts.
Stella Bloch was born July 24, 1890, in Manhattan, New York. Her parents moved from Alabama to New York to go into the silk business. After public school Stella Bloch went to Barnard College, class of 1911, where she majored in English literature.
Stella Bloch Eliscu died at the age of 101 on January 10, 1999, at the Bethel Health Care Center, after spending her lifetime scrutinizing the world around her, distilling what she found into dance or visual images.
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