{{Short description|American writer, performer, composer and dancer}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2014}} {{Infobox dancer | name = Jane Sherman | image = Jane Sherman.jpg | alt = | caption = | full_name = | birth_name = | birth_date = June 14, 1908 | birth_place = [[Beloit, Wisconsin]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2010|3|16|1908|6|14}} | death_place = [[Englewood, New Jersey]] | height = | occupation = Writer, dancer, composer | years_active = | current_group = | former_groups = | dances = | website = <!-- {{URL|website}} --> }}
'''Jane Sherman''' (June 14, 1908 – March 16, 2010) was an American writer, performer, composer, and one-time dancer and member of the [[The Rockettes|Rockettes]] the famed in-house dance troupe of [[Radio City Music Hall]].<ref>Obituary ''[[New York Times]]'', March 20, 2010; page B8 [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/20/arts/20sherman.html].</ref> She was a former member and [[authority]] of [[Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts|Denishawn]], the eclectic company, founded by [[Ruth St. Denis]] and [[Ted Shawn]] in 1915. She performed with companies ranging from modern-dance groups to the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes.
==Early life== Sherman was born in [[Beloit, Wisconsin]], on June 14, 1908, to Horace Humphrey Sherman, an advertising writer, and Florentine St. Clair, an opera singer. The family moved to New York City in 1921, where Jane began studying dancing, after she saw a [[Ruth St. Denis|St. Denis]] program that included "[[Brahms Waltzes|Brahms Waltz]] and [[Liebesträume]]", a solo that inspired her to study at the New York Denishawn School.
==Career== === Dancing=== From 1927 to 1928, she joined the [[Ziegfeld Follies]] and toured with the troupe, and later returned to [[modern dance]] as a member of the [[Humphrey-Weidman Company]] in 1928. She also appeared in [[Broadway musical|Broadway revues]] and was a [[The Rockettes|Rockette]] in 1934 and 1935.
===Editing=== After her dance career ended, she became a fiction editor at [[Seventeen (American magazine)|''Seventeen'']] magazine in the 1940s.
==Personal life== In 1940, Jane Sherman married Ned Lehac, a high school [[Science Teacher]] who was also a composer and lyricist for [[revues]], contributing material to 14 shows from 1930 to 1942. In the 1990s they moved together to the [[Lillian Booth Actors Home]], run by the [[Actors Fund]], where he died in 1999, aged 99.
In 2003, Jane began publishing poems, gathering them into little books, some of which commented on aging. In a poem from her self-published book "Songs of Senescence".
==Death== On March 16, 2010, Sherman died at the age of 101.
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