- She was also portrayed by Max Ernst, Max Beckmann and Bernhard Hoetger.
- In 1907 she moved to Berlin with her sister Erika, who later worked as an actress, translator and poet, to study Egyptology.
- Hannah Höch, in her famous photomontage, placed in the top right anti-dada quadrant the body of Sent M'Ahesa in Middle Eastern costume, juxtaposed with the head of Federal Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, the emblem of the German military effort in World War I.
- The Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis thus described the show she attended in Berlin in 1923 as one of the most beautiful pleasures of his life. He stated that she danced Indian religious dances and savage funerals. In addition, an amazing religious dance with masks.
- Like the American dancer Ruth St. Denis , Sent M'ahesa also extended her repertoire to other Indian, Native American, Thai dances.
- In 1932 she unexpectedly ended her career as a dancer and moved to Sweden, her family's country of origin. She embarked on a career as a translator and worked as a journalist for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Atlantis magazine.
- In many dances she did not use all the possibilities offered by the available space, but reproduced two-dimensional frontal or profile poses, her head to the side, moving sideways in front of a tapestry or a monochromatic curtain, a flattened movement that seemed to be taken "from ancient sculptural reliefs seen in the Berlin museum.".
- Until the mid-1920s she enjoyed considerable fame, combining "eccentricity and exoticism".
- The costumes she wore were self-made; they typically consisted of loose, North African "harem" trousers, a headdress, a draped beaded bra, and a cloak-like fabric extended down the back; stacked bracelets, shiny jewels, feathers, large earrings. Apparently belonging to eras of the past, some items of clothing were in line with the most fashionable trends. French designer Paul Poiret produced harem pants similar to those worn by Sent M'Ahesa for upper-class women.
- In 1909 she performed for the first time in Munich with a program of ancient Egyptian dances, in the same vein as the famous American dancer and choreographer Ruth St. Denis, who on her tour of Europe gave a show in Berlin in 1908, to which however it is not known whether Sent M'ahesa witnessed it.
- Kurt Joos, co-founder of the Folkwang School in Essen, met Sent M'Ahesa in the winter of 1920/21 in Stuttgart, and described her dance as "archaeological".
- She was the eldest child of Jutta Paling and Nikolai Walter-Carlberg, a government official and city secretary of Riga from 1890 to 1917.
- She appeared on stage with an ochre color spread all over her body; to wash herself after the performance, as there were yet no showers in the theater dressing rooms, she always traveled with her rubber bathtub.
- Her dances always functioned in relation to intricate, highly decorative costumes of her own design, so that it appeared as if she chose movements for their effect upon her costume.
- She was a Swedish dancer, translator and journalist.
- Initially it was thought that the name "Mahes" was derived from that of an Egyptian lion god, "Mahes," identified with Ra, the sun god, while "Sent" from the Egyptian "senet," meaning "sister." According to this interpretation, "Sent M'Ahesa" could be translated as "sister of the god Mahes.". Frank Manuel Peter of the German Dance Archive in Cologne would advance another hypothesis of her name based on an anecdote concerning the dancer and confirmed by an Egyptologist. The name was allegedly suggested to her, at her request, by an Egyptology professor who wanted to mock her, proposing "Sent M'Ahesa" which concealed the meaning of "stupid cow. " "M'Ahesa" would go back to the hieroglyphic group "m hs3. t" (pronounced "em hesat") translatable as "of a cow"; "Sent" would correspond to the Germanized form of "sn.tj" (pronounced "senti"), meaning "image" or "being in the same state as," thus "image of a cow"".
- In 1917 Expressionist sculptor and painter Bernhard Hoetger dedicated to Sent M'ahesa a bronz statue similar to the bust of queen Nefertiti.
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