Found 2 collections related to Ballroom%20dancing%20--%20United%20States

The Mura Dehn Collection documents Mura Dehn's professional life as dancer, choreographer, scholar and filmmaker, and to a lesser degree, her personal life through notebooks, poetry and correspondence. Most important are the research notes and drafts of her many scholarly writings on the development of Afro-American social dance in this country. less

The Ballroom dance oral history collection contains oral history interviews with 28 professional and amateur dancers from the New York ballroom dance community. Interviewed by Emita Brady Hill, the oral history interviews detail the dancers' experience in the ballroom dance community, their personal and training background, and how they became interested in dance. less