Found 13 collections related to Notes

Carl Wolz (1932-2002) was an influential choreographer, scholar, educator, and dance advocate. The Carl Wolz papers document his career as an educator and choreographer. The collection contains awards, choreographic notes, correspondence, contracts, documents from various institutions with which Wolz worked, programs, and teaching materials. less

May O'Donnell was an American modern dancer and choreographer. Her husband, Ray Green was an American composer who created works for dance companies as well as orchestral, choral, and children's pieces. The May O'Donnell and Ray Green papers contain correspondence, choreographic notes, scores, photographs, and other materials relating to the professional and personal lives of the couple. less

Nala Najan (1932-2002) was an American-born dancer, choreographer and writer who specialized in the traditional dances of India. The Nala Najan papers hold correspondence, contracts, diaries, programs, photographs, writings, and other files relating to the career and personal life of the artist. less

The Malena Kuss files on Carleton Sprague Smith date from 1981 to 2007. They mainly document the creation of Libraries, History, Diplomacy, and the Performing Arts: Essays in Honor of Carleton Sprague Smith (1991), for which Kuss served as an associate editor. less

The Joseph Mitchell papers (1838-2011) primarily relate to Mitchell's career as a journalist and New Yorker writer and his proclivity to document life in New York City. The collection is comprised of correspondence, writings, research material, notes, ephemera, and photographs. Posthumous material relating to Mitchell is included as well as nineteenth and early twentieth century records amassed by Mitchell. less

The Jennifer Tipton lighting designs date from 1958 to 2013 and contain technical lighting documents created by Tipton throughout the course of her career as a lighting designer for dance, theater, opera, and installations, primarily in the United States. less

Rosemary Woodruff Leary (1935-2002), (also known as "Ro" and Sarah Woodruff), sought to educate people about the psychedelic experience. Woodruff lived for over twenty years as a fugitive for her role in assisting her husband, Dr. Timothy Leary, escape from prison in 1970. This collection documents her relationship with Leary and her twenty years as a fugitive through correspondence, photographs, ephemera, clippings, and drafts of her unpublished memoir, A Magician's Daughter. less

Jim Carroll was an American poet, diarist, and rock musician associated with the downtown arts scene in New York City. Carroll is known for his published diaries of youth and early adulthood and as vocalist and songwriter for the Jim Carroll Band. The Jim Carroll papers date from 1906 to 2009, and contain notes, manuscripts, sound and video recordings, printed matter, correspondence, photographs, personal memorabilia, and Carroll's personal library. The collection documents his work across artistic media, with an emphasis on his music, fiction, and poetry after 1980. less

Claudia Gitelman (1936-2012), was a dancer, choreographer, author, and assistant professor at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Her artistic collaborators for productions include Alwin Nikolais, Murray Louis, and Hanya Holm. The Claudia Gitelman papers, dated 1946-2012 (bulk dates 2010-2011), focuses mostly on Gitelman's curatorial work for Alwin Nikolais' Total Theater of Motion, a centennial celebration held at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts from 2010 to 2011. These files include correspondence, photographs of the Nikolais Dance Theatre dance performances, watercolor sketches of dancers, and programs. Gitelman's career development is represented to a lesser extent mainly through photographs, programs and writings. The electronic records contain a number of manuscripts, drafts, and planning documents for the book On Stage Alone: Soloists and the Modern Dance Canon (2012) that Gitelman co-edited with Barbara Palfy. Other materials in the collection include clippings, notebooks, and notes. less