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{"value"=>"1947-2013", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1947/2013"}
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{"value"=>"Oleg Briansky and Mireille Briane collection"}
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2.26 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 box, 2 volumes", "unit"=>"containers"}], "supress_display"=>true}
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{"id"=>"DAN", "value"=>"Jerome Robbins Dance Division"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Oleg Briansky (1929-) is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, and artistic director, born in Belgium to Russian parents. Mireille Briane is a French dancer, choreographer, teacher, and artistic director. Both have worked in the United States since 1963. The Oleg Briansky and Mireille Briane collection (1947-2013) consists of photographs, programs, loose clippings, scrapbooks, and video recordings."}
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{"value"=>"Oleg Briansky and Mireille Briane collection, *MGZMD 433. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}
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{"value"=>"Briane, Mirielle", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"creator"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Oleg Briansky (1929-) is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, and artistic director. Briansky was born to Russian parents in Brussels on November 9, 1929. He was trained with the Vaganova Method, and studied with such masters as Leonide Katchourowsky, Victor Gsovsky, Madame Rousanne, Boris Kniaseff, and Vera Volkova. He made his professional debut in Brussels in 1945, and in 1946 joined the Ballets des Champs-Elysées in Paris. Over the next few years, his career flourished and he performed as a principal dancer at the London Festival Ballet, the New York Metropolitan Ballet, the Munich Opera Ballet, the Teatro Colon of Buenos Aires, the Royal Opera House in Antwerp, and the Chicago Opera Ballet.</p> <p>Mireille Briane was born in Paris and began training as a dancer at the Paris Opera at the age of 8. By the time she was 16 she was a principal dancer at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux. She was soon dancing at the Ballets des Champs-Elysées, the Ballets de Paris, the Chicago Opera Ballet, and the London Festival Ballet.</p> <p>Briansky and Briane met when they were both dancers at Les Ballets des Champs-Elysées, and they were married in 1953. During the 1950s and 1960s they often performed together in international tours in North and South America. In 1963 they settled in New York City, and in 1965 they co-founded the Briansky Saratoga Ballet Center, a professionally oriented summer dance program in Saratoga Springs, New York.</p> <p>Briane taught at the School of American Ballet, Alvin Ailey Dance Center, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Ballet de Rio de Janeiro, and Universal Ballet Academy. She also directed a series of children's ballets for Radio Television Française and created a year-long series of educational ballet programs for the Independant Television Network in Britain.</p> <p>Briansky taught for the Dance Theatre of Harlem, the School of American Ballet, the Teatro Communale in Florence, Danceworks in London, the Conservatoire National de Musique de Paris, the Universal Ballet Company in Seoul, the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, and Rosella Hightower's Centre de Danse Classique in Cannes. Briansky supervised the dances for the Academy Award-nominated documentary <span class=\"title\">The Children of Theatre Street</span> (1978).</p> <p>From 1990 to 1991, Briansky was associate director of the Universal Ballet Academy in Washington, D.C. He received the 1994 Nijinsky Award for his ballet, <span class=\"title\">Scheherazade</span>. He was also a panelist for the New York State Council on the Arts and a juror for the Prix de Lausanne International Ballet Competition. Briansky and Briane served as artistic directors of the Ballet Guild of the Lehigh Valley from 1994 to 2006.</p> <p>In 2008, the Russian filmmaker Yelena Demikovsky made a documentary about the lives and careers of Briansky and Briane, <span class=\"title\">Happy to Be So...</span>. In 2015 Briansky and Briane were awarded Mark DeGarmo Dance's \"Educational Visionary\" Lifetime Achievement Award, as \"visionaries who have promoted innovation in education through the arts.\"</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The majority of the Oleg Briansky and Mireille Briane collection consists of photographs documenting the productions Briansky and Briane performed in or choreographed in France, England, South America, and the United States. The photographs are annotated with information on the dancers and location of each production. These are arranged alphabetically by production title. There are also headshots, backstage and rehearsal shots, personal photographs, and photographs of special events. Also included is an annotated copy of Irène Lidova's 1953 publication, <span class=\"title\">17 Visages de la Danse Française</span>.</p> <p>Briansky and Briane's careers as dancers and teachers are further documented with one folder of programs. There are programs from two exhibitions at the Saratoga Ballet Center: <span class=\"title\">Ballet Memorabilia</span>, which Biansky and Briane organized with Lucien Mars in 1966 and from the 40th Anniversary Celebration of the organization, now the Briansky Saratoga Ballet Center. There are also programs from the 1978 film, <span class=\"title\">The Children of Theatre Street</span> for which Briansky supervised dance sequences; and from the Universal Ballet Academy, where Briansky and Briane worked as associate director and assistant associate director. A flyer for a screening of <span class=\"title\">Happy to Be So</span>, the documentary about Briansky and Briane, is also included.</p> <p>Publicity materials contain two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings documenting Briansky's career 1952 to 1954, when he was primarily dancing in London. One scrapbook includes notes to Briansky from Anton Dolin and Tamara Toumanova. There are a few loose clippings and a 2006 issue of the magazine <span class=\"title\">Dance Teacher</span>, which featured a cover story on Briansky and Briane.</p> <p>This collection includes filmed performances of ballets and other dance works choreographed by Briansky, as well as <span class=\"title\">Happy to Be So...</span>, a documentary about Briansky and Briane.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Oleg Briansky and Mireille Briane collection is divided into the following categories: Photographs, Programs, Publicity Materials, and Video Recordings.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Donated by Oleg Briansky, 2016.</p>"}
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Compiled by <span class=\"name\">Diana Bertolini</span>, <span class=\"date\">2016</span>.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The author/creator retains copyright of materials. For information on obtaining permission to publish, contact the Dance Division at dance@nypl.org.</p>"}
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combined
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1947
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1947
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2013
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1947
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2013
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2.26 linear feet (1 box, 2 volumes)