Gilda Navarra archives

id
10768
origination
Navarra, Gilda, 1921-
date statement
1926-2007
key date
1926
identifier (local_mss)
23884
org unit
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
call number
*MGZMD 450
b-number
b21150562
total components
42
total series
0
max depth
5
boost queries
(none)
component layout
Default Layout
Extended MARC Fields
false
Extended Navigation
false
created
2017-01-23 21:23:49 UTC
updated
2026-06-25 15:07:55 UTC
status note
(missing)
Display Aeon link
true

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unitid
{"value"=>"*MGZMD 450", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"23884", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b21150562", "type"=>"local_b"}
unitdate
{"value"=>"1926-2007", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1926/2007"}
unittitle
{"value"=>"Gilda Navarra archives"}
physdesc
{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"6.4 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"22 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}], "supress_display"=>true}
repository
{"id"=>"DAN", "value"=>"Jerome Robbins Dance Division"}
abstract
{"value"=>"Gilda Navarra (née Gilda Garcia Daubón, 1921-2015) was a dancer, choreographer, director, and mime. Navarra established the Taller Histriones Workshop in 1971 and held a professorship in theatre at the University of Puerto Rico. The Gilda Navarra archives, dated c. 1926 to 2007, are mainly scrapbooks that documents Navarra from childhood to her career as an artist in the performing arts. The collection holds clippings, certificates, letters, photographs, programs, posters, slides (in binders), sketches, and an artifact. The collection is mostly in Spanish."}
prefercite
{"value"=>"Gilda Navarra archives, *MGZMD 450. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}
origination
{"value"=>"Navarra, Gilda, 1921-", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"creator"}
bioghist
{"value"=>"<p>Gilda Navarra (née Gilda Garcia Daubón, 1921-2015) was a dancer, choreographer, director and mime. Navarra (stage name) was born on May 23, 1921, to Dr. Estaban Garcia Cabrera and Dona Angela Daubón in Puerto Rico. From an early age, Navarra and her sister Ana Garcia developed an interest in ballet and Spanish dance.</p> <p>During the years 1930 to 1950, Navarra traveled to the United States and Europe. She graduated from the College of Mt. Saint Vincent in New York; trained at the School of American Ballet, and toured with José Greco (1918-2000) in Europe. Returning to Puerto Rico Navarra and her sister Ana Garcia established the Ballets de San Juan in 1954.</p> <p>After several years with the company, Navarra went back to the United States to study mime. By 1964, she returned to Puerto Rico to teach mime at the University of Puerto Rico, a position that she held for thirty years. Navarra also established the Taller Histriones (Histriones Workshop) a mime theatre in 1971. It was during this time, Navarra would become known as the \"woman of silence,\" and \"the storyteller without words.\" For fourteen years, the Taller Histriones performed many productions that include <span class=\"title\">Los Tres Cornudos</span>, <span class=\"title\">Asintota</span>, and <span class=\"title\"> La Mujer del Abanico</span> (The Woman's Fan). After Taller Histriones ceased operations, Navarra would continue to participate in various productions.</p> <p>Navarra died in Puerto Rico in 2015.</p>"}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p>Navarra created four massive scrapbooks (three were previously dis-bound) to reflect her professional career in the performing arts, and to a lesser extent her family and social life. The scrapbooks hold clippings, certificates, letters, photographs, programs, posters, sketches, an artifact and slides. There are also three binders of slides.</p> <p>Taller de Histriones is represented by two scrapbooks that document their first production <span class=\"title\">Los Tres Cornudas</span> (The Three Cuckoides), to one of their entitled <span class=\"title\">Polimnia</span>. A feature of the Taller de Histriones scrapbooks involves Navarra's use of borderless oversize photographs. This results with a dramatic close-up of the mimes. The production <span class=\"title\">La Mujer del Abanico</span> (The Woman's Fan) represents an example of behind-the-scenes. The makeup artist applies makeup similar to Kabuki dancers. Articles, reviews, and interviews of Navarra were also evident. Other productions include <span class=\"title\">Abelard and Heloise</span>, <span class=\"title\">Asintola</span>,<span class=\"title\">Esperando a Godot</span> (Navarra performed), <span class=\"title\">Ocho Y Mujeres</span>, and <span class=\"title\">La Olla</span>.</p> <p>Another scrapbook spans Navarra's childhoodthrough her professional career. Family photographs show a prosperous upbringing with her sister Ana Garcia and family portraits with their mother. Other photographs and printed matter include Navarra's professional debut at the end of World War II; traveling abroad with Jose Greco and troupe to Madrid and Paris, and extensive photographs of her stage wardrobe.</p> <p>Navarra also retained materials from the productions of Ballets de San Juan such as newspaper advertisements for the shows, programs, and photographs of Navarra and her sister Ana Garcia. It was during this period in the 1950's that Navarra began to employ large borderless photographs of her in performance. These photographs show multiple stage movements of the dancers. Other photographs show Navarra enjoying social activities with her friends and fellow performers. The latter half of the scrapbook is similar to the last scrapbook (incomplete), and represents mostly the post-performance accomplishments of Navarra, accolades and social activities.</p> <p>There is also a plaque and three volumes of slides of productions.</p>"}
arrangement
{"value"=>"<p>The scrapbooks and the slides are chronologically arranged.</p>"}
acqinfo
{"value"=>"<p>Donated by Gilda Navarra, 2012.</p>"}
processinfo
{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Compiled by <span class=\"name\">Valerie Wingfield</span>, <span class=\"date\">2016</span>.</p>"}
userestrict
{"value"=>"<p>The author/creator retains copyright of materials.</p>"}
dsc_type
combined
date_start
1926
keydate
1926
date_end
2007
date_inclusive_start
1926
date_inclusive_end
2007
extent_statement
6.4 linear feet (22 boxes)

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