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{"value"=>"185484", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"1920s-1950s", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1920/1959"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Angna Enters photographs"}
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"19 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"6.62 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Jerome Robbins Dance Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Angna Enters (1897-1989) was a pantomime dancer, artist, writer, and dance instructor. She is best known for creating costumes, props, sets, and dance-mime character vignettes for her <span class=\"title\">Theater of Angna Enters</span>. Her photographs span from the 1920s to the 1950s and consist mainly of Doris Ulmann's proof prints and glass negatives of Enters in costume as her pantomime characters at studios or in nature. The photographs also hold images of her hands in various poses, performing onstage, and posing with another artist."}
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{"value"=>"English"}
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{"value"=>"Enters, Angna, 1897-1989", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Angna Enters (born Anita Enters, in 1897) was a pantomime dancer, artist, and writer, best known for her dance mime character vignettes that she developed for the <span class=\"title\">Theater of Angna Enters</span>. Enters designed the sets and created the costumes and props for her performances. She wrote and illustrated three autobiographies about her life, <span class=\"title\">First Person Plural</span> (1937), <span class=\"title\">Silly Girl</span> (1944), and <span class=\"title\">Artist's Life</span> (1958); a fictional novel, <span class=\"title\">Among the Daughters</span> (1956); and a book about her work, <span class=\"title\">On Mime</span> (1966).</p> <p>Enters spent her childhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin studying ballet and piano. In 1915, she graduated from North Division High School and saw her first Denishawn concert tour. She enrolled in the Milwaukee State Normal School, studying design in 1916.</p> <p>In 1919, Enters enrolled in the Art Students League in New York City and worked at an advertising agency. She met, studied, and performed with Michio Ito in the early 1920s, developing and performing her first dance-pantomime piece, \"Ecclésiastique,\" in 1923. The work eventually became her best-known piece, \"Moyen Age.\"</p> <p>Enters met art critic Louis Kalonyme (born Louis Kantor) in 1921. The pair started dating secretly in 1924 and married in 1936. Enters and Kalonyme co-authored a play, <span class=\"title\">Love Possessed Juana: A Play of the Inquisition in Spain</span> (1939). They kept their relationship a secret until shortly before he died in 1961.</p> <p>In 1924, Enters presented her first solo program in New York City. She toured the United States, Canada, and Europe performing the <span class=\"title\">Theater of Angna Enters</span> from 1924 to 1939. The program included almost 300 separate wordless character vignettes. Enters continued performing through the 1960s.</p> <p>Enters was also a prolific visual artist. The first New York exhibition of her drawings and paintings opened in 1933. The Museum of Modern Art and a theater exposition in Naples, Italy exhibited her set and costume designs.</p> <p>From the 1950s to the early 1970s, Enters' career shifted to teaching her dance mime as an instructor and artist-in-residence at the Stella Adler School, Dallas Theatre Center, Baylor University, Wesleyan University, and the University of Pennsylvania.</p> <p>Enters died in Tenafly, New Jersey, in 1989.</p> <p>--</p> <p>Bibliography</p> <p>\"Art Critic Dies.\" <span class=\"title\">The Ottawa Journal</span>, June 9, 1961. https://newscomwc.newspapers.com/image/41754360/?terms=%22Angna%20Enters%22%20&pqsid=Dai3zJwDIcY6kXoyLtIh3A%3A1037199%3A1038168176&match=1</p> <p>Dunning, Jennifer. 1989. \"Angna Enters, 82, Dancer, Mime and Artist Known for Characters: [Obituary].\" <span class=\"title\">New York Times</span>, Mar 01. http://ezproxy.nypl.org/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/angna-enters-82-dancer-mime-artist-known/docview/427147056/se-2.</p> <p>Mandel, Dorothy, \"Rediscovering Angna Enters.\" <span class=\"title\">Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies</span> 6, no. 3 (Autumn 1981): 102-105. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3346221.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Angna Enters photographs, dating from the 1920s to 1950s, detail primarily her mime characters, props, costumes, and sets created for the <span class=\"title\">Theater of Angna Enters</span> through proof prints, glass plate negatives, and matted and mounted prints. American photographer Doris Ulmann created the bulk of the photographs and signed the matted prints.</p> <p>The collection is arranged alphabetically by subject or character.</p> <p>Most of the collection consists of proof prints and glass negatives, dating from the 1920s to the 1930s, depicting Enters as her various dance mime characters posing in costume in a studio or the woods. Annotations identify a few pantomime characters; however, most are unknown. Some photographs show Enters' appropriation of the dress, music, and movements of Japanese, French, German, and Spanish cultures. Aside from the costumed character images, there are photographs of Enters' hands performing different gestures and Enters posing with another unidentified artist. Ulmann created the proof prints and glass negatives.</p> <p>The matted and mounted prints, dating from the 1920s to the 1950s, also portray Enters in costume as her dance mime characters. Most of the matted prints were created by Ulmann. Like the glass negatives and proof prints, Ulmann's matted prints date from the 1920s to the 1930s and show Enters as her costumed characters in nature or a studio.</p> <p>The rest of the matted prints and all of the mounted prints were created by Sanford H. Roth, F. J. Monaco, Pollard Crowther, Ben Pinchot, László Willinger, Clarence Bull, Francis Bruguière, and unknown photographers. There are inscriptions or typed information identifying the character, piece, or print owner on the backside of some mounted photographs. These photographs date from the 1920s to the 1950s and portray Enters performing on stage or posing in a studio.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Donated by Mr. and Mrs. Jason Berger, in honor of Mr. Philip Wittenberg, in 1990, 1992, 1996-1998, and at an unknown date.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by <span class=\"name\">Amy Lau</span> in <span class=\"date\">2023</span>.</p>"}
- accessrestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>Access to the physical glass negatives in boxes nine through nineteen is restricted. As a preservation measure, researchers must view the proof prints rather than the glass negatives.</p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>Some collections held by the Dance, Music, Recorded Sound, and Theatre Divisions at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts are held off-site and must be requested in advance. Please check the collection records in the NYPL's online catalog for detailed location information. For general guidance about requesting offsite materials, please consult: https://www.nypl.org/about/locations/lpa/requesting-archival-materials</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Angna Enters papers, (S) *MGZMD 158. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</p>"}
- date_start
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1920
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1920
- date_end
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1959
- date_inclusive_start
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1920
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1959
- extent_statement
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6.62 linear feet (19 boxes)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Angna Enters photographs, *MGZEB 23-0003. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}