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{"value"=>"*MGZMD 201", "type"=>"local_call"}
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{"value"=>"1939-1995", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1939/1995"}
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1939
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1995
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1939
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{"value"=>"Dale Harris papers"}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</span> <span class=\"subarea\">Jerome Robbins Dance Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"><span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
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{"value"=>"Dale Harris was a preeminent dance critic who lectured on a wide variety of topics including ballet, cultural history, and opera. The collection consists of correspondence, lectures, articles, photographs, programs, contracts, legal records, notes, and clippings."}
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{"value"=>"Dale Harris papers, *MGZMD 201. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}
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{"value"=>"Harris, Dale, 1928-1996", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p> Stanley Dale Harris, born on November 16, 1928 in the U.K., was a prolific writer and arts lecturer who wrote on a wide variety of subjects including literature, opera, art, and dance history, fostering a reputation as the preeminent dance critic at the <span class=\"title\">Wall Street Journal</span> and a music critic for <span class=\"title\">The Washington Post</span>. A popular lecturer on ballet, cultural history, and opera, Harris lectured for several preeminent cultural institutions, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the San Francisco Opera Guild. An active member of the dance-critic community, he also served as the President of the Dance Critics Association and the General Editor of the <span class=\"title\">Da Capo Dance Reprint Series</span> during the 1980s.</p> <p>Harris received his Doctorate in 1965 and his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1958 after emigrating from his native England. In the 1960s and 1970s, he taught English Literature at Harvard and Stanford University, and later moved on to teach Dance History at New York University and English Literature at Sarah Lawrence College. In the early 1970s, Harris ultimately settled at Cooper Union where he taught Art History and Humanities courses for 21 years. He also held various public lectures at Princeton University, the Smithsonian Institution, the San Francisco Opera Guild, and Christie’s on a number of cultural and art historical topics from the 1970s to the 1990s.</p> <p>In addition to teaching, Harris wrote for numerous magazines, newspapers, and specialized journals. His publications include articles and reviews in <span class=\"title\">Ballet Review</span>, <span class=\"title\">Ballet News</span>, <span class=\"title\">Dancing Times</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Guardian</span>, <span class=\"title\">San Francisco Chronicle</span>, <span class=\"title\">New York Times Book Review</span>, a number of articles for newspapers including the <span class=\"title\">New York Times</span>, the <span class=\"title\">London Observer</span>, he also wrote dance and music entries for the <span class=\"title\">Encyclopedia of Dance and Ballet</span>. Dale Harris worked as an arts critic for several television and radio stations, such as WHRB, the Harvard student radio station. Catalog advertisements for sets of CD's and tapes based on his opera talks, which became best sellers at the Metropolitan Opera, are found in this collection. Harris also wrote a novel <span class=\"title\">Home Fires Burning</span>, which is not present in this collection. Dale Harris died of complications from AIDS on March 14, 1996.</p> <p>Sources: <blockquote> <p>Dunning, Jennifer. “Dale Harris, Arts Lecturer and Critic, 67.” New York Times [New York, N.Y.] March 16,1996, p.49</p></blockquote><blockquote> <p>New York Times (1857-Current file); Mar 18, 1996; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 - 2004), p. B7</p></blockquote></p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p> The Dale Harris Papers consist of correspondence, lectures, articles, reviews, photographs, programs, contracts, legal records, notes, and clippings that document his career as a dance critic and lecturer from the late 1960s through the mid-1990s. The Correspondence series contains not only incoming letters but copies of his responses. This gives a wonderfully detailed look at some aspects of his professional writing career. The Personal Papers series includes programs, itineraries, and photographs from his various worldwide travels.</p> <p>The Professional Papers documents Harris’ work as a contributing writer for <span class=\"title\">Architectural Digest</span> and his time as General Editor for <span class=\"title\">Da Capo’s Dance Reprint Series</span>, as well as his tenured professorships at both Sarah Lawrence College and Cooper Union. The Articles series contains various pieces Harris wrote on prominent dancers, particularly Sergei Diaghilev, Fred Astaire, Anna Pavlova, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Margot Fonteyn. The Subject Files and Clippings series includes information on topics of interest or research value, particularly relating to dance performances of which Harris reviewed or lectured. This collection contains no information about his home and family life.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Dale Harris papers are arranged in seven series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19854#c418937'>Series I: Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1967-1996; undated</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>.5 box</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The majority of the correspondence is of a professional nature, discussing issues relating to conferences, publications, teaching positions, or speaking engagements, though many letters are to people in the field who were friends as well as colleagues and thus offer some personal references within them. Highlights include a letter from Romola Nijinsky and correspondence from David Vaughan. Please note that small amounts of correspondence can also be found in individual files in the Articles, Lectures, or Subject Files series.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19854#c418963'>Series II: Personal Papers</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1966-1995; undated</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>1.5 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series documents Harris' personal life including biographical materials, legal documents, an appointment calendar, travel brochures, and programs relating to seminars or lectures he attended. It also includes invitations to special events and photographs, often of his cultural trips abroad. Some gala invitations and memorabilia can also be found in this series.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19854#c419034'>Series III: General Professional Papers</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1975-1995; undated</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>1 box</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series includes resume material, photographs, meeting minutes, student rosters of classes Harris taught at Cooper Union, material relating to Harris’ time as the General Editor of the <span class=\"title\">DaCapo Dance Reprint series</span>, guides, and material regarding his application for tenure at Sarah Lawrence College. Please note that small amounts of contracts and business materials can also be found in the Articles series.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19854#c419060'>Series IV: Articles</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1969-1995; undated</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>4 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series consists of handwritten, typescript, and published versions of many of Harris’ articles, book reviews, obituaries of major dance figures, along with research materials and notes which document the evolution of the pieces and the ideas motivating their creation. It also contains correspondence from editors regarding his submissions. Some highlights include an interview Harris conducted with Rudolf Nureyev for <span class=\"title\">Dance in America</span>, performance review articles for <span class=\"title\">The New York Times</span>, <span class=\"title\">Ballet Review</span> and <span class=\"title\">Performing Arts</span>, obituaries, unpublished chapter entries for the <span class=\"title\">Concise History of Ballet and Modern Dance</span>, and entries for the <span class=\"title\">Dictionary Catalog of Dance</span>, as well as book reviews.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19854#c419157'>Series V: Lectures</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1963-1995; undated</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>8 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series includes handwritten notes, brochures, and programs relating to seminars or lectures while he was a professor at Sarah Lawrence College, Stanford University, New York University, and as a lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19854#c419278'>Series VI: Dance Subject Files</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1930s-1990s; undated</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>4 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series is comprised of clippings, press releases, promotional materials, and publications collected by Harris for his personal use and reference. The materials are arranged in alphabetical order and focus on subjects or persons of interest to Harris, mainly within the disciplines of dance. He may have compiled the files as research for his own writing and teaching.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19854#c419292'>Series VII: Clippings</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1966-1992; undated</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>1 box</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The clippings are predominantly dance and music reviews. There are also some travel features as well as art reviews.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p> <ul> <li>Series I: Correspondence, 1967-1996; undated</li> <li>Series II: Personal Papers, 1966-1995; undated</li> <li>Series III: General Professional Papers, 1975-1995; undated</li> <li>Series IV: Articles, 1969-1995; undated</li> <li>Series V: Lectures, 1963-1995; undated</li> <li>Series VI: Dance Subject Files, 1930s-1990s; undated</li> <li>Series VII: Clippings, 1966-1992; undated</li></ul></p>", "supress_display"=>true}
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{"value"=>"<p> The Dale Harris Papers were donated to the Jerome Robbins Dance Division in 1997 by the estate of Dale Harris.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Curator, Jerome Robbins Dance Division.</p>"}
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eng
mul
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{"value"=>"This collection contains some materials in russian, french, german, and italian"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Cynthia Tobar; Machine-readable finding aid created by {name}.</p>"}
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8.19 linear feet (20 boxes)
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1939
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1995