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{"value"=>"Eleanor King letters to Grace Stevenson"}
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{"value"=>"The <span class=\"corpname\">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"=>"Eleanor King letters to Grace Stevenson, *MGZMD 87. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}
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{"value"=>"King, Eleanor, 1906-1991", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Eleanor King was born in Middletown, Pennsylvania in 1906. After studying locally with Clair Tree Major, she moved to New York to work with Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman at their studio. She also received training in mime with Etienne Decroux, and in Oriental dance forms of Japan, Sri Lanka, and Bali.</p> <p>King created roles in many of the early work of Humphrey and Weidman. Her performances for Weidman were in the premieres of <span class=\"emph\">The Conspirator</span>(1930) and <span class=\"emph\">The Happy Hypocrite</span>(1930); roles created for Humphrey included <span class=\"emph\">Water Study</span>(1929), <span class=\"emph\">Life of the Bee</span>(1929), <span class=\"emph\">The Shakers</span>(1932), <span class=\"emph\">The Pleasures of Counterpoint</span>(1932), and <span class=\"emph\">Suite in F</span>(1933).</p> <p>Eleanor King began to choreograph in The Little Company, a group consisting of herself, Ernestine Henoch (Stodelle), Letitia Ide, and José Limon. Her first solo credits came from another small company of concert dancers, the Theatre Dance Group, which included dancers Fé Alf, George Bockman, Sybil Shearer, and William Bales. She then worked extensively touring the United States and Canada as a concert dancer and with a company of her own based in Seattle, Washington. Her first large work was <span class=\"emph\">Icaro,</span>with poetry of Lauro de Bosis and music by David Diamond and Franczeska Boas, which premiered at the Brooklyn Museum Dance Center in May, 1937.</p> <p>In 1955, King became associate professor in the Department of Speech and Dramatic Arts at the University of Arkansas, teaching dance and mime, and also choreographing for the Theatre of the Imagination. She took a sabbatical (1960-1961) to study dance in Japan, where she also lectured.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift. Grace Stevenson. Received: December 8, 1992.</p>"}
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1942
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1984
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{"value"=>"<p>Eleanor King (1906-1991) writes to her longtime friend about her travels and professional activities.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
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1942
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{"value"=>"English"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Henley Haslam.</p>"}
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{"value"=>" Eleanor King (1906-1991) writes to her longtime friend about her travels and professional activities.", "generated"=>true}
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1 document box 29 items in 9 folders
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1942
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1984