Eugene Loring papers

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{"value"=>"Eugene Loring papers"}

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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"=>"The <span class=\"persname\">Eugene Loring</span> Papers document several aspects of <span class=\"persname\">Loring's</span> career from 1938 to 1981. He kept extensive notes related to his productions and teaching theories. He also often wrote and spoke about his philosophy of dance, transcripts of which are found in these papers. Being a trained musician, <span class=\"persname\">Loring</span> frequently notated his choreography on musical charts or scores. His teaching records include numerous ballet syllabi on six different levels of technique. <span class=\"persname\">Loring</span> also expressed himself through drawings, poetry, and prose found among his diaries and personal notes."}

prefercite

{"value"=>"Eugene Loring papers, *MGZMD 40. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}

origination

{"value"=>"Loring, Eugene, 1914-", "type"=>"persname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Eugene Loring was born LeRoy Kerpestein in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on August 2, 1911. Loring came to dance through theater. After graduating from high school in 1929, he worked with the Milwaukee Players during which time he began to study ballet and tap dancing. In the spring of 1934, he went to New York to study at the School of American Ballet. That summer, during the school's recess, Loring performed with the Fokine Ballet in Lewisohn Stadium. Loring performed with the American Ballet Company in Balanchine's works in its initial appearance in Hartford, Connecticut in December 1934.</p> <p>Loring's first ballet “Harlequin for President” followed a libretto by Lincoln Kirstein and premiered in a Ballet Caravan performance at Bennington College on July 17, 1936. Loring's other works for Ballet Caravan include his well-known “Billy the Kid,” which premiered in Chicago on October 16, 1938, with Loring dancing the role of Billy.</p> <p>“The Great American Goof” was created by Loring for Ballet Theatre's inaugural performance on January 11, 1940; it was a ballet with words based on a libretto by William Saroyan.</p> <p>Loring worked with his own company Dance Players in 1941 and 1942 and choreographed three new works on the company. After his association with Dance Players, he became steadily involved in motion pictures and television. He was signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios to a contract as dance director and actor and moved to Hollywood in 1943. Loring worked intermittently on Broadway shows in New York over the next decade, however, his work for ballet companies dwindled. He created no major work again until “Capital of the World” in 1953 for Ballet Theatre.</p> <p>Loring's work in film began as a performer in a minor role in “National Velvet” in 1944. He went on to stage the dance sequences in more than a dozen films from 1944 to 1960, including “Ziegfeld Follies,” “Meet Me in Las Vegas,” “Funny Face,” and “Silk Stockings.”</p> <p>His American School of Dance was founded in Hollywood in 1948 and provided a comprehensive program in dance, covering a stylistic range from classical ballet to modern and character dance. It was here that Loring developed his “Freestyle” technique, which attempted to synthesize several forms of movement in order to develop versatile dancers and enable them to adapt to the many styles required of them professionally. Loring sold the school in 1974.</p> <p>In 1965 Loring became the first chairman of the new dance program at the University of California at Irvine. He patterned the program after the one he had developed at the American School of Dance. He retired from the University in 1981 and moved to Accord, New York.</p> <p>Eugene Loring died on August 30, 1982, in Kingston, New York.</p>"}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>The <span class=\"persname\">Eugene Loring</span> Papers document several aspects of <span class=\"persname\">Loring's</span> career from 1938 to 1981. He kept extensive notes related to his productions and teaching theories. He also often wrote and spoke about his philosophy of dance, transcripts of which are found in these papers. Being a trained musician, <span class=\"persname\">Loring</span> frequently notated his choreography on musical charts or scores. His teaching records include numerous ballet syllabi on six different levels of technique. <span class=\"persname\">Loring</span> also expressed himself through drawings, poetry, and prose found among his diaries and personal notes.|||Certain non-manuscript materials received with the original gift have been removed from the <span class=\"persname\">Eugene Loring</span> Papers. All newspaper and magazine articles, programs, photographs, scrapbooks, films, videotapes, audio tapes and musical scores have been dispersed throughout the Dance Collection. A separation list, located at the end of the folder list, indicates the nature and disposition of these items.</p>"}

{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Eugene Loring papers are arranged in seven series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19688#c352636'>I. Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1940-1981</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>72 items</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>“Correspondence, 1940-1981,” the smallest series, contains various cards and letters written to <span class=\"persname\">Loring</span>. There is no substantial run of letters from any single correspondent.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19688#c352660'>II. Writings by Eugene Loring</a></div>\n<div class='series-extent'>167 items</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The writings of <span class=\"persname\">Eugene Loring</span> consists of diaries, personal notes, and addresses, essays, and lectures.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19688#c352694'>III. Production and Choreographic Notes</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The largest series is that of production and choreographic notes and comprises various libretti, musical and choreographic notes, and other descriptive notes on his ballets and lecture-demonstrations. In addition, the scripts of the “Omnibus” and “Dance in America” telecasts are contained in this series. A related series, choreographic notebooks, extensively documents the choreography of two of <span class=\"persname\">Loring's</span> ballets, “Billy the Kid” and “The Great American Goof.”</p> (arranged by title)</div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19688#c352755'>IV. Choreographic Notebooks</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Choreographic notebooks, extensively documents the choreography of two of <span class=\"persname\">Loring's</span> ballets, “Billy the Kid” and “The Great American Goof.”</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19688#c352758'>V. The American School of Dance</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1948-1974</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Two series pertain to <span class=\"persname\">Loring's</span> work as a dance educator. The first, entitled The American School of Dance, 1948-1974, contains extensive syllabi and class descriptions. The second, entitled The University of California at Irvine, 1965-1981, includes some of the same syllabi revised and descriptions of choreography classes and <span class=\"persname\">Loring's</span> system of notation, Kineseography.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19688#c352778'>VI. University of California at Irvine</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1965-1981.</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>51 items</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Two series pertain to <span class=\"persname\">Loring's</span> work as a dance educator. The first, entitled The American School of Dance, 1948-1974, contains extensive syllabi and class descriptions. The second, entitled The University of California at Irvine, 1965-1981, includes some of the same syllabi revised and descriptions of choreography classes and <span class=\"persname\">Loring's</span> system of notation, Kineseography.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19688#c352797'>VII. Miscellaneous</a></div>\n<div class='series-extent'>80 items</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>A small series of miscellaneous manuscripts include several contracts, drawings by <span class=\"persname\">Loring</span>, and drawings and writings by others.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}

arrangement

{"value"=>"<ul> <li>I. Correspondence</li> <li>II. Writings by Eugene Loring</li> <li>III. Production and Choreographic Notes</li> <li>IV. Choreographic Notebooks</li> <li>V. The American School of Dance</li> <li>VI. University of California at Irvine</li> <li>VII. Miscellaneous</li></ul>", "supress_display"=>true}

acqinfo

{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Alan Boehmer. Received: March 1985 (manuscripts) and January 1986 (films, videotapes, music scores, audio tapes).</p>"}

separatedmaterial

{"value"=>"<p>The following material was received with the original gift but has been separated from the manuscript collection. The current location of the material (as of October 1985) is indicated.</p> <ul> <li>Art works <ul> <li>Ink drawing of Loring by Kin Platt - Location: *MGZGB Pla K Lor E</li></ul></li> <li>Audiotapes <ul> <li>Oral history tapes (2) - Location: *MGZT 7-859 & 7-860</li> <li>Music for Loring's ballets (15) - Location: see attached list</li></ul></li> <li>Books and typescripts <ul> <li>Aguado, Oscar. <span class=\"title\">Gravity: The Nether Side of Paradise.</span> - Location: *MGRT 85-1091 no. 1</li> <li>Aguado, Oscar. <span class=\"title\">The Form.</span>(in collaboration with David Samuel Zucker) - Location: *MGRT 85-1091 no. 2</li> <li>Baughman, Diane. <span class=\"title\">Aspects of Oriental Dance: Judo and Aikido in Their Relationship to Dance.</span> - Location: *MGZR Hand-to-hand fighting, Oriental [Clippings]</li> <li>Canna, D.J. and Eugene Loring. <span class=\"title\">Kineseography: The Loring System of Dance Notation.</span> - Location: *MGRN (duplicate)</li> <li>Dance Notation Bureau. <span class=\"title\">The Effort-Shape Training Program of the Dance Notation Bureau.</span> - Location: *MGZ Dance Notation Bureau, New York</li> <li>Hanstein, Penelope. <span class=\"title\">The Construction of a Dramatic Work Based on the Principles of Time and Space as Related to Emotional Gesture.</span> - Location: *MGZR Movement analysis - systems - Effort-shape [Clippings]</li> <li>Tengwall, Roger. <span class=\"title\">The Discoveries of F. Matthias Alexander.</span> - Location: *MGZR Alexander technique [Clippings]</li></ul></li> <li>Clippings and magazine articles (approximately 90) - Location: *MGZR [Clippings file]</li> <li>Films - 16mm (17) and video tapes - various formats (21) - Location: see attached list</li> <li>Music scores (22) - Location: to Music Division see attached list</li> <li>Photographs and contact sheets) (approximately 240 - Location: to photograph files</li> <li>Photographic scrapbooks (6) - Location: *MGZEB files</li> <li>Programs and performance announcements (approximately 50) - Location: *MGZB files</li> <li>Scrapbooks (2) - Location: *MGZRS...</li> <li>Souvenir programs <ul> <li>The American Ballet [193-] - Location: *MGZB (duplicate)</li> <li>Ballet West [1981] - Location: *MGZB</li></ul></li></ul>"}

note

{"value"=>"A. SCORES: MANUSCRIPTS (INCLUDING PHOTOCOPIES, REPRODUCTION, FTC.) Antheil, George. Capital of the world. a) Piano-conductor's score (62 p.) Ms., ink, with pencil corrections. Includes preliminary (?) version of p. 1-3. Pages labelled “Loring” or “Korn”. b) Pencil sketches for Polka and Perpetual motion. Holograph. Labelled: For Eugene. [Choreography: Eugene Loring. Commissioned by WCBS-TV for its Omnibus series, December 1953. First stage performance: Metropolitan Opera House, December 27, 1953, Ballet Theatre.] Allard, Maurice. (?) Folkdances of a mythical country. (1971) Movements I, II, & III. Orchestral score (68 leaves) Photostat. [Ballet. Choreography: Eugene Loring. Music: Maurice Allard, Eugene Loring, and “In a wild sanctuary” by Beaver & Krause (ASCAP) First performance: Irvine, California, Village Theatre, April 21, 1971; produced by the University of California School of Fine Arts and Department of Dance.] Bowles, Paul Frederic. The Yankee clipper. Piano score. Ms. and photostat. various pieces. (Not complete) (“The moon was shining.” 1 p. ms., in pencil. Untitled, 4 p., ms., pencil. “First voyage.” 4 p. ms. 6 “Second voyage.” p. 31-37 (photostat) Untitled, p. 106-108 (photostat) [Ballet. Choreography: Eugene Loring. First performance: Saybrook, Conn., Town Hall, July 12, 1937; Ballet Caravan.] Brant, Henry. City portrait. Ballet. 1939. 2-piano score (40 p.) 4 photocopies. of ins. (a) Loring copy. (b) Arthur Gold's copy. (c) Copy 3. (d) Copy 4 (photostat, negative) piano score (39 p.) photostat. Signed at end: St. Johns, Newfoundland, New York City, July, August, 1959. [Choreography: Eugene Loring. First performance: New York, St. James Theatre, December 28, 1939, Ballet Caravan.] Brant, Henry. Great American goof. Ballet by William Saroyan. Music by Henry Brant. piano score. (a) Bound copy of complete piano score. Ms., ink or pencil, and photostat. (b) Incomplete copy, unbound. Includes variants of some sections. At end: November 20-Dec. 9, 1959, New York City. [Choreography: Eugene Loring. First performance: New York, City Center, January 11, 1940; Ballet Theatre.] Britten, Benjamin. Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge. Britten-McPhee. 2-piano score (77 p.) Photocopy, with pencil notes. (a) Walter Hendl's copy. (b) Arthur Gold's copy. [Used for the ballet Jinx. Choreography: Lew Christensen. Music arranged by Cohn McPhee. First performance: New York, National Theatre, April 24, 1942; Eugene Loring's Dance Players. May also have been the score intended to be used for Eugene Loring's The invisible wife, announced by the Dance Players for their spring 1942 season, but never produced. Copland, Aaron. Billy the Kid. 1938. 2-piano score (63 p.) Photocopy of holograph. 3 copies. (Copy 2 has Fernando Alonso's name and address at top of p. 1. Copy 3 is a xerox of copy 2.) [Ballet. Choreography: Eugene Loring. First performance; Chicago, Opera House, October 16, 1938; Ballet Caravan.] Dello Joio, Norman. The duke of Sacramento. 2-piano score (100 1.) (a) Ms., ink. (b) Photocopy, with pencil annotations. On cover, in ink: To Gene — “The best there is, as friend and collaborator.” Norman. Includes sheet (1 leaf) at end, pencil ms. sketch. [Ballet. Choreography: Eugene Loring. First performance: New Hope, Pennsylvania, October 16, 1942; Eugene Loring's Dance Players.] Dello Joio, Norman. Sinfonietta, arranged for 2 pianos. (a) 2-piano score (47 p.) Holograph (?), ink. (b) 2-piano score (47, 10-11 p.) 4 photocopies. (Copy 1 has choreographic annotations in pencil. Copy 2, Arthur Gold'5 copy. Copy 3, Walter Hendl's copy. Copy 4, pencil annotations for instrumentation.) [Used for the ballet Prairie. Choreography: Eugene Loring. Music: Norman Dello Jojo's Sinfonietta, arranged for 2 pianos by the composer. First performance: Washington, D. C., National Theatre, April 23, 1942; Eugene Loring's Dance Players.] Milhaud, Darius. Moise. Moses. [op. 219] Ballet symphonique. Scenario de Winthrop Bushnell Palmer. Musique de Darius Milhaud. 1940. Reduction pour piano a quatre mains. (a) Holograph ins., ink, of piano, 4 hands, score (23 p.) Signed at end: Milhaud, Oakland (Cal.) 25 aout/7 Sept 1940. (b) Piano, 4 hands, score. Ms., ink. (58 p.) At bottom of p. 1: The Ballet Theatre, 1940. (c) Piano, 4 hands1 score (58 p.) photocop∼ of ms. (b) Stamped at bottom of p. 1: The Ballet Theatre. On cover: Pianist copy. [Intended for Eugene Loring's ballet Man from Midian. Commissioned by Ballet Theatre, but never produced. Announced as a production for the first season of Loring's Dance Players. The ballet was actually produced with a commissioned score by Stefan Wolpe. First performance: Washington, D. C., National Theatre, April 5, 1942, Dance Players.] Ruggles, Carl. Sun-treader. 30 orchestral parts, ms., ink, cut out & pasted on staff paper. Parts for Vln I (4), yin II (3), violas (3), cellos (2), basses (2), bassoon I, contra-bassoon, oboe, clar I in Bb, bass clarinet in Bb, flute I, piccolo, English horn, horns I-Il, trumpet I-II, trombone, bass trombone, percussion, piano/celeste. [Used for the ballet The sisters. Choreography: Eugene Loring. First performance: Lee, Massachusetts, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, July 12, 1966, San Diego Ballet.] Scarlatti, Domenico. Earleguin for president. Music by Scarlatti, arranged for two pianos by Trude Rittmann. (a) 2-piano score (24 p.) Ms. (master) First 24 p. of score only. Includes Overture, 3 p., ms., ink, and photostat (negative) (b) 2-piano score (3, 46 p.) Photocopies in black binders. 3 copies. (One copy is Arthur Gold's copy.) (c) Piano score (various pages, printed and ins.) used by arranger. [Ballet. Choreography by Eugene Loring. First performance: Bennington, Vermont, July 17, 1956, Ballet Caravan.] Ward-Steinman, David. These three. orchestral score (133 p.) photocopy of holograph. On cover: Original score and notes, Eugene Loring ballet, “These three,” premiered 1966, Robert Joffrey, New York City Center Company. On p. [1]: “For Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney, Andy Goodman -- These three.” Signed at end: 30 June-10 Aug 66. Score: 8/29/66. Duration: 28 mm. [Commissioned score for the ballet These three. Choreography: Eugene Loring. First performance: New York, City Center, September 13, 1966; City Center Joffrey Ballet. Story based on the murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi.] Arnell, Richard. Prelude and presto. 1942. piano score (12 p.) Reproduction of ms. On p. 12, in ink: First performance, CBS in New York, June 1942, Vera Brodsky, pianist. Signed at end: New York, June 10th, 1942. [Not known if used by Eugene Loring for one of his ballets.] Kraft, William. Theme and variations, for percussion quartet. 1956. score (25 p.) Reproduction of ms. [Not known if used by Eugene Loring for one of his ballets.] Murray, Edward. Concert march in F major, for piano. c1942. piano score (8 p.) photocopy, with ink corrections, of ms. [Not known if used by Eugene Loring for one of his ballets.] Miscellaneous. Sheet (2 p.) of tunes, including the Internationale. Ms., pencil. B • SCORES: PRINT∼ MUSIC (SOME WITH CHOREOGRAPHIC ANNOTATIONS BY LORING) Barber, Samuel. Souvenirs. (Ballet suite) op. 28. Arranged for one piano by the composer. [New York] G. Schirmer, 1953. Publ. no.: 42918. piano score (3-35 leaves) proof pages, with ink and pencil corrections. (Contents: Waltz, Schottische, Pas de deu.x, Two-step, Hesitation tango, Galop) [Not known if used by Eugene Loring for one of his ballets.] Bartók, Béla. Music for string instruments, percussion and celesta. Boosey & Hawkes, 1964. miniature score (144 p.) [Extensive choreographic notes in pencil throughout. Probably the score used for Eugene Loring's ballet Time unto time, produced April 5, 1980 by the Oakland Ballet.] Copland, Aaron. Symphony for organ and orchestra. Organ part edited and piano reduction of the orchestra by Melville Smith. Boosey & Hawkes, c1962. 62 p. [Choreographic notes, in pencil. Not known if used by Eugene Loring for one of his ballets.] Orff, Carl. Catulli Carmina, ludi scaenici. Mainz, B. Schott's Sohne, 1955. (a) study score (76 p.) With choreographic notes, in pencil. (b) piano-vocal score (75 p.) [c1943] [Produced with choreography by Eugene Loring on April 12, 1969 by the School of Fine Arts at the University of California, Irvine.] Poulenc, Francis. Gloria, for soprano solo, choeur mixte et orchestre. Partition piano et chant. Paris, Editions Salabert, 1960. piano-vocal score (57 p.) With choreographic notes, in pencil. [Performed with choreography by Eugene Loring at the Garden Grove (California) Community Church by the Irvine Master Chorale and the Dance Players, Junior Company of the Los Angeles Dance Theatre, on December 3, 1970.]"}

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1938

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1981

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1938

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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Diane Coburn Brüning.</p>"}

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198 folders in 9 boxes approximately 440 items

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1938

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1981

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1. I. Correspondence [23/1]
2. II. Writings by Eugene Loring [2/1]
3. III. Production and Choreographic Notes [29/1]
4. IV. Choreographic Notebooks [2/1]
5. V. The American School of Dance [19/1]
6. VI. University of California at Irvine [18/1]
7. VII. Miscellaneous [27/1]