- unitid
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{"value"=>"19830", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"*MGZMD 132", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1972-1978", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1972/1978"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Grand Union records"}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Jerome Robbins Dance Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Grand Union, a performing arts collective, was active between 1970 and 1976. This collection includes office files, press materials, photographs, and information on the performances and performers of the group, especially Yvonne Rainer."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Grand Union (Performance group)", "type"=>"corpname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>The Grand Union, also know as the Rio Grand Union, came into being in the fall of 1970. A collective of friends, choreographers, and performers, its early members included Trisha Brown, Douglas Dunn, Nancy Green, Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton, David Gordon and Barbara Lloyd. The collective dissolved in May 1976 and became the New Grand Union. The members of the New Grand Union were Barbara Dilley, Douglas Dunn, David Gordon, Nancy Lewis and Steve Paxton. The New Grand Union stopped soliciting dates for ensemble performance, but continued to produce and seek sponsorship for its members separately. Performing Artservices, which managed the Grand Union during the early 1970's, donated this collection in 1993. All of the work was improvised in performance, the feeling being that the familiarity and confidence established in previous performances and shared history provided a solid ground for spontaneous behavior and inspiration in performance. An ongoing, constantly changing approach to work resulted in no two performances being alike. Sometimes the evening seemed to be about fun and games; sometimes it was solemn and highly symbolic. Sometimes it was hard to characterize. In this respect the Grand Union seemed to be more about process, involvement, and transition than any fixed view of art and theater.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>This collection is divided into five series: Office files, Press materials, Performers, Performances, and Photographs. It includes press information, photographs, programs, and correspondence concerning engagements of the Grand Union, ca. 1970-1976. It also includes correspondence, financial records, and photocopies of photographs borrowed by Margaret Hupp Ramsay for her 1986 thesis entitled The Grand Union (1970-1976) : an improvisational performance group, published in 1991. The majority of the correspondence is between Performing Artservices and the members of Grand Union about upcoming engagements and other administrative issues. Included in the press materials are program notes, mission statements, observations from Grand Union members and critics, reviews, programs, and flyers. Of particular interest are the transcript and other materials from Grand Union talks to critics, an October 1974 meeting between Robb Baker, Carolyn Brown, Kathy Duncan, John Howell, James Klosty, Deborah Jowitt, Andy Mann, Robert Pierce, Sara Rudner, Valda Setterfield and Marcia Seigel and Grand Union members Trisha Brown, Barbara Dilley, Douglas Dunn, David Gordon and Nancy Lewis. More than half of the collection concerns the performers and performances of the members of the Grand Union and includes information on engagements, reviews, grant applications, correspondence and press materials. Yvonne Rainer, with eight folders, is the most represented of the performers; included is her fellowship application for a film project in 1974-1975. Of interest in the materials pertaining to performances and teaching residencies is the Dance Gallery Festival in April/May, 1973, in which the Grand Union mainly performed, but other artists were also invited to present their works at the festival. Other Festival materials include schedules, budgets, correspondence about technical and production needs, and a final grant report that explains the successes and difficulties of this endeavor. Also of interest are the scripts that exist for some of the engagements.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Grand Union records are arranged in five series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19830#c404424'>Office files</a></div>\n<div class='series-extent'>3 folders</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p> Correspondences and financial records related to administrative needs and potential engagements, arranged alphabetically and chronologically within each folder.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19830#c404428'>Press Materials</a></div>\n<div class='series-extent'>14 folders</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p> Reviews, articles, biographies, press releases, arranged chronologically within each folder. Multiple reviews from a single publication are filed under the publication's name.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19830#c404443'>Performers</a></div>\n<div class='series-extent'>11 folders</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Individual folders on the performers are filed alphabetically and arranged chronologically within each folder.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19830#c404455'>Performances</a></div>\n<div class='series-extent'>22 folders</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Arranged alphabetically by performance venue and arranged chronologically within each folder.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19830#c404478'>Photographs</a></div>\n<div class='series-extent'>4 folders</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Performances and performers documented in photographs and contact sheets.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The Grand Union Records are organized in the following series:</p> Series I: Office files Series II: Press Materials Series III: Performers Series IV: Performances Series V: Photographs", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>The Grand Union Records were donated to the Jerome Robbins Dance Division in 1993 by Performing Artservices, New York, N.Y.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Laura Raucher and Charles Perrier.</p>"}
- accessrestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>Stored OFFSITE.</p>"}
- date_start
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1972
- keydate
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1972
- date_end
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1978
- date_bulk_start
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1972
- date_bulk_end
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1978
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Grand Union records, *MGZMD 132. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}