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{"value"=>"1914-1934", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1914/1934"}
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{"value"=>"Irma Duncan Collection of Isadora Duncan materials"}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Jerome Robbins Dance Division.</span><div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center</span> <span class=\"addressline\">40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498</span></div>"}
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{"value"=>"English"}
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{"value"=>"Irma Duncan Collection of Isadora Duncan materials, *MGZMC-Res. 23. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}
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{"value"=>"Duncan, Irma", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Irma Duncan was born Irma Dorette Henriette Ehrich-Grimme on February 26, 1897, in Schleswig-Holstein near Hamburg. Becoming a pupil of Isadora Duncan in January 1905 at her Grunewald school near Berlin, her name was legally changed to Irma Duncan in 1917. Along with Isadora's five other original pupils, she became an adopted daughter.</p> <p>In 1918 these six formed an independent group known as the Isadora Duncan Dancers. Irma's debut as such occurred at Carnegie Hall on June 27 of that year.</p> <p>In 1921 she accompanied Isadora to Russia to found, at the government's invitation, a school of dance. Irma served as a teacher in Moscow for seven years making her solo debut there on April 29, 1923. After Isadora's death in 1927 until 1930, she directed the Moscow school. She toured with her students to Europe and to the United States (the latter during the 1928-1929 and 1929-1930 seasons). When her group, known as the Isadora Duncan Dancers of Moscow, were forced to return to Russia, Irma chose to remain in the United States.</p> <p>Duncan became a U.S. citizen in 1935. She married Sherman S.Rogers, a New York attorney, on September 19, 1935. She authored several books on Isadora Duncan and her technique.</p> <p>Irma Duncan Rogers died on September 20, 1977.</p> <ul class=\"chronlist\"> <div class=\"head\">Isadora Duncan - List of Events</div> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1878? May 27</span> <span class=\"event\">Born in San Francisco</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1896</span> <span class=\"event\">To Chicago. Met Augustin Daly and was engaged to dance in <em>A Midsummer Night's Dream</em>in New York. Danced under Daly for two years in various shows.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1898-99</span> <span class=\"event\">Gave concerts in Carnegie Hall Studio with Ethelbert Nevin, and danced in the drawing-rooms of New York society. Gave three different concerts in Newport, including <em>The [UNK] of Omar Khayyam,</em>September 1898. In April, 1899, danced <em>The Happier Age of Gold,</em>Idylls from Theocritus and [UNK] at the Lyceum Theatre in New York.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1899-1900</span> <span class=\"event\">To London. Danced in private homes and before Queen Victoria, and was admired by artists and intellectuals. <em>Dance Idylls</em>program.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1900-1901</span> <span class=\"event\">To Paris. Gave <em>Dance Idylls</em>program in private salons and studios, again attracting artists, intellectuals, and the social [UNK].</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1902</span> <span class=\"event\">Travelled with the Loie Fuller troupe. Met Alexander [UNK], the impresario, after dancing for artists at the Kunstler Haus in Vienna. Gross arranged her contract to dance 30 evenings in [UNK].</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1903</span> <span class=\"event\">Gave <em>Dance Idylls</em>program at the Théatre Sarah Bernhardt in Paris, June-July. Debut at Kroll Opera House, Berlin. To Greece for winter.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1904</span> <span class=\"event\">Presented <em>The Suppliants</em>(Aeschylus) with a Greek boy's chorus in Vienna and Germany. Spent May-August in Bayreuth where she danced in <em>Tannhauser</em>at the invitation of Frau Cosima Wagner. Opened school in Grunewald with her sister, Elizabeth, and met Gordon Craig in December. Christmas in St. Petersburg.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1905</span> <span class=\"event\">Visited Russia again in February. Gave many concerts in Germany, Belgium, and Holland. Danced Gluck's <em>[UNK].</em></span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1906</span> <span class=\"event\">Toured Germany, Holland, Belgium, and Sweden with Craig and Martin Shaw. Spent summer at Villa [UNK] near Noordwijk, on the Dutch coast. Daughter, Deirdre, born in September. Translated conversations between Craig and Eleonora Duse in Florence, late November, where Craig was designing <em>Rosmersholm.</em>Performances in Warsaw, December-January.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1907</span> <span class=\"event\">Ill with neuralgia January-March. Toured Germany, Holland, and Switzerland. To Russia in December. Friendship with Constantin Stanislavsky.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1908</span> <span class=\"event\">Toured Russia in January and again in the spring. Gave concerts in London and New York under Charles Frohman's management. Late in year appeared in U.S. with Walter Damrosch conducting.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1909</span> <span class=\"event\">Concert series in Paris under the direction of LugnéPoe. [UNK] Paris Singer. Concerts in U.S. with Damrosch in November.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1910</span> <span class=\"event\">Son, Patrick, born May 1.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1911</span> <span class=\"event\">Appeared again in U.S. with Damrosch. Danced [UNK] <em>Orpheus.</em></span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1913</span> <span class=\"event\">Concerts in Paris with Mounet-Sully, the Colonne orchestra and chorus, and [UNK] Pierné. April 19, children drowned in Seine. Joined brother Raymond to help refugees in Epirus, May-June. Lived near Eleonora Duse in Viarregio in the fall.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1914</span> <span class=\"event\">Opened school at Bellevue, near Paris.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1915</span> <span class=\"event\">Improvised La Marseillaise at the Metropolitain Opera House in New York. Gave unsuccessful performances at the Century Theatre.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1916</span> <span class=\"event\">South American tour. Performances in Paris and New York.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1918</span> <span class=\"event\">Met Walter Morse Rummel. Tour of France.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1919</span> <span class=\"event\">[UNK] Festival in Paris. Tour of Switzerland.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1921</span> <span class=\"event\">To Moscow in July to open school at the invitation of the Russian government.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1922</span> <span class=\"event\">Married Serge [UNK] on May 3. Began U.S. tour with sell-out concerts at Carnegie Hall in October. Much of tour cancelled because of her “Bolshevik tendencies.”</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1923-24</span> <span class=\"event\">Performances throughout Russia. Last Russian performance given before the party leaders in September, 1924.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1927</span> <span class=\"event\">Gave last concert, July 8, at the Théatre Mogador in Paris. Killed in accident in Nice, September 14.</span></li></ul>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Holographs, typescripts, clippings, and memorabilia. The materials in this collection are the personal effects of <span class=\"persname\">Isadora Duncan</span> left with <span class=\"persname\">Irma Duncan</span>. The collection is comprised of four major groups of materials: correspondence to and correspondence from <span class=\"persname\">Isadora Duncan</span> (and others), manuscripts relating to, for the most part, the years <span class=\"persname\">Isadora Duncan</span> spent in Russia, 1921-24, a group of clippings, and memorabilia.</p> <p>Letters to <span class=\"persname\">Isadora Duncan</span> are from, among others: <span class=\"persname\">Gordon Craig</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Fernand Divoire</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Eleonora Duse</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Sergei Esenin</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Walter Morse Rummel</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Ellen Terry</span>, and <span class=\"persname\">Anatolii Lunacharskii</span>. Letters from <span class=\"persname\">Isadora Duncan</span> are primarily to <span class=\"persname\">Irma Duncan</span> and <span class=\"persname\">Anatolii Lunacharskii</span>.</p> <p>A large portion of the correspondence and manuscripts in this collection has been published in: *MGYB <span class=\"persname\">(Duncan)</span> <span class=\"persname\">Duncan, Irma</span>. <span class=\"persname\">Duncan Dancer</span>, *MGYB <span class=\"persname\">(Duncan)</span> <span class=\"persname\">Duncan, Irma</span> and <span class=\"persname\">Macdougall</span>. <span class=\"persname\">Isadora Duncan's</span> Russian Days, and *MGYB <span class=\"persname\">(Duncan)</span> <span class=\"persname\">Macdougall. Isadora</span>.</p> <p>In English, French, and Russian.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Irma Duncan Collection of Isadora Duncan materials are arranged in four series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19640#c336082'>I. Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19640#c336160'>II. Manuscripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19640#c336196'>III. Clippipngs</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19640#c336198'>IV. Memorabilia</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<ul class=\"list\"> <li>I. Correspondence <ul class=\"list\"> <li>A. Isadora Duncan Letters</li> <li>B. Letters to Isadora Duncan</li></ul></li> <li>II. Manuscripts <ul class=\"list\"> <li>A. Isadora Duncan Autobiographical Writings</li> <li>B. Isadora Duncan Writings</li> <li>C. Notebooks</li> <li>D. Program-related Materials</li> <li>E. Manuscripts - General</li></ul></li> <li>III. Clippings</li> <li>IV. Memorabilia</li></ul>", "supress_display"=>true}
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift. Irma Duncan Rogers. Materials received: 1957.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by A.M.Wentink.</p>"}
- bibliography
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{"altrender"=>"unnumbered", "value"=>"<span class=\"bibref\">Der [UNK] der Zukunft (The dance of the future) eine vorlesung; ubersetzt and eingeleitet von Karl Federn. Leipzig, E. Diederichs, 1903.</span> <span class=\"bibref\">The Dance of the Future. Authorized edition. [New York, The Bowles-Goldsmith Co., c. 1908]. (Not the same as Tanz der Zukunft.)</span> <span class=\"bibref\">The Dance. Authorized edition. [New York, The Forest Press, 1909].</span> <span class=\"bibref\">[UNK] sur la danse. Manuscrits inédits et textes communiqués par Ch. Dalliès, Fernand Divoire, Mario Meunier, Georges Delaguys, et illustrés de dessins inédits par Antoine Bourdelle, José Clará et [UNK]. Paris, Eds. du Grenier [pref. [UNK]</span> <span class=\"bibref\">My Life. New York, [UNK] and Liveright, 1927.</span> <span class=\"bibref\">The Art of the Dance; edited, with an introduction by Sheldon Cheney. New York, Theatre Arts, 1928.</span>"}
- note
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{"value"=>"This collection is part of a vast gift of materials from Irma Duncan Rogers including manuscripts, photographs, clippings, programs, and memorabilia, now dispersed throughout the Dance Collection"}
{"value"=>"The items are related to the lives and careers of Isadora Duncan and Irma Duncan"}
{"value"=>"Comprised of four major groups of materials: correspondence to and correspondence from Isadora Duncan, manuscripts relating mostly to the years Isadora Duncan spent in Russia, 1921-24, a group of clippings and memorabilia"}
{"value"=>"Letters to Isadora Duncan are from, among others: Gordon Craig, Fernand Divoire, Eleonora Duse, Sergei Esenin, Walter Morse Rummel, Ellen Terry, and Anatoliĭ Lunacharskiĭ. Letters from Isadora Duncan are primarily to Irma Duncan and Anatoliĭ Lunacharskiĭ"}
{"value"=>"Most items have been analyzed. For further details consult register"}
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1914
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1914
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1934
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1914
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1934
- abstract
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{"value"=>" Holographs, typescripts, clippings, and memorabilia. The materials in this collection are the personal effects of <span class=\"persname\">Isadora Duncan</span> left with <span class=\"persname\">Irma Duncan</span>. The collection is comprised of four major groups of materials: correspondence to and correspondence from <span class=\"persname\">Isadora Duncan</span> (and others), manuscripts relating to, for the most part, the years <span class=\"persname\">Isadora Duncan</span> spent in Russia, 1921-24, a group of clippings, and memorabilia.", "generated"=>true}