Isadora Duncan: reviews and materials relating primarily to her performances in St. Petersburg and Moscow

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2939
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Roslavleva, Natalʹ︠i︡a Petrovna
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1904-1905
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1904
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19659
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Jerome Robbins Dance Division
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*MGZMD 17
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abstract
{"value"=>"Typescript and holograph copies of Russian newspaper and periodical articles, most with English translation. These were obtained by <span class=\"persname\">Natalia Roslavleva</span> for <span class=\"persname\">Francis Steegmuller's</span> use in his research for “Your Isadora”: the love story of <span class=\"persname\">Isadora Duncan</span> and <span class=\"persname\">Gordon Craig</span> (New York, Random House and The New York Public Library, c 1974)."}
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{"value"=>"Isadora Duncan: reviews and materials relating primarily to her performances in St. Petersburg and Moscow, *MGZMD 17. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Natalia Petrovna Roslavleva René was born of an English mother and Russian father in Kiev, Russia, November 22, 1907. A graduate of the University of Moscow, she also studied ballet at the Lunacharsky Choreographic Technicum in Moscow. A leading Soviet dance historian and writer, Roslavleva was a pen name, after a famous Russian ballerina of the 19th century. Her writing on ballet began in the 1940's, writing for <span class=\"title\">Ballet Today</span>and <span class=\"title\">The Dancing Times.</span>She was a contributor for reference books such as the Italian <span class=\"title\">Enciclopedia della Spettacolo</span>and the American <span class=\"title\">Dance Encyclopedia.</span>In Russian, she wrote a history of English ballet entitled <span class=\"title\">Angliiskyi Balet</span>(1959), a book on Maya Plisetskaya (translated into English in 1956), and monographs on Takhomirov and Liepa. Her signature work was <span class=\"title\">Era of the Russian Ballet</span>(English, 1966). In 1968, she received the Prix Docteur Honoris Cause de l'Université de la Danse, Paris, for her <span class=\"title\">Stanislavski and the Ballet,</span>published in <span class=\"title\">Dance Perspective,</span>23, in 1965. At the end of her life, her P<span class=\"title\">rechistenka 20: the Isadora Duncan School in Moscow</span>was published in <span class=\"title\">Dance Perspective,</span>64. She died in Moscow January 3, 1977.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Typescript and holograph copies of Russian newspaper and periodical articles, most with English translation. These were obtained by <span class=\"persname\">Natalia Roslavleva</span> for <span class=\"persname\">Francis Steegmuller's</span> use in his research for “Your Isadora”: the love story of <span class=\"persname\">Isadora Duncan</span> and <span class=\"persname\">Gordon Craig</span> (New York, Random House and The New York Public Library, c 1974).|||Translations by <span class=\"persname\">Norbert Guterman</span>.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift. Gift of Natalia Roslavleva. Material received: 1974.</p>"}
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1904
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1905
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{"value"=>"<p>Typescript and holograph copies of Russian newspaper and periodical articles, most with English translation. These were obtained by Natalia Roslavleva for Francis Steegmuller's use in his research for \"Your Isadora\": the love story of Isadora Duncan and Gordon Craig (New York, Random House and The New York Public Library, c1974)</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
{"value"=>"<p>Newspapers and journals cited include Peterburgskiĭ dnevnik teatrala, Teatr, Rus', Peterburgska︠i︡a gazeta, Novoe vrem︠i︡a, Birzhevye vedomosti, Slovo, Teatral'na︠i︡a Rossi︠i︡a, Russkie vedomosti, Novosti dn︠i︡a, Iskusstvo</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
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322 items 22 folders in 1 mss. box
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1904
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1905

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  1. French translation
  2. Peterburgskaiâ gazeta
  3. “Dunkan” by Nikolaĩ Georgievich.
  4. English translation
  5. Novoe vremiâ
  6. Teatr i muzyka.” 2 l. (xerox)
  7. English translation
  8. Birzhevye vedomosti
  9. “Dunkan” by Valerian Svetlov [Ivchenko]
  10. English translation
  11. Slovo
  12. “Miss Dunkan.”
  13. English translation
  14. Birzhevye vedomosti
  15. “Aĩsadora Dunkan” by S. Rafalovich.
  16. English translation
  17. Slovo
  18. “Aisadora Dunkan.”
  19. English translation
  20. Russkaiâ muzykal'naiâ gazeta, “Tantsovshchitsa Dunkan.” 2 l. (xerox)
  21. English translation
  22. Slovo
  23. Muzyka i plastika” by Aleksandr Benois.
  24. English translation
  25. “Izadora Dunkan” by A. G. Hornfeld.
  26. Excerpt from his book, Knigi i liudi (St. Petersburg, ) Orig. pub.
  27. English translation
  28. Pervye vystupleniiâ A. Dunkan v Moskve. [List of Duncan recitals in Moscow, ] [2] p. on 1 l.
  29. English translation.
  30. Iskusstvo
  31. “Vechera Aisedory Denkan v Moskve,” by Mikh. S.
  32. English translation
  33. “Antique choreography and Miss Duncan” by Valerian Svetlov [Ivchenko]
  34. Excerpt from Terpsichore (St. Petersburg, )
  35. English translation
  36. Rus'
  37. Exchange of letters between Aleksandr Ziloti and Leopol'd Auer on Duncan's Beethoven concert in St. Petersburg.
  38. English translation
  39. Russkie vedomosti
  40. “Teatr i muzyka.”
  41. English translation
  42. Novosti dniâ
  43. “Aĩsedora Dunkan.”
  44. English translation
  45. Novosti dniâ
  46. “Eshche o neĩ” by N. Vil'de.
  47. English translation
  48. Teatral'naiâ Rossiiâ
  49. “Betkhovenskiĩ vecher” by N. Shebuev.
  50. English translation
  51. Teatral'naiâ Rossiiâ
  52. “Baletnaiâ reforma.”
  53. Not translated.
  54. Teatral'naiâ Rossiiâ
  55. “Aĩsedora Dunkan” pt. I-III by “Balletophobe.”
  56. English translation for pt. II only
  57. Teatral'naiâ Rossiiâ
  58. “Shkola novogo i svobodnogo tantŝa,” by Lord Kurbal'ston.
  59. English translation
  60. Birzhevye vedomosti
  61. “Obrashchenie A. Dunkan k publike v teatre Solodovnikova.”
  62. English translation.
  63. Teatr
  64. “First guest appearance of Isadora Duncan in Petersburg.”
  65. English translation
  66. Teatr
  67. “Peterburgskaiâ khronika.”
  68. Not translated.