- physdesc
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{"format"=>"simple", "value"=>".25 linear ft."}
- unitid
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{"value"=>"JPB 86-15", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"20159", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Katherine Litz collection"}
- repository
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{"value"=>"The New York Public Library, Music Division"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Katherine Litz Collection contains manuscript music and photostats which were used in some of her choreographed dances."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Katherine Litz collection, JPB 86-15. Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Katherine Litz, a modern dancer, teacher and choreographer, was born on July 26, 1912 in Denver, Colorado. While in high school she studied dance with Martha Wilcox at the Perry Mansfield Camp. Upon graduation, she left Denver to pursue her career as a dancer.</p> <p>In New York Litz studied dance with Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman. She also studied composition, ballet, music, acting, and voice. Outside of New York she took courses with Hanya Holm and Martha Graham. Litz performed with the Humphrey-Weidman Concert Company and with Agnes DeMille's concert company. During the 1940s she danced in the Broadway musicals \"Oklahoma!\" and \"Carousel,\" and she also choreographed and danced the leading role in \"Susanna and the Elders,\" a section of Ballet Ballads. In 1960 she had an acting-dancing role in The Crystal Heart, an off-Broadway musical. She worked with Al Carmines on several productions at Judson Memorial Church in New York. Beginning with a concert in 1948, Litz presented programs of her own works, both solos and for groups, in New York and around the country. She was known for her use of satire and humor in dances such as \"The Glyph,\" created with Lou Harrison and first performed at Black Mountain College in 1951. Over the course of many years Litz taught and lectured at colleges and universities, including Bennington College, Columbia University, and Black Mountain College.</p> <p>During her career, Litz was the recipient of grants from several organizations, including the Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Lena Robbins Foundation.</p> <p>In 1947, Litz married the American artist and set designer Charles Oscar. They eventually separated. Katherine Litz died in New York City on December 19, 1978, three weeks after her last performance.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>This collection contains manuscript music used and annotated by Katherine Litz.</p>"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection is organized in a single series.</p> <p>Arrangement is generally chronological</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>The Katherine Litz Collection was a gift from her estate.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>The Katherine Litz Collection was separated from The Katherine Litz Papers which reside in the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The classmark is: *MGZMD 65.</p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>For permission to copy or publish please contact the Music Division.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Another portion of the estate of Katherine Litz is The Katherine Litz Collection at the Harvard Theatre Collection, Special Collections, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.</p>"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"ca. 1945-1952", "type"=>"inclusive", "certainty"=>"approximate", "normal"=>"1945/1952"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1945
- date_inclusive_end
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1952
- origination
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{"value"=>"Litz, Katherine, d. 1978", "type"=>"persname"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>Transferred from the Dance Collection to the Music Division, The New York Public Library, Nov. 8, 1979.</p>"}
- keydate
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1945
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by ; machine-readable finding aid created by Robert Kosovsky.</p>"}
- date_start
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1945
- date_end
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1952