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{"value"=>"*MGZMC-Res. 19", "type"=>"local_call"}
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{"value"=>"1933-1946", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1933/1946"}
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{"value"=>"Letters to Edward L. Berman"}
- repository
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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>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"A series of personal letters written by <span class=\"persname\">Angna Enters</span>, mime-dancer, choreographer, composer, writer, designer, to an English friend, <span class=\"persname\">Edward L. Berman</span>, over a period of thirteen years, 1933-1946. The letters cover aspects of <span class=\"persname\">Enters'</span> very varied careers and travels and include her political thoughts during the war years."}
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{"value"=>"Letters to Edward L. Berman, *MGZMC-Res. 19. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}
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{"value"=>"Enters, Angna, 1897-1989", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Angna Enters was born on April 18, 1897 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her real name was Anita Enters, which she changed into Angna [ahnjna] in the early 20s. She moved to New York as an art student and began to study dance with Michio Ito in 1920. Soon she was performing in concerts as Michio's partner. In March of 1924 Enters produced her first evening of solo performance. In the following years until 1939 she toured the US and Europe on a permanent basis presenting her program called <span class=\"title\">The Theatre of Angna Enters.</span>After 1939 she continued to give performances until late 1960s.</p> <p>During this period of touring, Enters was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study Greek mime, art and music forms. She exhibited her paintings, as continued to do in following decades, and published her first autobiographical volume, <span class=\"title\">First Person Plural</span>in 1937. In 1939, she published her popular play, <span class=\"title\">Love Possessed Juana,</span>co-written with Louis Kalonyme.</p> <p>Although she continued to perform into advanced age, Enters' stage career declined in the postwar years. She took up residence in California and began to pursue scriptwriting as a profession. Her account of these years, published in <span class=\"title\">Silly Girl</span>in 1944, reached the best seller list. She would go on to publish <span class=\"title\">Among the Daughters</span>(1955),<span class=\"title\">Artist's Life</span>(1958), and <span class=\"title\">On Mime</span>(1965).</p> <p>After Louis Kalonyme's death in June of 1961 Enters accepted an invitation to be an artist-in-residence to the Dallas Theatre Center and Baylor University for the 1961-62 school year. She taught mime there, and spent next school year at the Wesleyan University in Connecticut. The book <span class=\"title\">On Mime</span>was the result of these years.</p> <p>From 1965 to 1968 she lived as a hostess and a travel companion with her life-long friend, retired film producer Albert Lewin, whose wife died in 1965.</p> <p>In 1970-71 school year she was again an artist-in-residence at Pennsylvania State University, during which she gave her last known public performance.</p> <p>In 1974 she suffered a physical collapse and was moved to a nursing home. Angna Enters died on February 25, 1989 in a nursing home in Manhattan.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>A series of personal letters written by <span class=\"persname\">Angna Enters</span>, mime-dancer, choreographer, composer, writer, designer, to an English friend, <span class=\"persname\">Edward L. Berman</span>, over a period of thirteen years, 1933-1946. The letters cover aspects of <span class=\"persname\">Enters'</span> very varied careers and travels and include her political thoughts during the war years.|||Material is in English.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Material received: January, 1954.</p>"}
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1933
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1946
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>See also: Angna Enters papers, (*MGZMD 158), Angna Enters correspondence (*MGZMD 101) and other items cataloged separately in the Jerome robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>American mime-dancer, choreographer, composer, writer, designer</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
{"value"=>"<p>A series of personal letters from Angna Enters to an English friend, Edward L. Berman, over a period of thirteen years, 1933-1946. The letters cover aspects of her very varied careers and travels and include her political thoughts on being involved in wartime activities</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
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1933
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{"value"=>"English"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Nina Abrams.</p>"}
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105 items
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1933
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1946