Letters to Marion Scott

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3816
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Scott, Marion
date statement
1944-1963
key date
1944
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19654
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Jerome Robbins Dance Division
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*MGZMC-Res. 26
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b12177983
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7
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0
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created
2013-04-01 15:04:52 UTC
updated
2026-06-25 15:07:55 UTC
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{"value"=>"Letters to Marion Scott, *MGZMC-Res. 26. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}
origination
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bioghist
{"value"=>"<p>Chicago-born dancer and choreographer Marion Scott studied with Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Helen Tamiris and Daniel Nagrin, José Limón, Hanya Holm, and Anna Sokolow. She performed in the companies of Graham and Humphrey-Weidman, and was a leading dancer in the Tamiris-Nagrin Dance Company from 1955-1965. She was a teaching assistant to both Humphrey and Tamiris, and, in 1963, was made a Doris Humphrey fellow at Connecticut College. In the late 1940's she began performing her own choreography and for 20 years headed her own company, working with dancers Cliff Keuter and Elina Mooney (Marion Scott Dance Trio) and Don Redlich. She was co-founder of Contemporary Dance Productions, an organization that help provide opportunities to young choreographers to present their work in jointly shared programs. In 1969, Scott, finding her movement severely impaired by hip problems, went to the University of California in Los Angeles where she was Professor of Dance and resident choreographer for the UCLA Dance Company. Hip-replacement surgery forced an end to her active performing. Nevertheless, in 1985, at age 62, she created a solo entitled <span class=\"title\">Psalm 1984,</span>which she performed with the UCLA Dance Company. In 2002 at the Japan America Center, she received the Dance Resource Center's Lestor Horton Lifetime Achievement Award.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p>A collection of personal letters, cards, notes, telegrams, and photographs. With the exception of several photographs from <span class=\"persname\">Miss Scott</span> (Goldberg)'s adolescence, the material reflects her association with the Humphrey-Weidman Company, the 92nd Street YM-YWHA, and the Tamiris-Nagrin Company. Correspondents are <span class=\"persname\">Doris Humphrey</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Helen Tamiris</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Daniel Nagrin</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Charles Weidman</span>, and <span class=\"persname\">Louis Horst</span>.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
acqinfo
{"value"=>"<p>Gift. Marion Scott Rosalsky. Material received: August, 1975.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Permission required.</p>"}
date_inclusive_start
1944
date_inclusive_end
1963
note
{"value"=>"<p>Holographs, signed, telegrams, and photographs</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
{"value"=>"<p>Includes letters, notes, telegrams, and cards from Doris Humphrey, Helen Tamiris, Daniel Nagrin, Charles Weidman, and Louis Horst</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
{"value"=>"<p>Inquire at reference desk for register and folder list</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
keydate
1944
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{"value"=>"English"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by A.M. Wentink.</p>"}
abstract
{"value"=>"Chicago-born dancer and choreographer Marion Scott studied with Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Helen Tamiris and Daniel Nagrin, José Limón, Hanya Holm, and Anna Sokolow. She performed in the companies of Graham and Humphrey-Weidman, and was a leading dancer in the Tamiris-Nagrin Dance Company from 1955-1965. She was a teaching assistant to both Humphrey and Tamiris, and, in 1963, was made a Doris Humphrey fellow at Connecticut College. In the late 1940's she began performing her own choreography and for 20 years headed her own company, working with dancers Cliff Keuter and Elina Mooney (Marion Scott Dance Trio) and Don Redlich. She was co-founder of Contemporary Dance Productions, an organization that help provide opportunities to young choreographers to present their work in jointly shared programs. In 1969, Scott, finding her movement severely impaired by hip problems, went to the University of California in Los Angeles where she was Professor of Dance and resident choreographer for the UCLA Dance Company. Hip-replacement surgery forced an end to her active performing. Nevertheless, in 1985, at age 62, she created a solo entitled <span class=\"title\">Psalm 1984,</span>which she performed with the UCLA Dance Company. In 2002 at the Japan America Center, she received the Dance Resource Center's Lestor Horton Lifetime Achievement Award. A collection of personal letters, cards, notes, telegrams, and photographs. With the exception of several photographs from <span class=\"persname\">Miss Scott</span> (Goldberg)'s adolescence, the material reflects her association with the Humphrey-Weidman Company, the 92nd Street YM-YWHA, and the Tamiris-Nagrin Company. Correspondents are <span class=\"persname\">Doris Humphrey</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Helen Tamiris</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Daniel Nagrin</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Charles Weidman</span>, and <span class=\"persname\">Louis Horst</span>.", "generated"=>true}
extent_statement
75 items
date_start
1944
date_end
1963

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