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{"value"=>"*MGZMD 158", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19796", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"1920-1989", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1920/1989"}
{"value"=>"ca. 1930-1973", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1930/1973", "certainty"=>"approximate"}
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{"value"=>"Angna Enters papers"}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. <span class=\"subarea\">Jerome Robbins Dance Division.</span></span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Angna Enters was a dancer and mime, a painter and writer. She developed nearly 300 separate characters for her touring <span class=\"title\">Theater of Angna Enters</span> from 1928-1960. She was a well-known artist and sculptor. Enters designed and executed all the costumes and props for her performances, and she illustrated several of the books she wrote on her life and work.She died in 1989."}
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{"value"=>"Angna Enters papers, *MGZMD 158. 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 Anita Enters, April 18, 1897 to Edward W. Enters and Henriette Gasseur-Styleau, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 1924, she changed her name to Angna and began using 1907 as her birth year.</p> <p>Enters graduated from North Division High School in Milwaukee, in 1915. That same year, she saw the first Denishawn concert tour, and in 1916, the first American tour of Diaghilev’s Les Ballets Russes. In June of 1916, Enters enrolled in Milwaukee State Normal School, a school that “intended to train teachers of drawing, design, and the manual art; to develop the appreciation and practice of the fine arts; and to create skilled workers in the applied arts.” Her special area was design, including commercial design, illustration, lettering and interior decoration.</p> <p>Angna Enters registered for the Art Students League in October 1919. Taking a nightly illustration course, she worked in an advertising agency during the day. A friend from Milwaukee introduced her to Michio Ito. By the spring of 1920, she had abandoned the Art Students League, but continued working as a commercial artist and studying with Ito, a student of the Dalcroze-Eurythmics method.</p> <p>In 1921 she met journalist Louis Kantor. The two were re-introduced in 1924 and began a secretive dating relationship, which led to a secret marriage in Spain in 1936. They kept separate living spaces and traveled separately in Europe. individual… <blockquote> <p>“To create the illusion of a staff and to provide a disinterested persona between Enters and the world, she and Kalonyme invented a secretary to whom they gave her mother’s maiden name, Henriette Stylow. This device enabled Kalonyme to deal with Enters’ business correspondence when she was unavailable without revealing his presence in her affairs. “Henriette Stylow” was also used as an accommodation addressee for the constant exchange of letters between Enters and Kalonyme when either was out of the city…The reason why they never lived openly as a married couple in the United States may never be entirely clear…both Enters and Kalonyme had reputations of being extremely shy and reserved, and each had created a public persona to protect the private</p></blockquote> Not until Kalonyme’s final illness in 1961, however, did he allow Enters to be recognized as his wife.</p> <p>Kantor changed his name to Louis Kalonyme in 1924 and began writing critically about art for <span class=\"title\">Arts and Decoration</span> magazine. Kalonyme was friends with many independent thinkers of the day: Eugene O’Neill, George Bernard Shaw, and Georgia O’Keefe to name just a few. The couple did not have any children and Kalonyme died in 1961 after a long illness.</p> <p>In 1924 Enters produced her first solo performance. From 1924 until 1939, she toured both the United States and Europe with her program, <span class=\"title\">The Theater of Angna Enters.</span> “She was probably the first, and certainly one of the very few, of her generation of American dancers to make a career exclusively on the concert stage.” After 1939 her constant touring schedule subsided, but she continued to perform through the 1960s.</p> <p>Enters was a prolific artist. Many of her sketches and paintings were exhibited in the United States and Europe, sometimes the exhibitions coordinated with the weeks of her performances. Her sketches were often costume designs for characters of her mime performances, as well as set designs for plays.</p> <p>Enters authored many books, including her fictionalized autobiography series: <span class=\"title\">First Person Plural</span>(1937), <span class=\"title\">Silly Girl; A portrait of personal remembrance</span> (1944), and <span class=\"title\">An Artists Life</span> (1958). In 1939 she co-authored with Louis Kalonyme a play: <span class=\"title\">Love Possessed Juana</span>(1939). Houghton Mifflin rejected Enters’ original title for her fourth book, <span class=\"title\">A Thing of Beauty</span>, when the company decided not to publish for fear of the story being banned. Coward McCann published the book intact under the new title, <span class=\"title\">Among the Daughters: a novel</span> in 1955. <span class=\"title\">On Mime</span> (1966) was about her method, practice and teaching of mime. The New York Times review put it this way, “a spontaneous, highly individual and persuasive reflection of her art and artistry.” All five books included illustrations from Enters’ sketches and paintings.</p> <p>Enters teaching career began as an instructor at the Stella Adler School beginning in 1957 and ending in 1960. After her husband’s death in 1961, she accepted an invitation to be an artist-in-residence at the Dallas Theatre Center. While there she taught classes on mime at Baylor University. The following school year, 1962-1963, Enters taught at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. The material from these courses was compiled to create her book <span class=\"title\">On Mime</span>. She was again an artist-in-residence during the 1970-71 school year at the University of Pennsylvania. Her last know public performance was given there.</p> <p>From 1976 until her death in February 1989, Angna Enters had lived in several nursing homes in the New York metropolitan area.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Angna Enters papers span the years 1920-1973 and consist of correspondence, writings, personal papers, music, clippings and artwork. The collection is important in its documentation of the development of a new dance form titled dance-mime. Enters created over 300 characters in her Theater of Angna Enters. She was a prolific author, writing five books, several scripts for radio, theater and motion pictures, numerous articles for magazines and newspapers and translated with her husband, Louis Kalonyme, Rostrand’s <span class=\"title\">Chantecler</span>. Enters was also an artist; painting, sketching and sculpting. Much of her work was incorporated into her dance-mime (costume and set designs) and her writings (illustrations in her books). Some of her work was shown and sold at galleries throughout the United States and Europe.</p> <p>The collection includes extensive personal journals and notebooks that chronicle her thoughts and reflections of every aspect of the world around her. The subjects are wide-ranging, from political and economic, to romantic and familial. Also included are thoughts about her work, including characters and story ideas.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Angna Enters papers are arranged in seven series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19796#c389376'>Series I: Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-extent'>5 Boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series consists of correspondence between Enters and colleagues and friends. A large portion of the correspondence concerns the sale of her house in Santa Monica and the subsequent lawsuit (1971-1972). There are also letters from Helen Hungerford, Ruth Page (Fisher), Helen Hayes, Selma Jean Cohen, and Meredith Willson.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19796#c389453'>Series II: Writings</a></div>\n<div class='series-extent'>54 Boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains both published and unpublished writings. There are handwritten notebooks and journals. Also included are handwritten and typed drafts of all her books, and published articles, speeches, and scripts. The majority of the published writings are by Enters. There is also a section written by Louis Kalonyme. Also included are some writings by other authors.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19796#c389959'>Series III: Personal Papers</a></div>\n<div class='series-extent'>30 Boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains financial papers, contracts, travel information, programs, teaching notes, a voluminous postcard collection and address books.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19796#c390260'>Series IV: Photographs</a></div>\n<div class='series-extent'>9 Boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains photographs, negatives and slides. Some of the photographs are of Enters from her childhood. There are also extensive photographs of A. Enters in costumes for performances, with some candid performance snapshots. Few of the photographs are labeled with names or dates. Also included is a glass plate negative of Enters in performance.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19796#c390495'>Series V: Music</a></div>\n<div class='series-extent'>26 Boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains music that was used by Enters in her dance mime performances. There are two sub-series. The first sub-series is music that A. Enters arranged herself. The second sub-series is published sheet music.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19796#c390895'>Series VI: Clippings</a></div>\n<div class='series-extent'>9 Boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series reviews of Enters performances, and gallery openings. Enters subscribed to three separate clipping services. There are also clippings of political events of the times, i.e. WWII. Several boxes contain magazines with articles written by Louis Kalonyme.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19796#c391003'>Series VII: Oversized Materials</a></div>\n<div class='series-extent'>17 Boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains scrapbooks, sketchbooks, photographs, artwork and posters from performances. The scrapbooks contain clippings. The sketchbooks include costume designs, set designs, and landscapes. There are posters of Angna Enters performances. These are very fragile and should be handled with extreme care. There are also several boxes of loose sketches, and paintings.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p> <ul> <li>Series I: Correspondence</li> <li>Series II: Writings <ul> <li>Sub-series 1 - Notebooks</li> <li>Sub-series 2 - Journals</li> <li>Sub-series 3 - Published writings</li></ul></li> <li>Series III: Personal Papers <ul> <li>Sub-series 1 - Financial Papers</li> <li>Sub-series 2 - Class Notes/Teachings</li> <li>Sub-series 3 - Travel</li> <li>Sub-series 4 - Contracts</li> <li>Sub-series 5 - Programs</li> <li>Sub-series 6 - Sketchbooks and Artwork</li> <li>Sub-series 7 - Address Books/Rolodex</li> <li>Sub-series 8 - Postcard Collection</li> <li>Sub-series 9 - Subject File</li></ul></li> <li>Series IV: Photographs</li> <li>Series V: Music <ul> <li>Sub-series 1 - Arranged by A. Enters</li> <li>Sub-series 2 - Sheet Music and Music Books</li></ul></li> <li>Series VI: Clippings</li> <li>Series VII: Oversized Material</li></ul></p>", "supress_display"=>true}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Angna Enters Papers were donated to the Jerome Robbins Dance Division in 1979 by Mr. and Mrs. Jason Berger.</p> <p>Untitled Christmas card paintings in box 82 folder 7 were donated from University of Louisville Art Library.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p> <ul> <li>Artwork, <span class=\"title\">The Theatre of Angna Enters</span>, 24” x 32”</li> <li>Artwork, <span class=\"title\">The Theatre of Angna Enters</span>, 24” x 32”</li> <li>Artwork, <span class=\"title\">The Theatre of Angna Enters</span>, 26” x 30”</li> <li>Costume Jewelry for <span class=\"title\">Odalisque</span></li> <li>undated Performance poster, undated (EXTREMLY FRAGILE. Do Not Open)</li> <li>Kodachrome super 8</li> <li>Spalding’s Athletic Library. <span class=\"title\">The Art of Fencing</span> by Regis and Louis Senac FRAGILE</li> <li>Japanese language book</li> <li>Trubner’s Language Manuals. <span class=\"title\">A Modern Greek Manual for self-tuition</span></li> <li> <span class=\"title\">Griechische Streng-Rotfigurige Vasen-Malerei</span> by von H. Eckstein</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">Journal Parisien</span> by L. Clark Keating and William G Clubb</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">Piero Della Francesca</span> by Piccola Silvana</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">Red Cross Home Nursing</span>. The American Red Cross</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">Works of Art of the Calouste Gulben Kian Collection</span></li> <li> <span class=\"title\">William Shakespeare. Some dates, facts and inferences</span></li> <li> <span class=\"title\">Folk Song of Old Vincennes</span>edited by Cecilia Ray Berry</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">De Beranger</span>by Chansons</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">The Observer’s Book of Music</span> by Freda Dinn</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">Fresques Romanes de France</span>by L. Brion-Guerry</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">Constitution (fundamental law) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic</span></li> <li> <span class=\"title\">English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians</span>by Dame Olive Campbell and Cecil J. Sharp</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">The Tragedy of Marcus Brutus</span> by Kenneth Mondshein</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">C. Lagourgue’s course of Solfege</span></li> <li> <span class=\"title\">The History of Music in Sound. Vo. III. Ars Nova and the Renaissance</span> edited by Dom Anselm Hughes</li> <li> <span class=\"title\"> Sculptures Romanes Toulouse</span></li> <li> <span class=\"title\">Der KunNlerifdhe Tanz unferer Zeif</span>by Die Blauen Budher</li></ul></p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Curator, Jerome Robbins Dance Division.</p>"}
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1920
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1989
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{"value"=>"<p>See also: Angna Enters correspondence (*MGZMD 101), Angna Enters letters to Edward L. Berman (*MGZMC-Res 19) 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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1920
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{"value"=>"English"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Leslie Reyman; Machine-readable finding aid created by Leslie Reyman.</p>"}
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158 boxes
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1920
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1989
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1930
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1973