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{"value"=>"*MGZMC-Res. 11", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19632", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1914-1941", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1914/1941"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Michel Fokine papers"}
- 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"=>"Papers of the choreographer, dancer and teacher, including letters from <span class=\"persname\">Arnold L. Haskell</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Cyril W. Beaumont</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Sara Yancey Belknap</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Alexander Levitoff</span> and others, also essays and articles by <span class=\"persname\">Fokin</span> and others, bookplates, calling cards and miscellaneous items."}
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{"value"=>"Michel Fokine papers, *MGZMC-Res. 11. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Fokine, Michel, 1880-1942", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Mikhail Fokine, Russian dancer, choreographer, teacher, and ballet director, was born in St. Petersburg May 5, 1880. He was trained at the Imperial Theatre School, St. Petersburg where he graduated in 1898. He was a dancer and choreographer at the Maryinsky Theatre and teacher at the Imperial Theatre School. His choreography for the Maryinsky included <span class=\"title\">The Dying Swan</span>for Anna Pavlova and <span class=\"title\">Le Pavillion d'Armide.</span>From 1909-1912, Fokine was chief choreographer for Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev, producing such works as <span class=\"title\">Polovtsian Dances, Les Sylphides, Cléopâtre, Le Carnaval, Sheherazade, Firebird,</span>and <span class=\"title\">Le Spectre de la Rose.</span>Leaving Diaghilev 1n 1912, and eventually Russia, in 1918, he pursued work, mainly in Scandinavia, before settling in New York in 1923. As a free-lance choreographer and dancer, often with his wife Vera Fokina (née Antonova), he worked for the Metropolitan Opera House, Hippodrome, and the Ziegfeld Follies, and in other cities such as Boston and Philadelphia. He continued to recreate his older works and stage new ones in Europe and South America. Founder of the Fokine School in New York City in 1921, he and Fokina had one son, Vitale who became a ballet teacher. Fokine died in New York, August 22, 1942.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Papers of the choreographer, dancer and teacher, including letters from <span class=\"persname\">Arnold L. Haskell</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Cyril W. Beaumont</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Sara Yancey Belknap</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Alexander Levitoff</span> and others, also essays and articles by <span class=\"persname\">Fokin</span> and others, bookplates, calling cards and miscellaneous items.|||Material written in English, Russian and French</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Michel Fokine papers are arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19632#c335719'>I. Letters</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19632#c335723'>II. Essays and Articles by Mikhail Fokin.</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Vitale Fokine. Material received on: June 1963.</p>"}
- note
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{"value"=>"<p>Holographs and typescripts</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
{"value"=>"<p>Papers of the choreographer, dancer and teacher. Includes letters from Arnold L. Haskell, Cyril W. Beaumont, Sara Yancey Belknap, Alexander Levitoff and others, also essays and articles by Fokin and others, bookplates, calling cards, hotel bills, an invitation from Ruth St. Denis, and miscellaneous items</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
{"value"=>"<p>Fokin's essays and articles mention Mary Wigman and Isadora Duncan, the evolving modern dance, and his commentary upon it as well as statements on his ideals in his creations and in the new ballet. Other essays mention Dyagilev and Les Ballets Russes. An anonymous essay mentions Les Ballets Russes at Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, and the influence of Dyagilev and Fokin on the ballet</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
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eng
fre
rus
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{"value"=>"In English, French and Russian"}
{"value"=>"English"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Marion Kahn.</p>"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1914
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1941
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1914
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Approximately 52 items
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1914
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1941