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{"value"=>"*MGZEB 10-5367", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"22113", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"1936-1986", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1936/1986"}
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{"value"=>"Antony Tudor and Hugh Laing photographs"}
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"9.31 linear feet (14 boxes)"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Jerome Robbins Dance Division.</span><div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center</span> <span class=\"addressline\">40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Antony Tudor and Hugh Laing Photographs consists of over 1500 prints, slides, and negatives documenting the careers and personal lives of Antony Tudor and Hugh Laing. Photographs depict works choreographed and/or danced by Antony Tudor. Photographs also depict works danced by Hugh Laing. Finally, the collection documents portions of their personal lives. Included are images of Laing with Diana Adams, Tudor and Laing's friends, families, and colleagues."}
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{"value"=>"Materials in English"}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>Antony Tudor and Hugh Laing photographs, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Tudor, Antony and Laing, Hugh", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Antony Tudor, born William Cook in 1908, was a British dancer, teacher, and choreographer influential in modern ballet. Tudor studied with Marie Rambert at her Ballet Club and became a dancer and later a choreographer for the company. In 1938, Tudor co-founded the London Ballet and in 1939 he moved to the United States to work with the Ballet Theatre, later American Ballet Theatre. Although Tudor retired from dancing in 1950, he continued to choreograph and teach for institutions such the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School, Juilliard School, and the Royal Swedish Ballet. In 1986, Tudor was a Kennedy Center Honoree.</p> <p>Tudor is known for works including: <em render=\"italic\">Jardin aux Lilas</em> (<em render=\"italic\">Lilac Garden</em>), <em render=\"italic\">Dark Elegies, Echoing of Trumpets, Gala Performance, Pillar of Fire, Shadowplay</em>, and <em render=\"italic\">Undertow</em>. Tudor often worked with his long-time partner, the dancer Hugh Laing. Tudor died April 19, 1987.</p> <p>Hugh Laing, born Hugh Skinner in Barbados, was a British ballet dancer. He met Antony Tudor while studying at Marie Rambert's Ballet Club. Laing was a member of Tudor's London Ballet. He traveled to the United States with Tudor and eventually worked with Ballet Theatre and the New York City Ballet. During his career, Laing danced numerous roles created for him by Tudor as well as choreographies by Jerome Robbins and George Balanchine. In 1954, Laing performed the role of Harry Beaton in the film version of <em render=\"italic\">Brigadoon</em>. Laing married the dancer Diana Adams in 1947; they were divorced in 1953. Laing died May 10, 1988.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Antony Tudor and Hugh Laing Photographs document the career and personal lives of Antony Tudor and Hugh Laing. Tudor and Laing worked together and separately in the dance world for decades. The collection contains a significant number of professional photographs of dance works related to the two men as dancers and to Tudor's work as choreographer, including <em render=\"italic\">Day Before Spring, Dark Elegies, Dim Lustre, Gala Performance, Jardin aux Lilas</em>/<em render=\"italic\">Lilac Garden, Pillar of Fire</em>, and <em render=\"italic\">Undertow</em>. The collection includes professional and non-professional photographs of each of the men onstage, backstage, and outside the dance world, including personal photographs of Hugh Laing and Diana Adams taken on vacation and on tour. In addition, there are several professional and amateur photographs of dancers, friends, and colleagues of Tudor and Laing.</p> <p>The collection contains a number of slides which chiefly relate to trips to Barbados in and around 1959. One group of slides, however, appears to document the costumes of the 1948 ballet <em render=\"italic\">Shadow of the Wind</em>.</p> <p>Most of the collection's negatives remain in their original glassine wrappers and have been listed alphabetically. One group of negatives has been rehoused; it correlates to contact sheets within the collection depicting artworks, people and horses.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Antony Tudor and Hugh Laing photographs are arranged in four series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/22113#c816973'>Series I: Prints</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains photographic prints from the collection. Prints primarily exist as 4x6, 5x7, and 8x10 sizes. Larger images may be found in Series IV: Oversized.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/22113#c817102'>Series II: Slides</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1948, 1959</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>While a small group of color slides document costumes for what appears to be the 1948 production of \"Shadow of the Wind,\" this series chiefly contains slides taken on tour or vacations. Several contain images of Tudor, Laing, and Adams. Many were taken in Barbados around 1959.</p> <p>Photographers uncredited.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/22113#c817113'>Series III: Negatives</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series consists primarily of negative strips housed in glassine envelopes, although there are also rolls of negatives. An alphabetical list has been created based on the labels of the glassine envelopes, but the series remains underprocessed. A limited number of negative strips have been rehoused; these correlate to contact sheets depicting artworks, people and horses in Series I: Prints -Subseries III: Unidentified.</p> <p>Photographers not credited.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/22113#c817124'>Series IV: Oversized</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains prints larger than 8x10 inches. Images depict several choreographic works including <em render=\"italic\">Dark Elegies, Echoing of Trumpets / Ekon Av Trumpeter</em>, and <em render=\"italic\">Pillar of Fire</em>, as well as portraits of Antony Tudor, Hugh Laing, and Nora Kaye. There are also several unidentified prints.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Donated by Isabel Brown, January 2001.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Processed by Whitney E. Berman, Special Formats Processing, November 2010.</p>"}
- note
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{"value"=>"Choreographic works by Tudor represented in the collection include: Continuo, Dark elegies, Day before spring, Dear departed, Descent of Hebe, Dim lustre, Ekon av trumpeter [Echoing of trumpets], Gala performance, Jardin aux lilas [Lilac garden], Judgment of Paris, Leaves are fading, Lysistrata, Offenbach in the underworld, Pillar of fire, Romeo and Juliet, Shadow of the wind, Shadowplay, Sunflowers, and Undertow"}
{"value"=>"Dance companies represented in the collection include: American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Rambert, Ballet Theatre, Jacob's Pillow, Juilliard, National Ballet of Canada, New York City Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, and Royal Swedish Ballet"}
{"value"=>"Photographers represented in the collection include: Hugh Laing, Fred Fehl, N. Alovert, Ken Bell, Marcus Blechman, Alejandro Castro, Anthony Crickmay, J. W. Debenham, Gene Draper, Malcolm Dunbar, Group Three Photography, Sven Hakansson, Y. Hayata, Annemarie Heinrich, John R. Johnsen, G. Maillard Kesslere, Sedge LeBlang, John Lindquist, Maremichi Matsui, Louis Melancon, Jack Mitchell, Wilson Millar, Andrew Oxenham, Walter E. Owen, Will Rapport, Houston Rogers, Enar Merkel Rydberg, Richard Sasso, Donald Southern, Joseph Szaszfai, Richard Tucker, Alfredo Valente, John Van Lund, Carl Van Vechten, Reg Wilson, W. H. Grove & Son, C. Hatjiconstintinou, and others"}
- date_start
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1936
- keydate
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1936
- date_end
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1986
- date_inclusive_start
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1936
- date_inclusive_end
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1986
- extent_statement
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9.31 linear feet (14 boxes)