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{"value"=>"1927-2004", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1927/2004"}
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{"value"=>"Popular Balanchine dossiers"}
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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>"}
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{"value"=>"Popular Balanchine Dossiers document the Paris and London revues, Broadway work, and London and Hollywood films choreographed by George Balanchine, 1929-1954. This collection includes research by 20 principal researchers and includes binders with some original but mostly photocopied artifacts for the many titles, interviews with participants, and some scripts and music."}
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{"value"=>"Popular Balanchine dossiers, *MGZMD 146. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}
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{"value"=>"George Balanchine Foundation", "type"=>"corpname"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Popular Balanchine was designed to document the works choreographed by George Balanchine for the popular stage and the movie screen. From 1927 to 1931, Balanchine staged dances and musical numbers for revues, variety shows, and operettas in London and Paris as well as creating choreography for <span class=\"title\">Dark Red Roses</span>, among one of the earliest feature-length talking motion pictures made in England. In the United States, from 1936 to 1954, he worked with Vernon Duke, John Murray Anderson, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, George Abbott, George Gershwin, Joshua Logan, Frederick Loewe, Irving Berlin, John Latouche, Felix Brentano, Alan Jay Lerner, Frank Loesser, and Harold Arlen - leading figures of American musical theater - to create two revues, fourteen musical comedies, four operettas, and five Hollywood films that are among the milestones of American popular culture. He also collaborated with Igor Stravinsky on the famous <span class=\"title\">Ballet of the Elephants</span>for Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus.</p> <p>Of Balanchine’s enormous choreographic output, these popular works have received far less critical and scholarly attention than have his ballets, but we recognize today that they are an important part of his oeuvre and that they are, indeed, significant works in terms of America’s cultural heritage.</p> <p>To preserve what is possible of this heritage, the George Balanchine Foundation undertook a major research initiative in 1999, realizing that it was time to focus on Balanchine’s popular works, while some of the people involved with these productions - onstage, backstage, and in the audience - were still alive. Nancy Reynolds, director of research for the foundation, originated the project and engaged Claude Conyers as project director. The mandate given him was to establish and supervise a team of dance and theater historians to research, assemble, and organize a collection of primary source materials on Mr. Balanchine’s popular work. The results of this effort, conducted over a period of five years, constitute a unique collection of documents, printed materials, photographs, memorabilia, audio and video recordings, and transcripts of interviews with participants in a major period in the history of American musical theater.</p> <p>Summary of Research Methods</p> <p>Popular Balanchine was directed by Claude Conyers, a former publishing executive, who functioned as chief administrator of the project as well as director of research. Since the project covered a diverse body of material and required particular skill in doing original research, he was able to model it on similar projects in scholarly and professional reference publishing, adapting systems and procedures used in the development and production of large-scale historical dictionaries and encyclopedias to the documentation of popular theatrical works.</p> <p>On behalf of the George Balanchine Foundation, Mr. Conyers formed a multi-tiered team of dance and theater historians and scholars to research and document some thirty-five productions that George Balanchine choreographed</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The materials collected for the “Popular Balanchine” project include essays written on individual works and summary essays on the project (see “Overview of the Project) or collected titles in a particular medium (see “Hollywood Films”). Included also are correspondence, print materials such as playbills, souvenir programs, reviews, articles, book excerpts; graphic materials such as photographs, drawings, set designs, and costume sketches; and other materials such as music (both published and unpublished, some annotated), production notes, prompt books, scripts, and scenarios. Almost every title includes oral history interview transcripts and some include typescripts of published or archival materials, interview summaries, sources of original materials, and compilations of notices and reviews. Most of the materials are collected in binders while some dossiers include additional oversize materials. The first item in most binders is an inventory of the dossier’s contents. The bulk of the materials are reproductions (photocopies or digital scans) but the collection does include original artifacts such as playbills, souvenir programs, photographs, music, print excerpts, and some correspondence.</p> <p>Original audiotapes and videotapes (both in digital and/or VHS formats) were included in the individual dossiers but these, and other audio/visual materials, have been removed from the dossiers and are available separately.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Popular Balanchine dossiers are arranged in six series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19846#c416870'>Series I: Paris Productions: Vaudeville and Operetta</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1927 - 1931</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19846#c416873'>Series II: London Productions: Revues, Variety Shows, and Film</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1929 - 1931</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19846#c416879'>Series III: Broadway Shows: Revues, Book Musicals, and Operettas</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1936 - 1982</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19846#c416901'>Series IV: Hollywood Films</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1938 - 1944</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19846#c416907'>Series V: Circus</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1942</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19846#c416909'>Series VI:Overview of the Project, by Claude Conyers</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>2000 - 2004</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Inventory, two essays: \"Popular Balanchine: How It Grew,\" by Nancy Reynolds and \"Popular Balanchine: A Research Initiative,\" by Claude Conyers, background materials (digital image and photocopies from printed sources), project documents (typescripts prepared by Claude Conyers, 2000 - 2004 includes sample contract, sample work plans, and guidelines for interviewers), progress reports (transcripts prepared by Claude Conyers, 2000 - 2004), bulletins and notices to the research team (2000 - 2003), press coverage (photocopies of excerpts from printed sources, email transmission, and clippings), public events (programs, conference session proposals, press release, invitations, correspondence, memorandum, and typescripts of public addresses), and transcripts of oral history interviews and/or talks with Al Hirschfeld, Miles Kreuger, and Vera Zorina.</p> <p>Also includes: photocopy of letter from Barbara Horgan to Claude Conyers.</p> <p>The following items are available separately: <ul> <li>Al Hirschfeld interview audiotape; Miles Kreuger interview audiotapes;</li> <li>Vera Zorina conversation audiotape; and Vera Zorina interview on CD.</li> <li>Additional materials are expected later.</li></ul></p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p> <ul> <li>Series I: Paris Productions: Vaudeville and Operetta, 1927-1931</li> <li>Series II: London Productions: Revues, Variety Shows, and Film, 1929-1931</li> <li>Series III: Broadway Shows: Revues, Book Musicals, and Operettas, 1936-1962</li> <li>Series IV: Hollywood Films, 1938-1944</li> <li>Series V: Circus, 1942</li> <li>Series VI: Overview of the Project, 2000-2004</li></ul></p>", "supress_display"=>true}
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{"value"=>"<p>The George Balanchine Foundation</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Photocopying prohibited.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Curator, Jerome Robbins Dance Division.</p>"}
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1927
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2004
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{"value"=>"<p>The Popular Balanchine dossiers document the Paris and London reviews, Broadway work, and London and Hollywood films choreographed by George Balanchine, 1927-1954. The collection includes research by twenty principal researchers and includes binders with some original but primarily photocopied artifacts for the many titles, interviews with participants, and some scripts and music</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
{"value"=>"<p>Researchers include Claude Conyers, Judith Chazin Bennahum, Barbara Newman, Beth Genné, Lynn Garafola, Constance Valis Hill, Camille Hardy, Barbara Palfy, Marilyn Hunt, Kate Mattingly, Dawn Lille, George Dorris, Christopher Caines, Doug Fullington, Janice Ross, Elizabeth Aldrich, Sally Sommer, Tommy DeFrantz, and Sally Banes</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
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1927
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{"value"=>"English"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Charles Perrier and Claude Conyers; Machine-readable finding aid created by Charles Perrier.</p>"}
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42 boxes
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1927
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2004