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{"value"=>"*MGZMD 45", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19622", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1945-1980", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1945/1980"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Royes Fernandez 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"=>"For the most part the <span class=\"persname\">Royes Fernandez</span> Papers (ca. 1945-1980) comprise correspondence. This series (784 items), dating from 1945 until shortly before his death in 1980, is predominantly letters written to <span class=\"persname\">Fernandez</span> from personal and professional friends and audience members. They include birthday and holiday greeting cards."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Royes Fernandez papers, *MGZMD 45. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Fernandez, Royes, 1945-1980", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Royes Emanuel Fernandez was born July 15, 1929, in New Orleans, Louisiana. His parents, Manuel Paul Fernandez (a jeweler) and Francoise Blanchine Fernandez, were of Spanish and French descent respectively. He had an older sister, Jeanne.</p> <p>Fernandez began his ballet training at age eight with Lelia Haller in New Orleans. He performed with the New Orleans Opera Ballet in 1944. During the summer of 1945 he was in New York studying at the School of American Ballet.</p> <p>After graduating from high school in June 1946, Fernandez went to New York to live, and there he studied with Vincenzo Celli, joining the Original Ballet Russe (de Basil) in September of that year. The following year he joined the Markova-Dolin Ballet as a soloist. His primary affiliation from 1950 to 1973 was American Ballet Theatre, first as a soloist and then as a principal dancer from 1957 onward. However, Fernandez continued to perform with other companies as a guest artist or as a member for brief periods of time. These companies included Ballet Alicia Alonso, Borovansky Ballet, London Festival Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Margot Fonteyn 1963 World Tour (as her partner), and the New York City Ballet (Spring 1959-Spring 1960).</p> <p>Fernandez was considered by many the greatest American <span class=\"title\">danseur noble</span>to date. He was particularly noted for the male principal roles in <span class=\"title\">Giselle, Swan Lake,</span>and <span class=\"title\">La Sylphide</span>but danced contemporary works as well. He partnered the foremost ballerinas of his time including Fonteyn, Lupe Serrano, and Toni Lander. Fernandez was active as a teacher and guest perfomer with both major and small companies throughout the United States, eventually leaving active performing to join the faculty first of the University of South Florida (1973-1974) and then the State University of New York at Purchase from 1974 until his death.</p> <p>Royes Fernandez died of cancer on March 3, 1980, in New York.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>For the most part the <span class=\"persname\">Royes Fernandez</span> Papers (ca. 1945-1980) comprise correspondence. This series (784 items), dating from 1945 until shortly before his death in 1980, is predominantly letters written to <span class=\"persname\">Fernandez</span> from personal and professional friends and audience members. They include birthday and holiday greeting cards.|||The second largest series is Legal and Financial Papers (236 items). These papers are concerned with Workman's Compensation, unemployment records, AGMA records, automobile insurance and repairs and also include <span class=\"persname\">Fernandez'</span> leases, passports, visas, licenses, identification cards, airline tickets, and various personal bills and receipts.|||The Companies and Universities series (151 items) pertains to <span class=\"persname\">Fernandez'</span> association with various institutions as a dancer and teacher. It includes correspondences, schedules, tour itineraries, and course records and grades. The companies are American Ballet Theatre, The Eliot Feld Ballet, The San Francisco Ballet, and The Royal Swedish Ballet. The schools are The University of South Florida and The State University of New York at Purchase.|||The remaining series are: Contracts, 1952-1979 (94 items), of <span class=\"persname\">Fernandez'</span> performing engagements, and Miscellaneous (90 items), including calendars, diaries, and mementos from a 1966 Russian tour.|||Certain non-manuscript materials received with the original purchase have been removed from the <span class=\"persname\">Royes Fernandez</span> Papers. All newspaper and magazine articles, programs, photographs, scrapbooks, films, and videotapes have been dispersed throughout the Dance Collection. A separation list, located at the end of the folder list, indicates the nature and disposition of these items.|||Material is written in English with some Spanish</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Royes Fernandez papers are arranged in five series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19622#c335080'>I. Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1945-1979.</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>784 items</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>For the most part the <span class=\"persname\">Royes Fernandez</span> Papers (ca. 1945-1980) comprise correspondence. This series (784 items), dating from 1945 until shortly before his death in 1980, is predominantly letters written to <span class=\"persname\">Fernandez</span> from personal and professional friends and audience members. They include birthday and holiday greeting cards.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19622#c335119'>II. Contracts</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1952-1979.</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>94 items</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19622#c335143'>III. Companies and Universities</a></div>\n<div class='series-extent'>151 Item</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The Companies and Universities series (151 items) pertains to <span class=\"persname\">Fernandez'</span> association with various institutions as a dancer and teacher. It includes correspondences, schedules, tour itineraries, and course records and grades. The companies are American Ballet Theatre, The Eliot Feld Ballet, The San Francisco Ballet, and The Royal Swedish Ballet. The schools are The University of South Florida and The State University of New York at Purchase.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19622#c335162'>IV. Legal and Financial Papers</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The second largest series is Legal and Financial Papers (236 items). These papers are concerned with Workman's Compensation, unemployment records, AGMA records, automobile insurance and repairs and also include <span class=\"persname\">Fernandez'</span> leases, passports, visas, licenses, identification cards, airline tickets, and various personal bills and receipts.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19622#c335176'>V. Miscellaneous</a></div>\n<div class='series-extent'>90 items</div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<ul> <li>I. Correspondence</li> <li>II. Contracts</li> <li>III. Companies and Universities</li> <li>IV. Legal and Financial Papers</li> <li>V. Miscellaneous, including Russian tourmementos, calendars, addresses</li></ul>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Jeanne Bruno. Jeanne Bruno. Received: September 1980.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>The following material was received with the original gift but has been separated from the manuscript collection. The current location of the material (as of July 1986) is indicated. All the materials remain in the possession of the Dance Collection.</p> <ul> <li>Book of dance poems and drawings entitled “Despite the Still Sadness” handmade by Sandra Armstrong - Location: 3-D cabinet</li> <li>Clippings - Location: to *MGZR files</li> <li>Plaques <ul> <li>Louisiana Council for Music and Performing Arts; 1968 and 1974 (two plaques)- Location: 3-D cabinet</li> <li>Personalities of the South Award; 1975-1976 - Location: 3-D cabinet</li></ul></li> <li>Photographs - Location: to *MGZEA files</li> <li>Programs - Location: to *MGZB files</li></ul>"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1945
- date_inclusive_end
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1980
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Jeanne Bruno, 1980.</p>"}
- note
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{"value"=>"<p>Register, folder list, and separation list available at reference desk</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
- langmaterial_code
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eng
spa
- keydate
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1945
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Diane Coburn Brüning.</p>"}
- extent_statement
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1155 items in 134 folders
- date_start
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1945
- date_end
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1980