Rudolf Nureyev photographic scrapbooks

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physdesc

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unitid

{"value"=>"*MGZEB 01-1377", "type"=>"local_call"}

{"value"=>"19772", "type"=>"local_mss"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"ca. 1956-1993", "type"=>"inclusive", "certainty"=>"approximate", "normal"=>"1956/1993"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Rudolf Nureyev photographic scrapbooks"}

repository

{"value"=>"The <span class=\"corpname\">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

{"value"=>"The collection was compiled by <span class=\"persname\">Robert Burns Gable</span> to document the career of dancer <span class=\"persname\">Rudolf Nureyev</span>. Included are performance photographs, studio shots, candid photographs, and reproductions of photographs, reviews, and feature articles from magazines and newspapers."}

prefercite

{"value"=>"<p>Rudolf Nureyev photographic scrapbooks Gable, Robert Burns, collector, *MGZEB 01-1377, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Art.</p>"}

origination

{"value"=>"Gable, Robert Burns", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Collector", "role_code"=>"col"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Robert Burns Gable was born in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. Influenced at an early age by the films of Fred Astaire, he studied tap dancing. While still an art school student, he traveled with the Cole Brothers Circus, performing as a clown. A lifelong dance enthusiast, his early dance viewing included the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and the Sadlers Wells Ballet, including Margot Fonteyn in the 1949 production of <span class=\"title\">Sleeping Beauty.</span>Other dancers whose careers he followed included Vera Zorina, Alicia Alonso, Igor Youskevitch, John Kriza, and, Rudolf Nureyev.</p> <p>Mr. Gable's first image of Nureyev was a photograph accompanying a news story about the Russian dancer's defection in 1961. That photograph was kept over his drawing board and was the source of a portrait painted by Gable which he presented three years later to Nureyev after a performance by the dancer and Fonteyn at the old Metropolitan Opera House. Gable saw most of Nureyev's roles throughout his career, including the dancer's only performances in the role of <span class=\"title\">Bluebeard.</span>Having met Nureyev on numerous occasions, Gable remained a devoted “fan” throughout his career in the West.</p> <p>Starting with that first photograph in 1961, Mr.Gable, also assisted by friends and Nureyev fans in the United States and around the world, collected reviews, photographs, and news items on the Russian dancer, growing into what is probably one of the most comprehensive collections on Rudolf Nureyev in the world.</p>"}

{"value"=>"<p>Rudolf Nureyev, born March 17, 1938, started his dance career as an amateur folk dancer but later (1955-1958) studied at the Leningrad Choreographic School under Aleksandr Pushkin. He entered the Kirov Ballet where for the next three years he danced principal roles with the leading ballerinas of the company. In 1961, on a company tour to Paris, where his performances were greatly admired, he was ordered to return to Russia instead of continuing to London with the company. His career at that point having been an almost continuous conflict with the authorities, he decided instead to request political asylum. In the West he first appeared with the Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas and then in a London Royal Academy of Dancing Gala at the invitation of Margot Fonteyn. This latter appearance was the beginning of a long association with Fonteyn and the Royal Ballet. He also appeared throughout the world dancing and staging classical choreography as well as performing modern repertory such as Frederick Ashton's <span class=\"title\">Marguerite and Armand,</span>Roland Petit's <span class=\"title\">Paradise Lost,</span>Maurice Béjart's <span class=\"title\">Songs of a Wayfarer,</span>Martha Graham's <span class=\"title\">Lucifer,</span>and Rudy Van Dantzig's <span class=\"title\">Ulysses.</span>He also mounted full productions of <span class=\"title\">La Bayadère, Raymonda, Swan Lake, Don Quixote, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker,</span>and <span class=\"title\">Romeo and Juliet.</span>In 1972, Nureyev starred in the full-length film <span class=\"title\">I am a Dancer;</span>in 1974-1975, appeared on Broadway in a program entitled <span class=\"title\">Nureyev and Friends;</span>and later in an extended American tour of the musical <span class=\"title\">The King and I.</span>In 1983, he became director of the Paris Opéra Ballet, for which he created contemporary and classical works including his last, the 1992 <span class=\"title\">La Bayadère.</span>Having been diagnosed with AIDS virus in 1984, a fact he steadfastly refused to publicly acknowledge, he succumbed to the disease on January 6, 1993, age 54, in Paris.</p>"}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>The collection was compiled by <span class=\"persname\">Robert Burns Gable</span> to document the career of dancer <span class=\"persname\">Rudolf Nureyev</span>. Included are performance photographs, studio shots, candid photographs, and reproductions of photographs, reviews, and feature articles from magazines and newspapers.|||Language: English, French</p>"}

{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Rudolf Nureyev photographic scrapbooks are arranged in thirty-five series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c378747'>Book 1</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c378822'>Book 2</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c378872'>Book 3</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c378931'>Book 4</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c379022'>Book 5</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c379076'>Book 6</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c379156'>Book 7</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c379231'>Book 8</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c379269'>Book 9</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c379325'>Book 10</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c379392'>Book 11</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c379408'>Book 12</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c379490'>Book 13</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c379564'>Book 14</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c379645'>Book 15</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c379720'>Book 16</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c379780'>Book 17</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c379836'>Book 18</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c379902'>Book 19</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c379986'>Book 20</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c380059'>Book 21</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c380133'>Book 22</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c380198'>Book 23</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c380284'>Book 24</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c380368'>Book 25</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c380435'>Book 26</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c380519'>Book 27</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c380521'>Book 28</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c380582'>Book 29</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c380588'>Book 30</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c380659'>Book 31</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c380732'>Book 32</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c380817'>Book 33</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c380852'>Book 34</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19772#c380885'>Book 35</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}

acqinfo

{"value"=>"<p>Gift. Robert Burns Gable. Received: 2000.</p>"}

date_inclusive_start

1956

date_inclusive_end

1993

note

{"value"=>"<p>Scrapbooks compiled by Robert Burns Gable documenting the career of dancer Rudolf Nureyev</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Includes performance photographs, studio shots, and candid photographs. Also includes reproductions of photographs from magazines and newspapers</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

keydate

1956

langmaterial

{"value"=>"English"}

processinfo

{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Robert Burns Gable, Nancy Sifton.</p>"}

extent_statement

34 albums, 5 document boxes, 1 oversize box

date_start

1956

date_end

1993

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1. Book 1 [74/1]
2. Book 2 [49/1]
3. Book 3 [58/1]
4. Book 4 [1/1]
5. Book 5 [53/1]
6. Book 6 [79/1]
7. Book 7 [74/1]
8. Book 8 [37/1]
9. Book 9 [1/1]
10. Book 10 [66/1]
11. Book 11 [15/1]
12. Book 12 [1/1]
13. Book 13 [73/1]
14. Book 14 [80/1]
15. Book 15 [74/1]
16. Book 16 [59/1]
17. Book 17 [55/1]
18. Book 18 [65/1]
19. Book 19 [83/1]
20. Book 20 [72/1]
21. Book 21 [73/1]
22. Book 22 [64/1]
23. Book 23 [85/1]
24. Book 24 [83/1]
25. Book 25 [66/1]
26. Book 26 [1/1]
27. Book 27 [1/1]
28. Book 28 [1/1]
29. Book 29 [5/1]
30. Book 30 [70/1]
31. Book 31 [72/1]
32. Book 32 [84/1]
33. Book 33 [34/1]
34. Book 34 [32/1]
35. Book 35 [49/1]