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{"value"=>"Selma Jeanne Cohen papers of <span class=\"title\">Dance Perspectives</span>"}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"title\">Dance Perspectives</span> was published quarterly from 1959-1976, a total of 66 issues plus a 1962 Annual which was a bonus for subscribers. Selma Jeanne Cohen's records of <span class=\"title\">Dance Perspectives</span> cover this period, but there is no material for issues #1, #2, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #15, #20, #23, #25, and #29. The amount of material on each issue varies considerably; there is only one letter pertaining to issue #3."}
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{"value"=>"<p>Selma Jeanne Cohen was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1920. She received an A.A. degree from Stephens College and an A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. (in English) from the University of Chicago. She received her dance education from Edna McRae, Eugene Loring, Martha Graham, Hanya Holm, and Jose Limon. She has been active as an author, editor, lecturer, and teacher.</p> <p>Cohen was managing and associate editor of the monograph <span class=\"title\">Dance Perspectives</span> from its founding in 1960 until 1965 and editor from 1965 until its demise in 1976. She is the author of articles in numerous publications, journals, encyclopedias, and anthologies. She is also the author or editor of numerous books, including <span class=\"title\"> The Modern Dance: Seven Statements of Belief</span>(1966), <span class=\"title\">Doris Humphrey, An Artist First</span> (1972), and <span class=\"title\">Next Week, Swan Lake: Reflections on Dance and Dancers</span> (1982).</p> <p>Cohen has taught courses in dance history and critical writing at colleges and universities throughout the United States and Canada. She was Founder-Director of the University of Chicago Seminars in Dance History (1974-1976), a three-week course which was the first intensive seminar on dance history. She was Founder-Director of the Connecticut College American Dance Festival Critics' Conferences (1970-1972), which she began as a forum to permit professional dance critics from around the country to discuss common artistic and journalistic problems, to develop writing skills, and to attend a range of dance performances.</p> <p>Among the awards and honors received by Cohen have been a Rockefeller Foundation Research Grant (1969), the Professional Achievement Award, University of Chicago (1974), the American Dance Guild Award (1976), and the Dance Magazine Award (1981). She was a charter member of the Dance Panel of the National Endowment for the Arts (1966-1971).</p> <p>Selma Jeanne Cohen is currently the editor of the first comprehensive multi-volume reference work on dance, the <span class=\"title\">International Encyclopedia of Dance,</span> to be published by Charles Scribner's Sons. <span class=\"title\">Dance Perspectives</span> was a quarterly founded in 1958 with A.J. Pishl as editor, Selma Jeanne Cohen as associate editor, and Sheppard Black as assistant editor. It was described in its first brochure as being \"devoted to publishing scholarly dance monographs. In addition to recovering the past through historical essays, it will examine the present and suggest the future. The attempt is to provide the entire dance audience with historical and critical material to enlarge existing bases for judgment.\"</p> <p>The first issue, \"Winter 1959,\" was published November 25, 1958, by Dance Perspectives, Inc. With the publication of the second issue, A.J. Pishl and Selma Jeanne Cohen were listed as editors. Cohen purchased <span class=\"title\">Dance Perspectives</span> from Sheppard Black in 1965 and, beginning with issue #21, she was listed as editor, a position she retained until the quarterly ceased publication.</p> <p>John Martin was listed as consulting editor from issue #25 in the spring of 1966 through the final issue, #66, in the summer of 1976. Karl Leabo was credited with the cover design, which he continued to do until 1962, after which he was listed variously as art editor, art director and associate editor, almost continuously until the summer of 1970. Clell Mize was the art director from issue #43 in 1970 through issue #54 in 1973.</p> <p>In October 1975, the total average distribution of the quarterly was 1,741, with 2,500 copies of a single issue published. In 1976, the Board of Directors of the tax-exempt, educational Dance Perspectives Foundation consisted of Clive Barnes, Selma Jeanne Cohen, George Dorris, Jane Hermann, Anna Kisselgoff, Mary Ann Liebert, Jean Nuchtern, Elinor Rogosin, Ben Sommers, Walter Terry, Michael Truppin, David Vaughan, and Violette Verdy.</p> <p>Marcel Dekker, Inc. became the publisher of <span class=\"title\">Dance Perspectives</span> with issue #61 in the spring of 1975 and continued through the final issue, #66, in the summer of 1976.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p><span class=\"title\">Dance Perspectives</span> was published quarterly from 1959-1976, a total of 66 issues plus a 1962 Annual which was a bonus for subscribers. Selma Jeanne Cohen's records of <span class=\"title\">Dance Perspectives</span> cover this period, but there is no material for issues #1, #2, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #15, #20, #23, #25, and #29. The amount of material on each issue varies considerably; there is only one letter pertaining to issue #3.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<ol class=\"list\"> <li>1. What Ballet is About: An American Glossary (by Lincoln Kirstein)</li> <li>2. Writings on Lev Ivanov (by Yury Slonimsky)</li> <li>3. Dances of Anatolian Turkey (by Metin And)</li> <li>4. The Alhambra Ballet (by Ivor Guest)</li> <li>5. The Legacy of Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis (by Walter Terry)</li> <li>6. The American Ballet Theatre: 1940-1960 (by Selma Jeanne Cohen and A.J. Pischl)</li> <li>7. The Duport Mystery (by Lillian Moore)</li> <li>8. Impressions of Kabuki (by A. Hyatt Mayor)</li> <li>9. Frederick Ashton and his Ballets (by Clive Barnes)</li> <li>10. A Curious and Wonderful Gymnastic: \"The Arab Danse du Ventre\" by Morroe Berger and \"Learning the Danse du Ventre\" by La Meri</li> <li>11. The Dancing Prices of Denmark (by Tom G. Veale)</li> <li>12. Days of Divine Indiscipline (by John Martin, photographs by Thomas Bouchard)</li> <li>13. Terpsichore: The Story of the Dance in Ancient Greece (by Lillian B. Lawler)</li> <li>14. The Truth about the Russian Dancers, a play (by J.M. Barrie, introduction by Tamara Karsavina)</li> <li>15. Prints on Pushcarts: The Dance Lithographs of Currier and Ives (by Lillian Moore)</li> <li>16. Composer/Choreographer, a symposium on music for dance</li> <li>17. Antony Tudor. Part One: The Years in England (by John Percival)</li> <li>18. Antony Tudor. Part Two: The Years in America and After (by Selma Jeanne Cohen)</li> <li>19. Dances of the Three-Thousand League Land (by Alan C. Heyman)</li> <li>20. How to Succeed in Ballet: \"The Court Ballet in France: 1615-1641\" by Marie-Francoise Christout and \"How to Compose a Successful Ballet\" (by M. de Saint-Hubert)</li> <li>21. Follow Me! The Autobiography of Irma Duncan, Part I</li> <li>22. Follow Me! The Autobiography of Irma Duncan, Part II</li> <li>23. Stanislavski and the Ballet (by Natalia Roslavleva)</li> <li>24. The Eight Nayikas: Heroines of the Classical Dance of India (by Mrinalini Sarabhai)</li> <li>25. New Dance: An Unfinished Autobiography (by Doris Humphrey)</li> <li>26. There's None Like Nancy Dawson! (by Selma Jeanne Cohen)</li> <li>27. El Duende (by Doris Niles)</li> <li>28. In Search of Design (by Rouben Ter-Arutunian)</li> <li>29. Ballet: Flight and Reality (by Birgit Cullberg)</li> <li>30. Cine-Dance, a symposium on dance film</li> <li>31. The Dance Theater of Lester Horton (by Larry Warren, Frank Eng, Bella Lewitzky, Joyce Trisler)</li> <li>32. Ballet under the Three Crowns (by Mary Skeaping)</li> <li>33. Woods that Dance (by Matteo)</li> <li>34. Time to Walk in Space, a symposium on Merce Cunningham</li> <li>35. Trance Dance (by Erika Bourguignon)</li> <li>36. Beyond Technique (by Erik Bruhn)</li> <li>37. Dandies and Dancers (by Ivor Guest)</li> <li>38. Dancers' Notes edited by Marcia B. Siegel</li> <li>39. Pigeon-Wings and Polkas: Dance of the California Miners (by Gretchen Schneider)</li> <li>40. The Male Image (by Igor Youskevitch, Bruce Marks, Helgi Tomasson, Luis Fuente, Edward Villella)</li> <li>41. The Shapes of Space: The Art of Mary Wigman and Oscar Schlemmer (by Ernst Scheyer)</li> <li>42. Feasts and Folias: The Dance in Portugal (by José Sasportes)</li> <li>43. Micronesian Heritage (by Mary Browning)</li> <li>44. Russian Journals (by Agnes De Mille)</li> <li>45. From Master to Student: Letters of Enrico Cecchetti to Gisella Caccialanza, edited by Sally Bailey</li> <li>46. Into the Mystic with Miss Ruth (by Christena Schlundt)</li> <li>47. German Dance Prints, 1790-1890 (by Edwin Binney III)</li> <li>48. Nik: A Documentary Study of Alwin Nikolais (by Marcia B. Siegel)</li> <li>49. Marius Petipa and \"The Sleeping Beauty\" (by Vera Krasovskaya)</li> <li>50. The Connecticut College American Dance Festival, 1948-1972 (by Tom Borek)</li> <li>51. Sayaw Silangan: The Dance in the Philippines (by Reynaldo G. Alejandro)</li> <li>52. The Dance, the Dancer and the Poem (edited by Jack Anderson)</li> <li>53. Sixty Years of Italian Dance Prints, 1815-1872 (by Edwin Binney III)</li> <li>54. For John Martin. Entries from an Early Diary (by Lincoln Kirstein)</li> <li>55. Three Essays in Dance Aesthetics (by George Beiswanger, Wilfried A. Hofmann, David M. Levin)</li> <li>56. Dance in Ghana (by Odette Blum)</li> <li>57. In the Shadow of the Swastika: Dance in Germany, 1927-1936 (by Horst Koegler)</li> <li>58. The Beautiful Danger: Facets of the Romantic Ballet (by Erik Aschengreen)</li> <li>59. Shorashim: The Roots of Israeli Folk Dance (by Judith Brin Ingber)</li> <li>60. Three Years with Charles Weidman (by David W. Wynne)</li> <li>61. All that Strange and Mysterious Folk: Studies in Ballet (Supernaturals by Susan Au, Juliet Neidish, Susan Reimer Sticklor)</li> <li>62. Les fées des forests de S. Germain, ballet de cour, 1625 (commentary by John H. Baron)</li> <li>63. The Art of the Sleeve in Chinese Dance (by Gloria B. Strauss)</li> <li>64. Prechistenka 20: The Isadora Duncan School in Moscow (by Natalia Roslavleva)</li> <li>65. Rural Felicity (by Joy Van Cleef)</li> <li>66. A Chronicle of Dance in Baltimore, 1780-1814 (by Crystelle Trump Bond)</li></ol>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Selma Jeanne Cohen papers of <span class=\"title\">Dance Perspectives</span> is arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19706#c361269'>Series I: Individual Issues</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Series I is arranged numerically by issue number, with the bonus Annual appearing at the end. The title of the issue is also given. Most issues have a general \"correspondence\" subheading, arranged chronologically. These files often include plans for promotion and publication of the issue, permission for use of photographs or other material, or letters written by readers about the issue. If the quantity of correspondence warrants separation from the general file, there are additional files by name of correspondent, usually the author/editor of the issue. In some cases, correspondence may contain sections of manuscript material with notes and/or corrections. In issue #52 there are some poems included in the correspondence. Letters to or from Selma Jeanne Cohen are spread throughout the correspondence files.</p> <p>The Typescript files contains a copy of the manuscript/typescript for the issue, with the pages in the order received, and often with corrections or notes by Cohen.</p> <p>The Miscellaneous files may contain reviews of performances and/or issues, programs, printed articles from other sources (magazines, newspapers), press releases, brochures, and flyers.</p> <p>The Legal files contains a brief contract with the author/editor of the issue and Dance Perspectives Foundation.</p> <p>The Biographical Material files contain information about the author/editor of the issue, unless specifically listed otherwise.</p> <p>The Photographs files contain photographs or xeroxes of photographs that were used or considered for use in the issue.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19706#c361687'>Series II: Unpublished Material</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains correspondence, typescripts, proposals for subjects for issues, and some articles. The subseries Proposals is listed alphabetically by correspondent's name, with the subject given in parentheses. The proposals are more developed and detailed than those in the Suggestions subseries for Issues, which is also filed alphabetically by correspondent.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19706#c361708'>Series III: Promotion</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Series III contains correspondence, mailings, and advertisements relating to the promotion of <span class=\"title\">Dance Perspectives</span> and some individual issues. A small portion of the material had been damaged by water, resulting in some pages being specially treated to preserve them, and some material being xeroxed onto acid-free paper. The material affected largely pertained to issues #30, #32, and #39.Throughout the Folder List, SJC refers to Selma Jeanne Cohen.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Selma Jeanne Cohen. Received: 1984, 1985.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The following items were received with the original gift but have been separated from the records. The current location of these items (as of February 1990) is indicated.</p> <ol class=\"list\"> <li>Original draft of <span class=\"title\">The Modern Dance: Seven Statements of Belief,</span>Selma Jeanne Cohen, editor [typescripts by Erick Hawkins, Hanya Holm, Pauline Koner, Jose Limon, Donald McKayle, Alwin Nikolais, Anna Sokolow, Paul Taylor] - Location: *MGZMB 89-28330 (Basement)</li> <li>Various photographs - Location: *MGZEA</li> <li>Various clippings, press releases - Location: *MGZR</li></ol>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Henley Haslam.</p>"}
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1959
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{"value"=>"Selma Jeanne Cohen papers of <span class=\"title\">Dance Perspectives</span>, *MGZMD 56. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}