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{"value"=>"1909-1981", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1909/1981"}
{"value"=>"1936-1978", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1936/1978"}
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{"value"=>"Walter Terry papers, Additions"}
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"16 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"5.96 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Jerome Robbins Dance Division</span>"}
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{"value"=>"Walter Terry (1913-1982) was a New York City-based writer, dance advocate, and dance critic. He was dance editor for the <span class=\"title\">New York Herald Tribune</span> and published twenty-two books on dance. The Walter Terry papers, Additions (1909-1981, bulk 1936-1978) contain correspondence, research materials, promotional materials, and manuscripts of Terry's writings."}
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{"value"=>"Multiple languages"}
{"value"=>"Materials are primarily in English. One dance program is in Russian."}
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{"value"=>"Terry, Walter", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p>This biographical note was originally written by Kit Fluker in 2014, with some edits by Amy Lau in 2023.</p> <p>Walter Terry (born 1913, in Brooklyn, New York) was a prolific writer, dance advocate, and dance critic. He not only wrote about dance but also advocated for it, organizing dance festivals, serving on juries, and giving lectures on dance.</p> <p>Terry began his career as a dance critic at the <span class=\"title\">Boston Herald</span> in 1936, where he reported on the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. From 1939 to 1942 and 1945 to 1966, he worked for the <span class=\"title\">New York Herald Tribune</span> as a critic and dance editor. During World War II, Terry served in the United States Army in the North African campaign and gave lecture demonstrations on dance to the Allied Forces. When the <span class=\"title\">New York Herald Tribune</span> became the <span class=\"title\">New York World Journal Tribune</span> from 1966 to 1967, Terry continued as the dance critic until the newspaper ceased publication in 1967. He worked as the dance critic for the <span class=\"title\">Saturday Review</span> until it folded in 1982. Terry also had a column in <span class=\"title\">Dance Magazine</span> and <span class=\"title\">The Trib</span>, a short-lived New York daily newspaper that ended in 1978.</p> <p>Terry published twenty-two books on dance, including <span class=\"title\">Invitation to Dance</span> (1942), <span class=\"title\">Star Performance: The Story of the World's Great Ballerinas</span> (1954), <span class=\"title\">Isadora Duncan: Her Life, Her Art, Her Legacy</span> (1964), <span class=\"title\">The Ballet Companion</span> (1968), <span class=\"title\">Great Male Dancers of the Ballet</span> (1978), and <span class=\"title\">Alicia and Her Ballet Nacional de Cuba</span> (1981).</p> <p>Terry died in the Bronx, New York in 1982.</p> <p>--</p> <p>Bibliography Ancestry.com. <span class=\"title\">U.S., Newspapers.com™ Obituary Index, 1800s-current</span> [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2019.</p> <p><span class=\"title\">Find a Grave</span>, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/173846819/walter-matthew-terry: accessed 30 May 2023), memorial page for Walter Matthew Terry JR. (14 May 1913–4 Oct 1982), Find a Grave Memorial ID 173846819, citing Lakeview Cemetery, New Canaan, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA; Maintained by Taquoshi (contributor 47282593).</p> <p>Kisselgoff, Anna. \"Walter Terry, a Dance Critic, Author and Lecturer, is Dead.\" <span class=\"title\">New York Times</span>, October 6, 1982. https://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/06/obituaries/walter-terry-a-dance-critic-author-and-lecturer-is-dead.html.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Walter Terry papers, Additions date from 1909 to 1981 (bulk 1936-1978) and contain manuscripts, correspondence, ephemera, photographs, accolades, and research materials related to Terry's work as a dance writer and critic and to his activities with various dance organizations.</p> <p>The collection is arranged in the following three groupings: Correspondence, Ephemera, and Research Material; Manuscripts; and Degrees, Accolades, and Photographs.</p> <p>Correspondence consists mainly of letters to Terry and advance book proofs, though some copies of outgoing letters are also present. Subjects of the correspondence include Terry's reviews, requests for promotional comments and quotes, and news about dancers and their work. Terry's correspondents are dancers, educators, book editors, and other colleagues, including Little, Brown and Company Publishers; Lincoln Kirstein; Doris Humphrey; Reginald and Gladys Laubin; and Miriam Winslow. Of note is an annotated photocopy of the advance proof of <span class=\"title\">Bronislava Nijinska: Early Memoirs</span> translated and edited by Irina Nijinska and Jean Rawlinson with inserted editorial pages. The proof includes a note and brief description of the book project from Donald Hutter, executive editor of Holt, Rinehart, and Winston Publishers.</p> <p>Ephemera and research materials include programs, promotional material, drawings, clippings, reports, and notes. Subjects of these materials include the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, New York City Ballet, Netherlands Dance Theater, Martha Graham Dance Company, Ballet Rambert, the Royal Ballet, Antonio and the Ballets de Madrid, Ballet Folklórico de México, Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company, Spoleto Festival U.S.A., American Dance Festival, American Ballet Theatre (known as Ballet Theatre until 1957), Isadora Duncan, and dance education. Terry retained copies of line drawings of artists and athletes by Daerick Gross, caricatures of dancers by Alex Gard, copies of the periodicals <span class=\"title\">Focus on Dance</span> and <span class=\"title\">Dance Perspectives</span>, informational ephemera from an Arts in the Church Conference at Duke University, an artists-in-schools dance program narrative report, and a photocopy of <span class=\"title\">The Choreographic Works of Jose Limón</span> (1957) by Juliette Waung. Of note is a program, the Golden Book of Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, commemorating fifty years of Denishawn signed by St. Denis and Shawn to Terry.</p> <p>Promotional material for Terry's work is also present. The earliest materials in the collection consist of a small amount of publicity material for Adeline Genée, dating from 1909 to the 1910s.</p> <p>The collection contains responses to surveys conducted by Terry regarding dance education in American schools. Terry conducted surveys of colleges and universities in 1940 and 1947, and a survey of public elementary and secondary schools in 1951. The collection also includes some correspondence and other documents regarding Terry's work as dance editor for the Encyclopaedia Britannica.</p> <p>Manuscripts consist of typescripts and a dummy book of Terry's articles and books. Articles from the <span class=\"title\">New York Herald Tribune</span>, the <span class=\"title\">Boston Herald</span>, and other periodicals are present, as are some unpublished articles. Book manuscripts are <span class=\"title\">The Ballet Companion</span>; <span class=\"title\">Be Jubilant, My Feet!</span> (written in the 1940s); <span class=\"title\">Great Male Dancers of the Ballet</span>; <span class=\"title\">Invitation to Dance</span>; <span class=\"title\">Isadora Duncan: Her Life, Her Art, Her Legacy</span>; and <span class=\"title\">Star Performance: The Story of the World's Great Ballerinas</span>. The collection features an annotated 1980 dummy book of <span class=\"title\">Alicia and Her Ballet Nacional de Cuba</span>. Some of the manuscripts are incomplete. A partial manuscript of Kirsten Ralov's <span class=\"title\">The Bournonville School</span>, for which Terry did some editing and wrote an introduction, is also present.</p> <p>The collection also encompasses Terry's earned and honorary degrees and accolades from universities, mayors, and the Queen of Denmark commending Terry's work teaching the history of dance and dance advocacy. There is a collage from one of Terry's World War II lecture demonstrations and photographs of dancers and Terry's house.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Donated by Walter Terry in 1979. Additional material donated by Walter Terry at an unknown date.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by <span class=\"name\">Kit Fluker</span> in <span class=\"date\">2014</span>.</p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>The author/creator retains copyright of materials. For information on obtaining permission to publish, contact the Dance Division at dance@nypl.org.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Walter Terry papers, *MGZMD 167. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Boxes eight through sixteen processed by Amy Lau.", "date"=>"2023-06-23"}
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1909
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1909
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1981
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1909
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1981
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1936
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1978
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5.96 linear feet (16 boxes)
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{"value"=>"Walter Terry papers, Additions, *MGZMD 380. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}