- unitid
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{"value"=>"*MGZMD 396", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"18549", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b20298330", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1980-1987", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1980/1987"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1980
- date_inclusive_end
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1987
- keydate
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1980
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Nina Wiener papers"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>".46 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"id"=>"DAN", "value"=>"Jerome Robbins Dance Division"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Nina Wiener is an American dancer and choreographer. The Nina Wiener papers contain design materials, scores, photographs and clippings documenting Wiener's works <span class=\"title\">Wind Devil</span> (1983), <span class=\"title\">Fierce Attachments</span> (1987), <span class=\"title\">In Closed Time</span> (1985), <span class=\"title\">Integers</span> (1980), and <span class=\"title\">Transatlantic Light</span> (1987)."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Nina Wiener papers, *MGZMD 396. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Wiener, Nina", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"creator"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Nina Wiener is an American dancer and choreographer. She began dancing with Twyla Tharp in 1973, leaving the company in 1976 to start her own group, Nina Wiener and Dancers. The company was selected to participate in the New Dance USA festival in 1981, and performed at Jacobs Pillow, the London Dance Umbrella and the Utrecht Modern Dance and Movement Festival in 1984.</p> <p>In 1981 she was the only modern choreographer selected by Mikhail Baryshnikov to participate in American Ballet Theatre's workshop \"Emerging Artists Laboratory,\" where she created a work specifically for their training company.</p> <p>Wiener's company also produced pieces for the Brooklyn Academy of Music's \"Next Wave\" festival in 1985, where she premiered In Closed Time, a three-act piece with separate scores for each act and a set of ten massive architectural elements designed by the firm Arquitectonica. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Wiener spent part of each year serving as artistic adviser to the Dutch company Dance Reflex, for which she created several works and set up a training program.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Nina Wiener papers contain design materials, scores, photographs and clippings documenting Wiener's works <span class=\"title\">Wind Devil</span> (1983), <span class=\"title\">Fierce Attachments</span> (1987), <span class=\"title\">In Closed Time</span> (1985), <span class=\"title\">Integers</span> (1980), and <span class=\"title\">Transatlantic Light</span> (1987). The <span class=\"title\">Wind Devil</span> files hold photographs and clippings from a 1985 Dutch production of the piece. <span class=\"title\">Fierce Attachments</span> material consists of scores and set and stage designs, as well as an audio tape by composer Lucia Hwong. The <span class=\"title\">Transatlantic Light</span> file holds original costume sketches and a photograph of the piece's composer, Sergio Cervetti. The <span class=\"title\">In Closed Time</span> file holds a stage concept sketch. The <span class=\"title\">Integers</span> material consists of a spoken-word score and a photograph of its composer, James Sherry.</p>"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>Alphabetical by dance title.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Nina Wiener, 1993.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Compiled by <span class=\"name\">Lea Jordan</span>, <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>"}
- dsc_type
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combined
- extent_statement
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.46 linear feet (2 boxes)
- date_start
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1980
- date_end
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1987