Found 5 collections related to Dance -- 20th century

Joan Duddy (1937-2015) was an American dance administrator and curator who was influential in the New York City downtown dance scene from the 1980s through the 2000s. The Joan Duddy collection documents the later portion of her career, primarily dating from about 1980 to 2014, through project plans; published reviews; meeting notes; publicity items; contracts; correspondence; research materials; and video recordings of performances. less

Stephanie Woodard is a dancer and choreographer. This collection is composed of materials related to Javanese classical dance, compiled while she was a graduate student. This includes academic texts, her notes, slides and photographs musical notations, video recordings, as well as pieces of a Javanese female dancer's costume and a puppet representation of a dancer, and a selection of Woodard's later articles on general dance topics. less

Max Waldman (1919-1981) was an American photographer noted for creating stylized, expressive dance and theater images. The Max Waldman photographs, which date primarily from 1965 to 1981 and include over a thousand mounted black-and-white photographic prints, trace Waldman's career from its commercial advertising beginnings until his death as a distinguished performance photographer. The collection also includes some professional files relating to management of his studio during and after his lifetime, daybooks, and video recordings. less

Gus Solomons Jr. was an African-American dancer, choreographer, teacher, and writer. Solomons was a soloist in the dance companies of Donald McKayle, Pearl Lang, Martha Graham and, most notably, Merce Cunningham. Solomons formed his own troupe, The Solomons Company/Dance in 1972. Twenty-four years later in 1996, Solomons founded Paradigm to celebrate mature artists on stage. The collection includes correspondence, Solomons articles, notes and notebooks, photographs, posters, drawings, audio and moving image materials. less

Claudia Gitelman (1936-2012), was a dancer, choreographer, author, and assistant professor at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Her artistic collaborators for productions include Alwin Nikolais, Murray Louis, and Hanya Holm. The Claudia Gitelman papers, dated 1946-2012 (bulk dates 2010-2011), focuses mostly on Gitelman's curatorial work for Alwin Nikolais' Total Theater of Motion, a centennial celebration held at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts from 2010 to 2011. These files include correspondence, photographs of the Nikolais Dance Theatre dance performances, watercolor sketches of dancers, and programs. Gitelman's career development is represented to a lesser extent mainly through photographs, programs and writings. The electronic records contain a number of manuscripts, drafts, and planning documents for the book On Stage Alone: Soloists and the Modern Dance Canon (2012) that Gitelman co-edited with Barbara Palfy. Other materials in the collection include clippings, notebooks, and notes. less