Found 34 collections related to Dancers.

Larry Kert (1930-1991), an American actor, singer, and dancer, who was known for originating the role of Tony in Broadway's West Side Story (1957) and replacing Dean Jones as Robert in the original Broadway cast of Company (1970). The Larry Kert papers, dating from 1930 to 2016, chronicle his work primarily in musical theater productions and cabaret acts through sheet music, scripts, audio and moving image recordings, photographs, printed matter, and associated files. The collection also holds a small amount of sheet music, scripts, and photographs from American choreographer, dancer, and director Tony Stevens (1948-2011), and correspondence, ephemera, and photographs compiled by Kert's life partner Ron Pullen (1955-2023). less

Murray Spalding (1944-2010) was an American choreographer, dancer, and teacher most known for her spiritually evocative Mandala dance series. The Murray Spalding papers date from about 1953 to 2011 and outline her career through performance production files; performance and publicity photographs; choreographic notebooks; scrapbooks; clippings; dance company records, and teaching files. less

Marjorie Gamso (1944-2011) was a choreographer, dancer, and founder of the Energy Crisis dance group. The collection, dated from 1969 to 2015, primarily documents her career in New York City from 1971 until her death via correspondence, notes, photographs, press releases, and research materials. less

Don Redlich (born in 1929) is a dancer, choreographer, and pedagogue. The Don Redlich papers, dating from 1893 to 2019 (the bulk dates from the 1940s onward), document Redlich's life and career through written descriptions and videos from The Legacy of Hanya Holm: Don Redlich Remembers project; manuscripts and interviews for an unpublished memoir; Don Redlich Dance Company files; Dance Notation Bureau files; Redlich's teaching files; files devoted to Redlich's teachers; letters; school files; photographs; scrapbooks; programs and reviews; posters; datebooks; address books; drawings; family history papers; and audio and moving image recordings, which hold many performances by the Don Redlich Dance Company. The papers also contain a small set of photographs and letters from the collection of the dance critic Arthur Todd. 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

Jerome Robbins (1918-1998) was an American dancer, choreographer, producer, and director who worked in ballet, theater, film, and television. The Remembering Jerome Robbins oral histories date from 2009 to 2012 and consist of interviews conducted with actors, dancers, musicians, and other individuals who worked with Robbins throughout his career. less

Deborah Jowitt (1934-) is an American dance critic and author. The Deborah Jowitt interview transcripts, dated 1974 to 2003, contain transcripts of interviews for her 2004 book, Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His Dance. less

Forrest Bonshire (1926-2012) was an American dancer and choreographer. The Forrest Bonshire photographs, dating from the 1930s to 2012, primarily document his dancing career with photographs, programs, letters, telegrams, clippings, contracts, and a scrapbook. less

The Marilyn Wood papers, dating from the 1950s to 2016, consist of photographic materials, programs, notes, notebooks, journals, posters, fliers, interviews, press clippings, and video recordings created and collected by Wood over the course of her career as a dancer, choreographer, artistic director, and producer. The bulk of the papers detail Wood's work as the artistic director and choreographer of worldwide site-specific, festival-like performances that she called celebrations. less

The Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center (THPAC) is a non-profit organization based in Brooklyn, New York, whose mission is supporting Black performers and providing community access to dance. The Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center records, which date from the 1920s to 2019, trace the institution's cultural significance through administrative records, performance video footage, photographs, promotional material, and awards files. less

David Dorfman (born 1955) is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, musician, and activist, and the artistic director of David Dorfman Dance, a modern dance company. The David Dorfman papers (1980-2017) document Dorfman's performance and teaching career, as well as the activities of David Dorfman Dance, through video and sound recordings; photographs; programs, clippings, and publicity files; and the files of Art Sweats, Inc. (Dorfman's non-profit management company). less

Ruthanna Boris (1919-2007) was an American ballet dancer and choreographer who performed with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and choreographed works for the New York City Ballet. The Ruthanna Boris papers date from 1935 to 2007 and document Boris's work on an unpublished book through draft manuscripts, correspondence, clippings, and notes. less

Founded by dancers Betty Jones and Fritz Ludin, Dances We Dance is a non-profit organization dedicated to dance performance and education. The Dances We Dance collection covers Jones and Ludin's involvement with the organization until their retirement in 2019, as well as their earlier careers and time spent as part of the José Limón Dance Company. The collection consists of performance files, press files, photographs, scrapbooks, costume pieces, moving image and audio recordings, funding documentation, and personal materials. less

Lotus Music and Dance is a New York City-based performance and education center for traditional and indigenous performing art forms. The records chronicle the promotion and recording of rehearsals, shows, workshops, and events, and also include reference materials for a wide variety of traditional music and dance styles. The Lotus Music and Dance records consist of production files, publicity materials, photographs, and audio and moving image recordings. less

The Suzanne Farrell collection, spanning from 1880 to 2019, documents the life, career, and legacy of ballerina Suzanne Farrell. The collection is organized into seven series encompassing a wide range of materials, including press and publicity items, photographs, correspondence, writings, awards, artwork, and audiovisual recordings. The collection offers a comprehensive view of Farrell's influence on the ballet world, her personal and professional relationships, and her reflections on her career. less

Blondell Cummings (1944-2015) was a Black postmodern choreographer, dancer, video artist, teacher, and founder of the Cycle Arts Foundation artist collective. This collection, which dates from 1969 to 2011, illustrates her choreographic work, dance performances, and teaching career through audio and video recordings, photographs, press materials, and administrative files. The majority of the collection is video recordings, and the emphasis is on the visual and creative aspects of Cummings' career less

Gelsey Kirkland is a ballerina known for her career with New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theatre. The collection, dating from 1941 to 2012, chronicles the Kirkland's early life, ballet training, and her experiences as a principal dancer. Kirkland's collection consists of photographs, press materials, programs, correspondence, video recordings of performances and television appearances, and files related to her autobiographies. less

Edward Villella (born 1936) is an American ballet dancer and choreographer. His papers, dated 1916 to 2017, chronicle his life and career through awards, autobiographical writings, business correspondence, scripts, press and publicity material, photographs, and audio and moving image recordings. The collection represents Villella's career with the New York City Ballet, his later role as artistic director of the Miami City Ballet, and other related endeavors such as teaching and arts advocacy. less

Dr. Angela Bowen (1936-2018) was a Black dance educator, lesbian rights and feminist activist, writer, and professor. The collection, dated 1940 to 2016, illustrates Bowen's career as a dance school owner and teacher, and her impact on her students and community in New Haven, Connecticut. The Angela Bowen collection consists of concert programs, correspondence, dance programs, flyers, newspaper articles, and video recordings of performances. less

The Mexico Profundo "Light and Shadows" exhibit showcased photographs of traditional Mexican dances that occur during fiestas by Mexican photographers Roberto Aschentrupp, Abril Cabrera Aguilar, Diego Huerta, Mario Aguirre Mazón, and Octavio Nava in 2014. The collection, dating from 2007 to 2014, holds prints and wall text used in the exhibit staged at the reading room of The New York Library for the Performing Arts, additional shots not used in the exhibit, pictures of the opening, ephemera, and a review. less

The Eleo Pomare Dance Company was established in the 1950s by Colombian-American modern dance choreographer and dancer Eleo Pomare (1937-2008). The company was known for Pomare's politically-charged pieces about Black life. The company photographs date from around 1956 to the 2000s and consist of prints, contact sheets, and picture files of company members rehearsing and performing in studios and venues; headshots; publicity shots; and event shots. less

The Dance Theater of Nepal presents, preserves, and teaches Nepali performing arts and culture in the United States and internationally. The organization's collection, dating from 1996 to 2005, features business and administrative records, supporting cultural information, and photographs showcasing company members and performances. 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