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The Gala Performance to Save the Dance Collection photographs by photographer Fred Fehl document a benefit fundraiser performed to ensure the preservation and maintenance of the dance collection held at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Dance world icons such as George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Alvin Ailey, Margot Fonteyn, and Peter Martins were among the event contributors. less

The Radford Bascome collection contains over 8,600 negatives that documents dance from 1954 through 1958 with the majority of the collection representing New York City Ballet. Other companies included are American Ballet Theatre and Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, as well as performances from Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. Also included are Bascome's commercial and advertising work as well as some personal photographs. Brief biographies of Bascome's subjects are provided throughout the collection as well as correspondence from dancers whom he photographed. less