Alf, Fé
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMD 90
1 document box 17 items in 11 folders
This collection of papers of
Fé Alf contains material from c.1928 in Germany to c.1933 in the United States. It contains primarily a diary and course papers written while
Alf was a...
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This collection of papers of
Fé Alf contains material from c.1928 in Germany to c.1933 in the United States. It contains primarily a diary and course papers written while
Alf was a student at the Wigman School in Germany, course papers written while she was a student at the Hagemann Schule in Hamburg, and lectures given at the Wigman School in New York. These materials were organized and identified by
Joan Griffin.
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Doubrovska, Felia, 1896-1981
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMD 93
2 document boxes (379 items in 51 folders)
The papers of Felia Doubrovska cover the period from c.1919 to the year of her death, 1981, and pertain to both her family and personal life and her professional career. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence: approximately 43...
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The papers of Felia Doubrovska cover the period from c.1919 to the year of her death, 1981, and pertain to both her family and personal life and her professional career. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence: approximately 43 letters and notes from Doubrovska, and 266 letters, cards, notes, telegrams to Doubrovska, with a small part of the correspondence to her mother (Valentina Dlouzhnevska) and to Vladimiroff. Of interest are 42 letters or notes from Mathilde Kshessinska and her husband the Grand Duke André, and 12 letters from Iurii (Yuri) Bakhrushin.
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Bennett, Isadora
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMD 22
2,123 approximate 310 folders items
The
Isadora Bennett Collection covers a thirty-two year span, 1940-72. During this time, she and associates
Richard Pleasant and
Donald Duncan handled the...
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The
Isadora Bennett Collection covers a thirty-two year span, 1940-72. During this time, she and associates
Richard Pleasant and
Donald Duncan handled the public relations accounts for dance artists around the world. The bulk of the Collection was generated between 1950-65.
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Code, Grant Hyde
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMD 8
69 folders ca. 500 items
Grant Hyde Code was a well-known writer and lecturer on theater and dance. A 1918 graduate of Harvard University, he, after World War I service, taught English at Harvard, Radcliff and other institutions of higher education. A former editor of...
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Grant Hyde Code was a well-known writer and lecturer on theater and dance. A 1918 graduate of Harvard University, he, after World War I service, taught English at Harvard, Radcliff and other institutions of higher education. A former editor of
Dance Observer,he was the founder and manager of the Brooklyn Museum Dance Center (1935-1938) which sponsored recitals and exhibitions. Mr. Hyde was also an actor, teacher, and public-relations person. Among his movie credits are
The Miracle Workerand
Serpico.He died, age 78, on June 28, 1974 in New York City. Holographs and typescripts, including letters, notes, miscellaneous documents, lectures, articles, chapters for a proposed book, and poetry. The material dates primarily from 1936-1941, when
Grant Code was working as an editor at the Brooklyn Museum and attempting to organize a dance program there. Many of the letters refer to his attempts to collaborate with the Federal Theater Project of the WPA in setting up a workshop for young choreographers.
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Berman, Eugene, 1899-1972
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMC-Res. 28
100 items
Holographs signed, and typescripts.
Loring, Eugene, 1914-
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMD 40
198 folders in 9 boxes approximately 440 items
The
Eugene Loring Papers document several aspects of
Loring's career from 1938 to 1981. He kept extensive notes related to his productions and teaching theories. He also often wrote and...
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The
Eugene Loring Papers document several aspects of
Loring's career from 1938 to 1981. He kept extensive notes related to his productions and teaching theories. He also often wrote and spoke about his philosophy of dance, transcripts of which are found in these papers. Being a trained musician,
Loring frequently notated his choreography on musical charts or scores. His teaching records include numerous ballet syllabi on six different levels of technique.
Loring also expressed himself through drawings, poetry, and prose found among his diaries and personal notes.
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Laing, Hugh
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMD 64
1.7 linear feet (4 document boxes, 1 portfolio 69 folders, 415 items)
The Hugh Laing Papers, c.1943-1988, contain almost nothing written by Laing himself, except for two brief undated notes to his mother (in her folder #10) and a letter to Isabel Brown (in her folder #12). The strength of the collection lies in the...
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The Hugh Laing Papers, c.1943-1988, contain almost nothing written by Laing himself, except for two brief undated notes to his mother (in her folder #10) and a letter to Isabel Brown (in her folder #12). The strength of the collection lies in the documentation of the Skinner family and Laing's birth and baptism, 18 letters from his father and mother (1956-1970), and in the outpouring of letters and notes to Laing from friends on the occasion of Antony Tudor's death in April 1987. (These letters include ones from Anne S. Palmer and Mollie Cook, relatives of Tudor). There are also examples of Laing's preliminary sketches for set and costume designs for Tudor ballets, including
Gala Performance, Judgment of Parisand
Pillar of Fire.
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Tamiris, Helen, 1905-1966
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMC-Res. 24
222 folders ca. 1000 items
The
Helen Tamiris Collection comprises holographs, typescripts, and memorabilia, which mostly reflect
Tamiris' choreographic work in the musical comedy and concert dance fields. The...
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The
Helen Tamiris Collection comprises holographs, typescripts, and memorabilia, which mostly reflect
Tamiris' choreographic work in the musical comedy and concert dance fields. The career of her husband,
Daniel Nagrin, and the development of their company, the Tamiris-Nagrin Dance Company, are also represented.
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Van Loon, Gerard Willem, 1911-
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMC-Res. 18
85 5 folders items
The bulk of the collection consists of personal correspondence between
Van Loon and the great German modern dancer
Harald Kreutzberg. Some letters from
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The bulk of the collection consists of personal correspondence between
Van Loon and the great German modern dancer
Harald Kreutzberg. Some letters from
Kreutzberg's sister
Mirza are also represented. Includes memorabilia.
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Lippincott, Gertrude Lawton
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMD 114
.5 linear feet (18 folders in 1 box)
Description: Memoirs and writings
Martha Graham Foundation for Contemporary Dance
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMD 27
34 folders (1 box)
Caccialanza, Gisella, 1914-
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMC-Res. 7
(ca. 122 items)
Berk, Fred, 1911-1980
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMD 41
273 Items in 75 folders
The
Fred Berk Papers primarily document
Berk's involvement in Jewish folk dance in the United States.
Berk wrote extensively on the subject. He also made...
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The
Fred Berk Papers primarily document
Berk's involvement in Jewish folk dance in the United States.
Berk wrote extensively on the subject. He also made instructional notes on the folk dances and kept address lists of people involved in his teaching seminars and organizations throughout the years.
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Astruc, Gabriel, 1864-1938
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMC-Res. 1
Correspondence including telegrams, copies of outgoing letters, and some typed transcripts of telegrams and letters, inventories, financial papers, notes and plans, clippings, programs, announcements, and drafts of contracts and reports relating...
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Correspondence including telegrams, copies of outgoing letters, and some typed transcripts of telegrams and letters, inventories, financial papers, notes and plans, clippings, programs, announcements, and drafts of contracts and reports relating primarily to the early activities of Sergei Diaghilev in bringing Russian ballet and opera to Western Europe. Between 1907 and 1913 Diaghilev collaborated with Astruc regarding the organization of his various artistic enterprises, including the Paris seasons of ballet and opera, negotiations for tours to the United States and South America, summer performances at Deauville in 1912, and a ballet season in Lyons in 1913. Documentation of the first Saison Russe presented by Diaghilev at the Théâtre du Chatelet in Paris in 1909 is particularly thorough and includes inventories of costumes and scenery for the works presented and a confidential report on the season which Astruc sent to Baron Frederiks, Chief Minister of the Russian Imperial Court. Astruc's dealings with Ida Rubinstein and Natasha Trouhanova regarding enterprises undertaken independent of Diaghilev are also documented.
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Hayward, Leland, 1902-1971
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMD 46
approximately 2330 items in 194 folders
The Leland Hayward Records of Ballets: U.S.A. document the years 1956-1962, before the company's inception until its demise, from the papers kept by the company's producer.
Massine, Leonide, 1896-1979
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMD 33
337 s and 8 boxes
The bulk of the
Leonide Massine Papers documents
Massine's professional and personal life from about 1940 to 1955, although some materials from before and after this period are included...
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The bulk of the
Leonide Massine Papers documents
Massine's professional and personal life from about 1940 to 1955, although some materials from before and after this period are included in the collection. The collection does not include any materials covering the period during which
Massine was a member of the Diaghilev ballet.
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Greco, José
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMD 112
48 linear feet (302 folders
The papers primarily document the administrative roles José Greco filled as director of Spanish dance companies and as head of the José Greco Foundation for Hispanic Dance.
Limón, José
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMD 24
664 folders and 21 boxes
The
José Limón Papers mainly document the personal life of the
Limóns during the 1930s and 1940s and the professional life of the
Limóns from the 1940s until...
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The
José Limón Papers mainly document the personal life of the
Limóns during the 1930s and 1940s and the professional life of the
Limóns from the 1940s until 1972. The
Pauline Lawrence Limón Collection [(S) *MGZMD 15] is intrinsically linked with the
José Limón Papers, and, as a whole, either collection can only be used effectively in conjunction with the other. In addition, the
Doris Humphrey Collection [(S) *MGZMC-Res. 3] includes letters written by
José Limón and by
Pauline Lawrence, as well as other material pertaining to them.
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Alum, Manuel
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMD 95
1 document box 24 items in 6 folders
Manuel Alum was born in Puerto Rico, but his dance training and his career as a modern dancer, teacher, choreographer and director took place mainly in the United States. He was a leading dancer and assistant director of the Paul Sanasardo Dance...
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Manuel Alum was born in Puerto Rico, but his dance training and his career as a modern dancer, teacher, choreographer and director took place mainly in the United States. He was a leading dancer and assistant director of the Paul Sanasardo Dance Company, and then founder and director of the Manuel Alum Dance Company. He also performed solo works and concerts, and choreographed for other companies. The most important materials in this collection pertain to works choreographed by
Manuel Alum: 2 notebooks and some additional pages which contain choreographic notes and corrections, background material, a few music notes and costume sketches, and some personal notes or memos. Also included in the collection are biographical materials and lists of works choreographed by
Alum, and a few items of correspondence and a contract.
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Bonfanti, Maria, 1847-1921
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMC-Res. 30
91 items 33 folders
Maria Bonfanti (1847-1921), an Italian born and trained ballerina, toured the United States and Europe with great success between 1869 and 1894. She also danced as prima ballerina of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, from 1885-1886 and maintained...
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Maria Bonfanti (1847-1921), an Italian born and trained ballerina, toured the United States and Europe with great success between 1869 and 1894. She also danced as prima ballerina of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, from 1885-1886 and maintained a ballet school in New York following her retirement. This collection, a gift of
Miss Bonfanti's granddaughter,
Gwendolyn Ruddel, consists primarily of personal and business correspondence, contracts, programs, playbills and sheet music (hand-written copies, specially compiled and arranged for Miss
Bonfanti's performances). It also includes posters for performances featuring Miss
Bonfanti; a photo scrapbook (*MGZEB-Res,
Bonfanti, Maria); and a clippings scrapbook (*MGZRS-Res,
Bonfanti, Maria). These items span nearly all of Miss Bonfanti's active career and document her impact on American dance and American theatre.
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Bonfanti, Maria
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMD 43
109 items 66 folders
This collection, a gift from the estate of
Gwendolyn Ruddell (
Miss Bonfanti's granddaughter), consists primarily of correspondence with her Italian relatives and accounts of her ballet...
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This collection, a gift from the estate of
Gwendolyn Ruddell (
Miss Bonfanti's granddaughter), consists primarily of correspondence with her Italian relatives and accounts of her ballet school in New York.
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Petipa, Marius, 1818-1910
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMD 82
1 document box
Cuevas, Georges, marquis de, 1885-1961
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMD 75
48 items 11 folders
Georges de Cuevas (1886-1961) was born in Santiago, Chile. He was working in Paris in the fashion industry in 1927 when he met and married Margaret Strong, a grand-daughter of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (His title was a Spanish one and was possibly...
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Georges de Cuevas (1886-1961) was born in Santiago, Chile. He was working in Paris in the fashion industry in 1927 when he met and married Margaret Strong, a grand-daughter of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (His title was a Spanish one and was possibly purchased after his marriage.) He became a U.S. citizen in 1940, and founded Ballet International in New York in 1944. His company was known for a period as the Grand Ballet de Monte Carlo, after 1950 as the Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas which was based in Paris, and after 1958 as the International Ballet of the Marquis de Cuevas. The company was disbanded in 1962, shortly after the death of de Cuevas. This collection consists of letters from
Georges, Marquis de Cuevas, to his friend
Sophie (Sofia, Zosia) Kochanski, wife of the violinist
Paul Kochanski. The letters describe his friendship with
Sophia, his feelings about his life and himself as he ages, his wife and his health. A 9-25-43 letter mentions his desire to create a ballet company, and letters of 7-31-48 and 3-20-49 discuss his ballet company.
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Moore, Lillian
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | *ZBD-157
329 folders in 7 boxes
The
Lillian Moore Dance Research Files represents the efforts of
Lillian Moore to document thoroughly the history of dance in the United States and Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth...
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The
Lillian Moore Dance Research Files represents the efforts of
Lillian Moore to document thoroughly the history of dance in the United States and Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Much, but not all, of her findings have been published in the numerous articles and books that
Ms. Moore wrote. The contents of the folders within this collection include holograph and typescript notes; chronologies of dancers' lives and dance works and/or performances; legal documents verifying births, deaths, and whereabouts of dancers at particular times; research correspondence with librarians, scholars, and descendants of dancers; photographs; photostats; and some holograph and typescript copies of articles written by
Lillian Moore.
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Moore, Lillian
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMD 20
6 boxes 105 folders
The collection is compiled into articles, reviews, and type-written copies of books that
Lillian Moore had written, 1947-1964; Correspondence (personal letters) to
Miss Moore and from...
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The collection is compiled into articles, reviews, and type-written copies of books that
Lillian Moore had written, 1947-1964; Correspondence (personal letters) to
Miss Moore and from her; and assorted clippings (newspaper) and articles about other dancers, choreographers, dance companies, etc., that other people wrote; most of her research being from the late 1800's to the mid-1960's. There are records, lists, a few photographs and plates, typed manuscripts, hand-written research notes and a diary, as well. Also included are pamphlets, brochures, flyers, clippings, programs, journals, and maps.
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Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMD 123
22 linear feet (466 folders in 38 document boxes; 3,381 Items)
This collection of the papers
Lincoln Edward Kirstein cover the period from ca. 1917 to 1994 and pertain to public and private aspects of his life. This collection compliments the papers given by
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This collection of the papers
Lincoln Edward Kirstein cover the period from ca. 1917 to 1994 and pertain to public and private aspects of his life. This collection compliments the papers given by
Kirstein to the Dance Collection in 1994 [*MGZMD 97].
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Fuller, Loie, 1862-1928
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMC-Res. 9
The Loie Fuller Collection mainly documents the last fifteen years of Miss Fuller's life and consists of personal and professional correspondence, performance contracts, production notes, sheet music, autobiographical writings, other writings by...
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The Loie Fuller Collection mainly documents the last fifteen years of Miss Fuller's life and consists of personal and professional correspondence, performance contracts, production notes, sheet music, autobiographical writings, other writings by Loie Fuller, material concerning
Maryhill Museum, legal documents, memorabilia, and photographs. The earliest piece of correspondence dates from 1902, although the collection does contain photographs from as early as 1862. The collection does not end with Loie's death in 1928 but includes performance contracts and correspondence through 1935 for
Les Ballets Fantastiques de Loie Fuller and some personal correspondence of Gabrielle Bloch, Loie's friend and the company's manager after her death.
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Fuller, Loie, 1862-1928
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMC-Res. 5
The bulk of this collection consists of the manuscript, in English, of the French translation of Loie Fuller's autobiography published by
F. Juven in Paris in
1908. In stylistically different English...
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The bulk of this collection consists of the manuscript, in English, of the French translation of Loie Fuller's autobiography published by
F. Juven in Paris in
1908. In stylistically different English from the manuscript, the French translation was published by
H. Jenkins in London in
1913. The French edition was called
Quinze ans de ma vie, and the English edition was called
Fifteen years of a dancer's life. The manuscript is arranged according to the order of the English edition and is lacking only chapter 11 and sections of chapters 6 and 21. It covers a few childhood events but primarily the events of the years from 1892-1907, including experiences with
Isadora Duncan (folder 20) who is not identified by name. The published English version of the autobiography loses some of the stylistic idiosyncrasies of the author's original manuscript. The published manuscript is followed by material, mostly anecdotal, and unpublished, meant for the autobiography; outline plans for a second volume and material which would have become a part of it; two essays, America and Americans and The Boston blue-stocking; a legal document releasing her from a contract with
Charles A. Hoyt and
Charles W. Thomas in 1892; programs, including a holograph paste-up of her first performance in Kiel, undated, and a flyer-program presenting
Gertrud Von Axen to Boston (?), undated; 12 photographs of Loie Fuller; 30 photographs of friends, admirers and fellow dancers, including Gertrud Von Axen and
Dick Fuller (possibly a niece); and a portfolio of 23 watercolors presented to her by students of the
Beaux-Arts on the occasion of her 550th performance in Paris, March 24, 1895.
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Horst, Louis
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMC-Res. 22
500 items 94 folders
Part of the bequest of the late
Louis Horst, this collection consists of five groups of manuscript materials: [Personal] Correspondence, Business Correspondence, Manuscripts, Records, and Miscellaneous items (mostly...
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Part of the bequest of the late
Louis Horst, this collection consists of five groups of manuscript materials: [Personal] Correspondence, Business Correspondence, Manuscripts, Records, and Miscellaneous items (mostly photostats of drawings and paintings). The personal correspondence, excepting a folder of letters from his mother to
Louis Horst ca. 1928-29, is primarily social and congratulatory, i.e., telegrams, birthday cards, postcards, and Christmas cards. The business correspondence is almost exclusively concerned with [UNK] Observer, the magazine
Mr. Horst founded in 1934 and edited until his death in 1964. The majority of the manuscripts, which comprise the bulk of the collection, are edited articles for Dance observer. There is, however, a notebook containing
Mr. Horst's classes in pre-classic dance forms and modern dance forms, and a second notebook, possibly kept by
Gertrude Lippincott, for a class in dance composition taught by
Mr. Horst in [UNK]. The records and miscellaneous items are scant representations of a career fully documented in: *MGZRS
Horst, Louis, 1884-1964. Scrapbooks, 1915-1959.
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Horst, Louis
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMD 57
116 items in 14 folders
The
Louis Horst Papers document his professional, and primarily his personal, life from 1962 to 1964. There are, however, letters and contractual information dating back as early as 1935 and 1959. The importance of...
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The
Louis Horst Papers document his professional, and primarily his personal, life from 1962 to 1964. There are, however, letters and contractual information dating back as early as 1935 and 1959. The importance of this collection lies in its personal nature. The appreciation, gratitude, and honor bestowed upon
Horst by students, contemporaries, supporters, and friends is repeated again and again in the correspondence written to him. The content consists mainly of correspondence to
Horst by friends, such as
Gertrude Lippincott, and dance associates, such as
Harriet Berg. There is also correspondence from relatives, primarily
May, his sister,
George, her husband, and
Betty,
Horst's wife.
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